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Bundesliga Manager Suspended for One Game After Leaving Hotel to Buy Toothpaste

Heiko Herrlich, the manager of Bundesliga club Augsburg, will miss his team's first game back since the league halted play after breaking the club's quarantine rules.

Just days prior to his team's Saturday match against Wolfsburg, Herrlich left the team's hotel to buy toothpaste at a local supermarket, the team said in a statement.

"I made a mistake by leaving the hotel," Herrlich said in a statement, per the BBC. "Even though I have followed all hygiene measures both when leaving the hotel and otherwise, I cannot undo this.