Bundesliga boosts profile as soccer-starved fans tune in


FILE PHOTO: FC Bayern players with protective masks leave a bus for the training ground, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany, May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

MUNICH (Reuters) - Germany's Bundesliga will attract legions of new armchair fans around the world this weekend when it becomes the first of Europe's major soccer leagues to resume after a two-month shutdown due to the coronavirus.

In normal circumstances, the German game, dominated in recent seasons by Bayern Munich, lacks the marketing pull of England's Premier League or Spain's La Liga, which boasts the world's two biggest clubs in terms of revenue - Barcelona and Real Madrid.

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