Eintracht Frankfurt chairman Heribert Bruchhagen is not looking forward to the upcoming Bundesliga winter break because it is too short. Like last season, the Bundesliga will take a break for less than four weeks this year while six weeks used to be the norm.

And Bruchhagen feels it is wrong to make the teams play again at the end of January, through the most difficult winter months, when there is no major tournament next summer.

“It is a joke that we don’t play between mid-May and mid-August,” he said.

“May and June are the best months for football.”

The German Football League set the dates for the season in agreement with the clubs, but also with restrictions imposed by UEFA due to the international football calendar which sees the Champions League final as the culmination of the 2010/11 season on May 28.

The Bundesliga ends a fortnight earlier on May 14 with the DFB-Pokal final taking place a week later.

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