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Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund stars, take pay cut at the Covid-19 crisis.

Players and directors of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, agreed to take pay cuts. Both German Teams said this step was to help the other employees at the club financially at the time of coronavirus crisis.

Players of Union Berlin, 11th in the Bundesliga, announced that they will go entirely without their salaries. Borussia Monchengladbach's players were the first in the country to offer to forgo wages.Bayern players will take a 20% pay cut but Dortmund players will "waive part of their salaries".

There has been no Bundesliga action since 8 March as the coronavirus outbreak popular sport across the world. The entire first team squad at team Berlin said that they had made the decision to go without their wages due to an "extraordinary and difficult situation".There was no timescale on how long they would be without pay. "The first football team department has agreed to waive their wages," the club said in a statement on Wednesday. "The club's managers and employees have also agreed to part-time working arrangements, which will also result in wage cuts. At the same time, we are pulling together to prepare for a full-time resumption of Bundesliga operations at any time."

Last week, Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski and his wife Anna was contributed 1m euros (£920,000) to fight the disease. Team-Member Leon Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich also set up a fund called "We Kick Corona" to combat the pandemic and contributed 1m euros between them. Wednesday, German authorities announced there had been 31,554 cases of coronavirus in the country and 149 deaths.