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The reward of decades of work - the soccer players of TSV Peiting are at the top with both teams

2020-12-04T03:30:46.079Z


Football operations are currently suspended. The soccer players at TSV Peiting are satisfied with the season so far. They lead their league with both teams.


Football operations are currently suspended.

The soccer players at TSV Peiting are satisfied with the season so far.

They lead their league with both teams.

Peiting

- The footballers of TSV Peiting are very happy when they look at the table.

Both the first team in the Allgäu district league and the second in the district class overwinter in first place in the table.

“It was about time,” says Theda Smith-Eberle with reference to the first team, which came second three times and third once in the past four seasons.

The ascent should finally come.

It would only be the logical consequence of a steady development over the past few years.

"The club does not belong in the county league," says Smith-Eberle, who has been running women's and girls' football in Peiting since the mid-1990s.

Until 2006, the TSV women played in the national league.

From then on it was always downhill.

Peiting stayed in the district league for five seasons before moving down to the district league in 2014 after three years in the district league.

“A lot of very good players stopped because they got pregnant, were injured or for reasons of age,” said Smith-Eberle.

The team had to find itself anew.

And now she's done it.

A new tribe of seven or eight players has formed who “can stay together for another ten years”.

"The decades of work with young talent pays off," says the head of the soccer team.

The young people are better integrated and can more easily gain a foothold in the adult sector.

“That makes itself felt.” But Smith-Eberle also says: “Talent is good, but hard work makes up the majority.”

Big training diligence at TSV Peiting

Lisa Amberg is a prime example of this.

The attacker leads the Allgäu district league's list of goalscorers with 21 goals from ten games.

She is one of the guarantors of Peitinger's success.

“Lisa is amazing,” enthuses Smith-Eberle.

"She just plays from her gut, but has learned a lot in recent years." What makes her stand out?

Amberg doesn't miss a single training session.

But your teammates don't let the units slide either.

“We are in the fortunate position to have the players in both teams at the weekend who also trained,” reports Smith-Eberle.

Training at TSV Peiting is currently on hold, as is the case everywhere else.

Now and then Smith-Eberle meets the players in groups of two while jogging.

The motivation among adults is unbroken.

The 56-year-old is more concerned about the offspring.

“It hurts when children suffer because they are not allowed to play sports.” There are currently 22 female soccer players in the U17 group.

The youngest is twelve years old.

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Theda Smith-Eberle heads women's and girls' football at TSV Peiting.

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Since, unlike the boys, the girls did not break off their season but continued it, two years will leave the youth sector in the coming summer and move up to the women.

"Then there are eight players left," reports Smith-Eberle.

Problem: Due to the corona pandemic, the acquisition of new female soccer players with trial training sessions in the summer was canceled.

The consequences of the pandemic for women's football will only really be felt in two or three years.

Until then, TSV would like to garnish the XXL season with successes.

A one and a half round will be played in both leagues and will continue in April.

The first Peitinger team goes into the remaining matches with the ideal starting position of ten wins from ten games.

“The balance speaks for the team and the coach,” says Smith-Eberle.

Second Peitinger team has never been a champion

The trainer is Michael Platz from Windach, called Mitsch by everyone in Peiting.

He took over the team at the start of the season in September 2019 and actually only wanted to stay one season.

The fact that it is now going longer than expected does not change anything.

The coach stays until the end of the season.

The situation is trickier for the second Peitinger team, which is “a bit surprising” at the top in the district class.

However, TSV has played three more games than Bernbeuren's pursuer.

"Bernbeuren has the advantage of being a first team that always competes with the same line-up," says Smith-Eberle.

"For us, everything depends on the game dates of the first team." That depends on which player is used in which team and can help out if necessary.

“A championship would be nice.” That has never happened before for a second team in Peiting, and consequently no double promotion either.

In 2021 the Peitingen soccer players have the chance to reward themselves for the effort and to return to where they belong at their own discretion.

Source: merkur

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