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Landesliga promotion: VSG volleyball players hang in the air

2020-04-06T12:09:46.349Z


After the broken district league season, VSG Isar-Loisach had hoped to be able to climb the green table without winning a relegation. But at the moment it looks as if the Bavarian Volleyball Association would prefer other clubs.


After the broken district league season, VSG Isar-Loisach had hoped to be able to climb the green table without winning a relegation. But at the moment it looks as if the Bavarian Volleyball Association would prefer other clubs.

Wolfratshausen - The VSG Isar-Loisach has been brutally tortured in the past two weeks. Only this message, which spread hope: The new player's pass arrived. Alexander Beck (32), formerly a steller at the third division club TSV Friedberg and most recently a player coach at the TSV Aichach (district league), has been training with the team for two months and was part of the Bayern selection in his youth. "Another reinforcement," says team manager Bernhard Wilhelm regarding the relegation.

A few days later, the association sent another letter, an electronic one. The solution that the officials developed in the course of the corona crisis and sent to the clubs from the regional league to the district class may have been meant nicely. It provides for many promoters all over Bavaria. Even those who didn't expect it at all. To put it in a nutshell, anyone who - theoretically - could still ascend is allowed to go up. Only a small group grossly disadvantages the regulation: clubs that have qualified for the relegation but can no longer be first. The association denies them promotion and sends a symbolic message: “Bad luck.” Among them is Isar-Loisach, second in the District League East District of Upper Bavaria. Wilhelm, and he expresses the disappointment on behalf of coach Nabil Habboubi, for the whole team, even for the whole club: "We pulled the whole ass card."

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Bernhard Wilhelm (team manager of VSG Isar-Loisach)

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The way to the national league seems cursed. How else should you explain this truck load of bad luck? The VSG failed twice in three years in the relegation. In both tournaments, two regulars dropped out. Last year, very bitter story, hit the men shortly before the set point for the decisive 3-1 over Niederviehbach II hectic, panic, nervousness. They lost 2: 3, did not rise. Wilhelm didn't know if the team would ever recover from the events. "I was extremely scared." But the players digested this amazingly well, put in a good season again, and were the only club to beat the new champions Mühldorf II, the over-team with the top talents from the forge of ex-international player Michael Mayer (55 caps). Now the message of horror. "We didn't just have plague, we had plague and cholera," says Wilhelm about the past 36 months.

Not even the good contacts that the Loisach valley maintain in the scene paid off. Wilhelm called Petra Stumpf, the BVV game manager. Lukas von Stülpnagel, the middle blocker, tried it with Tom Gailer, employee of the BVV office. District keeper Sebastian König from Bad Tölz also got her on the phone. But the responses of the officials were alike - sometimes down to the word. "It was a unanimous decision, knowing that the relegation would drop," says the team manager. The association had tried everything and could now only hope for the goodwill of the association's superiors.

A few secret passages in the two-part Landesliga may still open. If there are fewer than nine teams in a group, “they will be given priority”. It is not yet possible to estimate how likely this scenario is. The waiting will drag on until the end of April. The BVV has handed out a flood of tickets for the Landesliga. In Lower Bavaria two, including one for VC Eitting, which VSG had "swept off the field" 3: 0 last season in the relegation, as Wilhelm says. In the district of Swabia alone, four clubs have the right of promotion. One could only appeal to the reason of the teams to refrain from jumping into the national league, says Wilhelm. "They fall on the nose." A year ago, the VSG competed in a preparation tournament for the Swabian ascent and won the competition - including success through the hosts. In addition, the volleyball players beat various other national league teams. "We can keep up there," emphasizes the team manager.

The VSG players see yet another door. The association has increased the fees for higher-class clubs enormously: entry fee, fines for missing youth teams, things like that. The BVV demands 80 percent more, Wilhelm learned. He has already heard from two regional league teams that their payment practices are not the best, and their appetite for another year in the regional league has dropped sharply. The VSG would step in willingly. "We'll be there immediately. Payment is not an issue, it is being handled, ”says Wilhelm.

If all the efforts are not rewarded, the VSG starts its next attack for the new season. Your spokesman has already identified a "now more than ever" mentality. The team is currently training together on the Internet. Wilhelm emphasizes: "The boys are really in the mood."

Source: merkur

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