Vincenzo Grifo, who changed from 1899 Hoffenheim to SC Freiburg, is not allowed to play in the duel between the two Bundesliga clubs because of a contract clause. This confirmed the sports club on request.
As a result, on September 15, Freiburg will enter Sinsheim without a Grifo. Previously, among others, the "kicker" and Sky had reported. In the second leg of the football professional against his former club but again run up, it was said by the club.
The 26-year-old Italian had moved from Hoffenheim to SC in the previous week for seven million euros, after he had already borrowed in the preseason. A similar clause had already existed in the loan business.
"Hoffenheim insisted on this regulation, it was part of the loan conditions," Freiburg's sports director Jochen Saier had said at the time to the "kicker". In the TSG Grifo had under the new coach Alfred Schreuder recently failed to prevail and was not in two league games in a row in the squad.