Family reunification at TSV Unterhaching: After Jonas Sagstetter, the returnee from Eltmann, the volleyball Bundesliga club has now signed his brother Benedikt from TSV Herrsching for the new season.
Unterhaching – The 19-year-old newcomer likes the fact that he will be on the field again in the future with his 21-year-old brother Jonas, as he used to be at TG-VfL Landshut, their home club and ASV Dachau: “A lot nice feeling, because more than just sport connects us. I look forward to working with him. We also worked together successfully in the sand. "
Benedikt Sagstetter, with Jonas multiple German junior champion in the beach volleyball version, can also point to a beach success with another Hachinger: in 2016, only 15 at the time, he became an outsider in a duo with the then 16-year-old Eric Paduretu German U18 runner-up.
The fact that these two are now together in the Unterhachinger squad for the indoor Bundesliga is at least as extraordinary as the brotherly Sagstetter connection, because both Paduretu (now 20) and Benedikt Sagstetter are feeders and with Severin Brandt (his brother Niklas in the future as well as an outside attacker for the TSV) there is another actor available for this position.
Patrick Steuerwald, who once made the leap into the national team as a Hachinger setter and is now part of the TSV coaching staff, explains the triple cast for the role of playmaker: “Severin is only 16 and he was given the right to play two games at VCO Munich from the start. He's training and growing with us and I'm confident we'll see him out on the field this season too. But first and foremost, Eric and Benni will fight for the position in the pass. "
Benedikt Sagstetter is hoping for more missions than in Herrsching, where he moved from Dachau before 2019. At the Ammersee he did not get the train as requested. "After a year with little play, I hope to get back on the field in Haching," says the newcomer, who describes himself as a "gamer who finds solutions quickly". The 19-year-old, who starts studying at the same time as the season, allows himself a certain initial phase due to the external conditions: “The hall in Herrsching is significantly lower than the Bayernwerk Sportarena. I have to adjust myself again as a player, but that will work. "
Steuerwald is also convinced of this: “Benni was in Herrsching in the shadow of Johannes Tille, who is also a German national player. He has already proven his potential, and he also fits in with our 'Local Heroes'. "Benedikt Sagstetter himself can be enthusiastic about this concept of a troupe that consists primarily of young talent with a regional focus:" TSV Unterhaching will be on next season be a young, cool team that has nothing to lose. "