The 21-year-old midfielder Tom Zimmigart is leaving VfR Garching after three years and moving to Austria in the second division for FC Dornbirn.
- Up to the U17, Tom Zimmer went through all of the Bayern Munich junior teams .
- Via the U19 of SpVgg Unterhaching , the midfielder made the leap into the men's area at VfR Garching .
- After 65 appearances in the Bavarian regional league , the 21-year-old is now moving to the second Austrian league for FC Dornbirn .
Garching / Dornbirn - Born in Koblenz, Tom Zimmigart came to FC Bayern as a little boy and went through all of the record champions' junior teams up to the U17 . With the goal of 'professional football' firmly in mind, the midfielder then moved to SpVgg Unterhaching . From the game association, he then made the jump to the Regionalliga Bayern at VfR Garching . After three years and 65 missions, the 'Chapter VfR' for the 21-year-old is now over and he is moving to Austria in the second division , to FC Dornbirn .
VfR Garching: The financial situation made staying there unthinkable
Due to the difficult financial situation, the regional league team VfR Garching currently has to get by with a limited budget. So it came to a tough austerity course, by which many well-known players had to leave the VfR. Tom Zimmer Various also felt the strained financial situation at VfR. He would "certainly have liked to stay in Garching, but the financial situation simply made this impossible," said the 21-year-old , who wants to live completely independently of his parents for the new season. "With the conditions in Garching, this would simply not have been possible."
Contact with FC Dornbirn from Austria came about through the midfielder's agency . The move to Austria “felt right from the start, because FC Dornbirn offers great opportunities for further development in sport”. The 21-year-old wants to "take the next sporty step and at the same time stand on his own two feet".
Tom Zimmer Schwier: "At FC Dornbirn we train under professional conditions"
The FC Dornbirn was in season 2018/19 in the second league ascended, could in the past season with 34 points , the class stopped and now faces his second season second division. The main goal for the coming season is “first of all clearly to stay in the league. However, we don't just want to collect points every week to stay in the league, we also want to play attractive football ”. On a personal level, one of Zimmer's goals is to get as much playing time as possible and to get used to the professional level.
He sees FC Dornbirn as the perfect address to take the step into the professional sector, because “they train under professional conditions there. The prerequisites and framework conditions are of high quality. ”So the team has“ in addition to training twice a day and great places, also individual athletic trainers and fitness areas with swimming pool and sauna ”.
Tom Zimmer Various: "The first impressions of the environment and the team are consistently positive"
For just under a week, Zimmigart has been in his new adopted home in Austria and his first impressions of the team and the environment are consistently positive. “Everything is great, I'm well received. With Maurice Mathis , I already knew someone from the team, which makes integration that much easier for me. He shows me a lot and helps me to find my way around, ”says Zimmigart .
On September 11th, the 2nd league in Austria is to start and Tom Zimmigart will start living his dream of professional football in Dornbirn .
( DF )