At SV Pullach they feel obliged to bring in an attacker and an assistant coach after several injuries.
Pullach - SV Pullach starts from position 16 in the remaining Bayern League season, the goal that Robert Bäumel defines for his ravens is obvious: "We want to bypass the relegation." To be prepared for the relegation battle, wishes the SVP manager is still an offensive reinforcement in view of current failures.
The ravens have already changed a lot in terms of personnel in the summer. So Luigi de Palma, the second goalkeeper, said goodbye. For him, Kaito Fuss, a very young home-grown man, was pulled up into the Bayernliga squad. “He is from the older A-youth class. We want to introduce him to the first team, he has the talent, ”said Bäumel.
Altstadt and Marseiler return to the SVP
Now de Palma was not only an active keeper, but also a goalkeeper coach. But here, too, a replacement has already been found on Gistlstrasse, an old friend in Carsten Altstadt: The 29-year-old was the goalkeeper at SVP from 2015 to 2017 and was number two with the team behind ex-professional Michael Hofmann Bayern League champions .
And Bäumel can announce another return: Left-back Yanis Marseiler has signed on again at Gistlstrasse after a year with regional league club VfR Garching. "He wanted to try the leap into the Regionalliga, but had only a few appearances and now wants to attack again in the Bayernliga." Marseiler is probably more than just a replacement for Jan Penic, who also left Pullach before the restart.
Pullach urgently needs an assistant
Because co-trainer Niko Sternberg does not continue either, an assistant is being sought for Alexander Benede to coach the team from the sidelines. The player-coach himself is namely "an integral part of the team", as Bäumel emphasizes.
Although Benede, whose experience as head of the defense seems essential, was not on the field in the first tests, there were other reasons: The 31-year-old missed the 2: 1 (1: 1) at TuS Geretsried for family reasons : 5 (1: 3) at SE Freising he wanted to see himself from the outside.
The SVP officials are only marginally interested in the results against the two national league clubs. In Geretsried, Bäumel saw "a decent game in spite of the heat, in which our stamina was already up to par". Martin Bauer also celebrated a successful comeback: The convalescent, who would have missed the spring with a knee injury, scored after an early deficit to make it 1-1 before Marco Kammergruber made the final score. "Fortunately, Martin is fully there again," said Bäumel happily.
Intensive preparation & staff shortages on the offensive
The defeat in Freising, in which Alexander Jobst temporarily reduced it to 1: 2, doesn't make the manager nervous either: “We had trained five times in the week before, and we even had a lot on the evening before the game, which took place in the morning intense unity. Everyone was in a hole, physically and mentally. "
In the third test, against the district division BCF Wolfratshausen, there was then, for the first time with Benede in an active role, a 4-1 (2-0) victory. Özgür Sütlü scored twice (14th, 33rd), after the connection (50th) Nureddin El Sayed (74th) and Leon Ritter (77th) increased.
Despite the four hits, the offensive causes Bäumel some concerns, because in addition to Michael Hamberger's departure (we reported), Gilbert Diep (chipped cartilage) and Max Zander (inner ligament damage) injured two regular candidates on the knee. "They will be out for several weeks," fears Bäumel, who is therefore looking for an attacker: "We will keep our eyes and ears open and would take the opportunity to get someone if it happens."
BY UMBERTO SAVIGNANO