Player-coach Franco Soave extends his contract and is happy about reinforcement from Hörlkofen.
Lengdorf– Simon Nussrainer will play for FC Lengdorf in the future.
The 19-year-old is moving from the A-classic SV Hörlkofen to second place in the regional league.
Anton Bauer announced this.
Lengdorf's head of department had two more news that go beyond the current season and that concern the coaches of the two men's teams
Franco Soave will also be the player-coach of FC Lengdorf in 2021/22.
“I'm glad and happy that he is continuing,” says Bauer and adds: “No matter how the season goes on.” After all, the FCL has had an even crazier season than everyone else.
For most of them, completely surprising, Soave had led the Lengdorfer to the top of the district league.
His team was nine points ahead of the 2019/20 winter break.
Then the corona pandemic followed and a weak phase during the restart.
Lengdorf lost the championship lead, but is still level on points with leader Langengeisling.
An exciting final spurt should be certain.
Soave, who also led FC Finsing into the district league, remembers his beginnings at FCL in July 2019. "After my first nervous introduction to the team, I declared my personal goal to be in the top three." He was back then was ridiculed by some players, he says.
"We are currently in second place and played a fantastic first half of the season."
A major factor in his early extension is "that my team is an absolutely willing and very ambitious team that has developed into a powerful regional league team".
Participation in training was another point that showed him "how much passion this team has put in".
But the 38-year-old is also ambitious.
“Anyone who knows me knows that fitness is very important to me, and not every team can handle it in this form.
The two preparations showed me that the boys want to play football successfully and have always gone to their pain limits. ”He thinks the training and playing conditions in Lengdorf“ are excellent because of the facility and our hardworking groundskeeper.
It's a lot of fun here to be able to work in peace. ”That is why the contract extension was purely a matter of form for him.
And then followed a declaration of love from the Italian, who was trained in the FC Bayern youth team and who played Oliver Pocher at a charity game of the McFit Allstars in front of 55,000 spectators in the Veltins Arena: “FC Lengdorf - that's district league romance.
If someone wants to play football ambitiously but doesn't want to do without a comfortable club life, then we've come to the right place. "
Football romance - you know that from the Ruhr area.
Volkmar Schrafen once played in the district league in Oberhausen.
He has been living in Lengdorf for 22 years.
"He is at almost all of the club's games and has also been the AH player-coach for a number of years," says Bauer and says.
“He's a football crazy in the best sense of the word.” In the coming season, the 53-year-old will take over the second team as coach.
It was actually planned a year ago.
But then came the corona pandemic, and player-coach Michael Fugmann added a seventh to his six years.
At the end of the season, however, it will definitely be over, Fugmann announced.
"In my free time I enjoy life without compulsory football, a lot of time for my wife and our children and everything else that was not possible or only possible to a limited extent in the past decades."
His sporting highlights in the past coaching years?
“The derby victories against the first teams from Kirchasch, Isen and St. Wolfgang in point games,” says the 39-year-old and adds: “In general, it was a great time as a coach.
Big compliments to the team, which always pulled along.
It was just fun with the boys. ”And one thing is certain already because of the table situation: FCL 2 will also play in the A-Class in the coming season.
That's where Simon Nussrainer comes from.
“He already trained with us in the summer.
It's nice that it works now, ”said football boss Bauer happily.
Coach Soave talked long and extensively with the HSV talent.
The FCL is convinced of the qualities of the attacking midfielder.
Incidentally, it is the only change in the district league squad, as Bauer announced.
