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Volleyball: The end of the Grafinger ghost games

2022-02-26T06:35:10.910Z


Volleyball: The end of the Grafinger ghost games Created: 02/26/2022, 07:30 Ready to fight back in front of their own spectators: Grafing's block with Marco Vogel (left) and Johannes Becker, an ex-Mimmenhausener. © Photo: Stefan Roßmann Life and atmosphere are finally returning to the spectator stands in the Grafinger Jahnsporthalle! For the Bundesliga home game on Saturday evening (7 p.m.) aga


Volleyball: The end of the Grafinger ghost games

Created: 02/26/2022, 07:30

Ready to fight back in front of their own spectators: Grafing's block with Marco Vogel (left) and Johannes Becker, an ex-Mimmenhausener.

© Photo: Stefan Roßmann

Life and atmosphere are finally returning to the spectator stands in the Grafinger Jahnsporthalle!

For the Bundesliga home game on Saturday evening (7 p.m.) against the supposed top team from Mimmenhausen, the TSV volleyball men can again rely on the live support of their fans and sell tickets in compliance with the so-called 3G rule with mask requirements.

BY JULIAN BETZL

Grafing

– "It's an important step for us and everyone is looking forward to the spectators.

There will also be the beloved volleyball and cool drinks again", the anticipation for the end of the Grafinger Geisterspiele can be heard not only from Grafing's team manager Johannes Oswald.

"It would be cool if we got three figures and the fans really escalated," coach Benedikt Doranth hopes for "active" support from the ranks.

"On the sand and in the snow, I've recently experienced that many spectators don't even know how to cheer loudly after two years."

In the last three involuntarily free weeks, Doranth had to struggle less with motivational difficulties than with corona failures.

In some cases, four people trained after escaping the wave of infection for so long.

"After this long break with five corona cases, I'm excited to see how we'll come back." Libero Marvin Primus and setter Tim Aust will have to be represented against Mimmenhausen by Korbinian Hess and Jannik Birkholz.

"Jannik has only played two or three games, a full game is definitely good for him," Doranth also reveals that, if necessary, they "tried out a few things during the week".

In view of the 0:3 lesson at Lake Constance and the second-best points quotient in the league, Grafing, bottom of the league, has little to lose in the duel with Mimmenhausen.

"But with the fans behind me, I'm expecting a closer game than in the first leg," the TSV coach reluctantly recalls, "a real smack and our game with the least chance of the season."

Led by the first-division-experienced setter Federico Cipollone and their ex-national player on the diagonal, Christian Pampel, "unlike the others, they pull through to the end," says Doranth.

Therefore, the "realistic" Grafinger goal is to play for a set win with a weaker line-up of the guests.

"The lads can play freely and show the fans what they can do." Anyone who doesn't make it into the hall can follow the game live on sportdeutschland.tv.

Source: merkur

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