FC Lengdorf: Unbeaten in eight games

Created: 04/13/2022, 10:00 am

By: Dieter Priglmeir

Sporting director Mathias Holzner (right) and the FCL kickers are confident about the future and also agreed on the elections.

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Things are going well again at FC Lengdorf.

And a new assistant coach is also in sight.

Lengdorf – That can only be good for the Lengdorf offensive.

Franco Soave has a new assistant coach in Dominic Fumelli, who has previously scored for SV Buch.

At the department meeting, sports director Mathias Holzner did not want to reveal his name.

But now it's leaked.

Fumelli is currently interim coach at his hometown club SV Buch, which he is helping out (we reported).

But he has also played for FC Finsing in the district league.

Is that why the 32-year-old is looking forward to working with Franco Soave?

"The two years we spent together in Finsing have shown that we harmonize well both personally and on the pitch.

I'm sure that it will also work well as a coaching team," says Fumelli.

"Also, Franco has already seen a lot in his career as a player and coach, so I can definitely learn a lot and take something with me."

New assistant coach: Dominic Fumelli is moving from Buch to Lengdorf after the season.

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As a coach, he looks forward to training with many players and the competition.

"I've missed that a little in recent years," says Fumelli.

"Apart from that, I will support Franco wherever I can."

As a goal, he states a "secured place in midfield, always facing upwards".

As a player, he probably won't take off immediately, he suspects.

“I've played very few games this season due to various injuries.

That's why the focus is on getting really fit.

If I can do that over a longer period of time, I definitely have the confidence to be able to help the team in the district league.”

And what do the books say that he is now going to the neighbor Lengdorf of all places?

“There will certainly be a few in the club who cannot understand it like that.

But the majority of the team – and that's the most important thing for me – will understand this step,” Fumelli replies.

Holzer also promises “an internal top solution” for the second team.

For the retiring Volkmar Schrafen (we reported) Stefan Ortner will take over in the coming season.

The sports director kept his review relatively short.

After “the most bitter end of the season in the past”, as the sports director described the end of the season due to corona and the rating based on the quotient regulation, the team initially went through a difficult time, but got over it well.

However, Holzner sees the FCL well prepared for the final sprint.

“Participation in training is very good.

There's a lot of tension in it.” That also pays off.

The Lengdorfers have been unbeaten for eight games, and the top teams from Finsing, Attaching, Eitting and Walpertskirchen also had a hard time.

The FCL soccer players, on the other hand, have had a difficult time.

After the relegation of SG Lengdorf/Hörgersdorf from the district league, the shortage of personnel increased, reported sports director Vena Quast.

"We could only keep the team up with players from the B-Youth." In the end, the only way left was to withdraw from the district league before the winter break and form a three-man SG with TSV St. Wolfgang.

"We formed them for a year and a half," explains Quast.

"The long-term goal is to have our own team again." And the FCL has every reason to be confident, because with 85 girls' players they are number one in the district, according to Quast.

An engine of the Lengdorfer girls football will no longer be there in the future.

After twelve years, Markus Schorer gave up his position as deputy youth leader for health reasons.

"I'm empty, nothing works anymore," he said at the meeting.

In any case, something had to be done in the Lengdorfer youth work.

Schorer: "Five years of standstill, nothing is moving forward."

In fact, there will be a complete cut in the football youth work at the FCL, because youth leader Ralf Mayer is no longer a candidate.

As reported, the second head of department, Dietmar Fischer, is temporarily taking over this position, supported by Claudia Altmann and, more recently, by Quast, who handed over the sports management of the women's team to Sandra Lechner.