On, on and on: The next hammer game for ASV Habach

Created: 05/06/2022Updated: 05/06/2022 13:38

By: Andreas Mayr

The jubilation should continue: After their 1-0 win in Lenggries last weekend, the Habachers want to get three more important points in the promotion race in their home game against Deisenhofen.

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After the duel in Lenggries, ASV Habach continues with the top games in district league 1: Now it's against the top favorites FC Deisenhofen II.

Habach – The engine roars through the phone.

Uli Feigl, 66, is mowing the lawn, the sacred Habach lawn.

He'll be in touch in an hour, he says into the receiver.

It's just after noon when you hear the department head of the ASV again.

He had just been over there, at the square, and had prepared everything.

For the weekend.

For the next top game against Deisenhofen.

For the season finale in the district league, the most exciting that the Oberland can remember.

"You always think about it.

It's fun," says Feigl.

His team is the constant in the circle of the greats, but also the eternal first loser when it comes to promotion to the district league.

Below is an excerpt from the most recent tale of woe: 2017 third, 2018 third, 2019 defeat in the second round of relegation, 2021 fourth.

Nobody has come so close to the district league in recent years without ever having experienced it.

"Climbing up is more difficult than stopping," says Feigl.

Who would want to contradict him after these experiences?

ASV Habach was recently close to promotion

But the chances don't run out.

This season, the ASV is up there again and can definitely still make it to second place on its own.

"The last chance," says the division head.

The pillars of his team are beginning to age.

To speak in metaphors: The train towards the district league doesn't leave for Habach - rather it falls apart.

This time everything is even more dramatic.

The game plan gives the final sprint a special flavor.

The ASV has to work off the best opponents one after the other.

Lenggries (1-0) last week, now on Saturday the U23s from FC Deisenhofen (3 p.m.) and at the very end TSV Murnau.

Every week a final that really is one.

A defeat and Habach tumbles down the slope again.

"When you know that every game is a final, it's exciting to the max," says Feigl.

There must be some advantage to having experienced all of this in different forms.

Other teams would have been broken by a relegation madness like in 2019. Just this year, the association pushed in a second round of promotion.

Habach lost to Schwaig, now third in the national league.

"We were the idiots that year," says Feigl.

But in Habach the world kept turning.

In the evenings, people still meet up at the “Trödler”.

At the regulars' table, people are still asking who will be out at the weekend or who will score the goals.

That's not normal.

Uli Feigl on the team spirit in Habach.

The village didn't drop its crew no matter how many times they fell.

"They're totally with us," the division head noticed.

There is hardly anything like Habach, where the ASV is the pride of the village.

When Uli Feigl sees what is being paid at other locations, he refers his own kickers to the currency that is served in Habach: the community.

"That's not normal.

What we have, no one else has.

That's what makes it so that we can add two or three percent more."

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They will need this boost, especially against Deisenhofen, a mixture of talented youth players and former national and Bavarian league kickers.

They want to wrestle down the Bayernliga reserve.

A few years ago, they may have been "a bit too green," says Feigl.

But the experience has steeled her.

"The decisive point is: We are a village club that never gives up." Uli Feigl tackles the last three games with an unprecedented ease.

The really important question of the future has been answered.

His trainer tandem of Markus Vogt and Andreas Hoiß will continue next year.

"The two are great with the team." The ASV decides for itself in which league they can compete next season.

Feigl sees it relaxed.

You have to win all the games, that makes things easy.

"I'm not afraid,