"The hut will burn in Palzing!"

Created: 05/25/2022, 08:00

It's all about staying up: Coach Gediminas Sugzda (left) shows his SCBV team the way.

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DISTRICT LEAGUE RELEGATION In the first leg, SVBV coach Gedi Sugzda trusts his "successful team".

Vaterstetten/Palzing – For one day, the unusual and curious rescue jump from the direct relegation ranks to the relegation ranks could be celebrated and enjoyed.

Since Monday, coach Gedi Sugzda and his football men at SC Baldham-Vaterstetten have been “full of focus on Palzing”.

Sugzda has already received some information about the twelfth place in the district league north season.

"But that doesn't mean that there will be any major changes to our successful team over the past few weeks." At the latest when the first leg in Palzing (Ampertalstrasse 2, 85406 Zolling) kicks off this Thursday at 5 p.m., tactical discipline will be decisive for Sugzda's success.

"It goes without saying that every player is highly motivated when the hut is on fire in Palzing."

Coach Summerer expects up to 600 spectators

Since some SCBV players and fans are less familiar with the 50-kilometer journey via the A9 to the north of Freising, it is worth talking to Sugzda's counterpart about the SVP.

"We're looking forward to the relegation and 500 to 600 spectators," says Sepp Summerer.

"Because no one in the club environment at the winter break expected that we would still make it into the relegation from last place, these two games are another highlight for all of us."

Not the only parallel that connects both teams and their trainers.

At 66, Summerer is 13 years older than Sugzda and has already been on the bench for 33 years.

But they are both ex-professional players and successful drivers in the upper amateur area of ​​Upper Bavaria.

In Eching, Landshut and Freising, Summerer showed how to get promoted to the state and Bavarian leagues.

Above all, Summerer, like Sugzda, stands for consistency - he worked for SE Freising for nine years.

Success of the SCBV: Analysis via video stream

And this also applies to his current station, at SV Ampertal Palzing.

Assumed office in 2016, district league promotion in 2019. "A huge surprise for our small village club," Summerer likes to remember the district league championship round with only four defeats, which brought the SVP back to the district football stage after more than 15 years.

“The absolute limit by our standards.

Our players actually all come from the lower leagues, but the enormous team spirit here is our great strength.” Only striker Thomas Eckmüller has higher-class experience, but has been out as an “important support” since the winter break with a cruciate ligament tear.

Summerer analyzed Baldham-Vaterstetten's 4-0 win in Aschheim the next day via the streaming service.

"I'm expecting a strong team with good individual players like Kreissl or Krumpholz on offense.

Above all, we have to fight back.” In addition, he had heard that the SCBV “in terms of potential, is actually not down there” and rather had to pursue “other claims”.

"But the new trainer, with his high-level experience, seems to have found the right trick somewhere." But Sepp Summerer doesn't want to offer his esteemed colleague more than a Palzinger steak roll.