House ban and player blocked - dispute over youth players escalates
Created: 08/10/2022, 16:04
By: Corbinian Kothny
Players from SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham were recruited from Kirchheimer SC (symbol image).
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Shortly before the registration deadline, four players leave the U15 popular sports team of SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham.
They switch to the neighbor Kirchheimer SC.
That causes trouble.
Munich
– July 15th is the big deadline for Roland Pumm, youth leader of FC Parsdorf.
Until then, all clubs in Bavarian youth football must register their teams for the coming season with the BFV.
Youth leaders often plan weeks in advance for the coming season.
So does Pumm.
The SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham also wanted to start with three teams in the C-Youth in the coming season.
Four days before the registration deadline, however, the SG was informed via the online portal of the BFV that four players wanted to deregister and switch to Kirchheimer SC.
There was no previous contact between the clubs.
SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham refused release of the players
That annoys Pumm.
"All in all, half the team from last year's U14-3 was actively asked if they would like to switch to KSC.
Then there was a trial session and at the end four players changed,” explains Pumm.
The SG had planned with the four children.
Now only 13 players are left for the team.
"We're talking about popular sport here.
The team was promoted from the group to the district class last season and planned as a second team.
There will always be something like that in competitive sports.
You can talk about it if a player wants to change.
But that's where the fun stops.
We had no knowledge of the change of players until the BFV deregistration,” says Pumm.
The SG's hands are now tied.
"The way it works is amazing," says the youth leader angrily.
The club can only approve or reject the deregistration via the receiving club in the next 14 days.
Pumm, along with his colleagues, opted to deny the deregistration.
Players will now be banned.
"It hurts our souls, but that's the only way we can defend ourselves," explains Pumm.
Furthermore, the SG published an open letter in which they heavily criticized the Kirchheimer SC for the procedure.
The deadlines are also a thorn in Pumm's side.
Players can change in the youth section until July 15th.
The same deadline as for the registration of the teams.
"We don't have any planning security," says the youth leader angrily.
SV Anzing bans former youth coaches
At Kirchheimer SC, on the other hand, they firmly defend themselves against parts of the allegations.
Above all Rene Seibold.
He is the coach of the U11s at KSC and, according to his own statement, organized the trial training in Kirchheim for five boys.
Seibold was "in no way actively" approaching the players.
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The youth trainer comes from Anzing, where he used to work as a trainer at the SV and was one of the co-initiators of the SG.
He has known the players who have now changed since they were little and trained them earlier.
Contrary to what Pumm said, according to Seibold, the parents approached him and asked him if he could use his contacts to place the boys with another club.
According to Seibold, they wanted to stop playing football because training at SG was no longer appropriate for their age.
He then organized trial training sessions in Kirchheim, but also in Pasing.
In the end they decided on the KSC.
He doesn't want to let the fact that Seibold addressed half the team stand.
He organized trial training for five children, four of whom switched.
"By the way, one of the four boys has already quit and two of the other three players would have stopped playing football anyway if they had stayed with SG," says Seibold.
Seibold cannot understand the public path that the SG and especially Pumm are now taking.
He was also banned from entering Anzing, although he is still a member of the club there.
“The most important thing for me is that the kids keep playing football.
I just let my contacts play.
The real cheek is that the boys are now being banned," says Seibold.
Kirchheimer SC is insightful
When asked, Kirchheimer SC described the alleged poaching attempt in a similar way, but was still insightful.
"It didn't go well and wasn't the fine English way. We also offered to transfer the players back," explains youth leader Dominik Achilles.
"Our coaches should learn from this," says a dejected-looking Achilles, but above all makes the parents of the players responsible: "In the future, the prerequisite for players wanting to come is that the parents deal with the transfer at the releasing club deal openly.”
SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham can still register a team
He is not happy with the whole incident.
To avoid trouble in the future, Achilles wants to set up a policy for his coaches.
According to this, children should not be actively approached in both popular and competitive sports and if there is a change, this should be transparent.
The new guideline comes too late for the SG Anzing/Parsdorf/Baldham.
But the U15-2 are not giving up on the SG.
“We reported the team anyway.
We have to juggle the players every weekend now, but the most important thing is that the other kids can keep playing," says Pumm.
That doesn't apply to the three boys who changed.
They were banned by the association for the next three months.