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2023-02-24T11:02:57.307Z


Regional football league FC Pipinsried starts the 2023 season at TSV Rain. The new player-coach Herbert Paul can only watch – due to a strange ban.


Regional football league FC Pipinsried starts the 2023 season at TSV Rain. The new player-coach Herbert Paul can only watch – due to a strange ban.

Pipinsried – Regional football league team FC Pipinsried is starting the new year with a trend-setting derby and with it its mission to stay up in the league: The Pipinsrieders will play TSV Rain this Saturday at 2 p.m.

What makes the match so interesting is not only the derby character and the starting position in the table, but also the accompanying circumstances.

Because the bad news fluttered into the FC Pipinsried email mailbox in the middle of the week: The new player-coach Herbert Paul is blocked!

But why?

Opinions differ on that.

The ban was set by the German Football Association (DFB) – and that alone makes it incomprehensible.

The initial situation: Herbert Paul received a red card on July 4, 2020 in his last game for TSV 1860 Munich against FC Ingolstadt.

After that Paul moved to Austria Klagenfurt in Austria.

At the request of the Austrian Football Association ÖFB, the DFB said at the time that the ban had been lifted.

Now, after around two years and seven months, the DFB has reactivated the ban.

The red card does not count when moving to a UEFA member country - but it does count in your own country.

The Bavarian Football Association's reasoning in summary: Herbert Paul received a red card in a third-division game, and a two-game ban was imposed for this.

This is still stored in the system and has not actually expired.

The DFB has not formulated a clause in the case of a ban for championship games, according to which it expires, for example, after the end of the next season.

The BFV regulation does not apply here, as it only applies to Bavarian bans.

In this respect, the player is suspended for two championship games.

Pure slapstick - on the back of a player.

"Something like that doesn't work at all.

I'm pissed.

What are they actually thinking?” asks the new team manager of FC Pipinsried, Ati Lushi.

The fact is and remains: Herbert Paul is suspended in the games against Rain and the following weekend in Eichstätt.

FCP are also missing other key players in Daniel Jelisic (ankle injury), Ahanna Agbowo (dislocated shoulder) and Halit Yilmaz (red card suspension).

The team from the Dachau hinterland ranks second to last in the table with 22 points, Rain is 14th with 27 points and is therefore on a non-relegation zone.

The first leg went to FCP with a clear 3:0, but the Pipinsrieders had a few players on the field at the time who are no longer in the squad.

With Pablo Pigl, Niko Jelisic, Bernard Mwarome and Felix Thiel, four experienced players who could have made the difference in the relegation battle are gone.

Hard preparation was carried out under the new coaching duo Herbert Paul and Enver Maltas.

The good impression made by the Pipinsrieders in the 3-1 win against the Bavarian league team Deisenhofen must now be converted into points.

A weakness of Pipinsrieder was the offensive department.

That's where Paul and Maltas rely on center forward Marvin Jike.

To do this, however, the FCP storm tank must finally exploit its potential.

If Jike finally bursts the knot, the chances of a win in Rain increase significantly.

"Everyone is happy that the preparation is over and it's all about points again," says coach Paul.

“We talked a lot about what matters.

Now we have the opportunity to prove that in a competitive game.”

At TSV Rain there was a bang a few days ago.

Shortly after the end of the change period, the club management informed coaches and players that they would no longer play in the regional league in the future.

The main sponsor had reorientated itself, there should be more mass sport in the future - that's how it was, in short, to be heard from Rain.

The first reactions: coach Martin Weng, assistant coach Johannes Müller, captain Stefan Müller and athletics coach Raphael Boger resigned immediately.

"After several discussions, the coaches and the team were assured in mid-January that everything is being tried to get the regional league going," said a statement from Martin Weng and Johannes Müller.

"On February 2nd, two days after the expiry of the transfer period, when it was clear to everyone that players could no longer change, we were unexpectedly informed by telephone that a committee had made a decision."

Ultimately, however, the remaining players decided to complete the season.

The circumstances will certainly not make it any easier for FC Pipinsried, it may be more complicated.

Source: merkur

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