Last game in the Dreisamstadion: Christian Streich warns Freiburg

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Coach Christian Streich on September 18, 2021 during the game FSV Mainz 05 against his SC Freiburg.

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Now it’s getting emotional in Breisgau! SC Freiburg will play its last game in the venerable Dreisam Stadium on Sunday.

Freiburg. In the beginning there was no floodlight, no warm water in the cabins and crooked grandstands without a roof, but over the years SC Freiburg felt more and more comfortable in the Dreisamstadion. It even became a real love affair. And that ends on Sunday (September 26, 2021) at the home game against FC Augsburg (5.30 p.m., DAZN). The last home game in the Dreisamstadion is coming up! There will be tears for sure.

SC Freiburg moved in 67 years ago. The stadium has been a Bundesliga location since 1993 – interrupted by a total of seven years in the second division. “We had no floodlights at all at the beginning, and some of the players went home to shower because there was no warm water,” remembers Freiburg legend Volker Finke (73), who was Baden’s coach from 1991 to 2007, and she has led to the Bundesliga.

The stadium was renovated three times larger in Finke’s time and brought up to scratch. Finke recalls: “Back then we invested in stones and not in legs. Achim Stocker preferred to put the money into the team. ”The former SC president was worried about what would happen in the event of relegation. “Coach, will we stay in?” Stocker asked before each further expansion stage.

SC Freiburg: Christian Streich on saying goodbye to Dreisamstadion

Now coach Christian Streich (56) has been at the helm since December 2011. Between him and Finke, only Robin Dutt (56, between 2007 and 2011) and Marcus Sorg (56, in 2011) coached SC Freiburg. Streich is now emotionally torn when he thinks of the imminent departure from the Dreisamstadion and the move to the new Europa-Park Stadium: “I’m looking forward to the new stadium, but I’m already missing the old one.”

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Final for Freiburg’s Dreisamstadion: SC Freiburg will play its last game here. The photo was taken on November 22, 2020.

Freiburg’s captain Christian Günter (28) is also emotionally charged, after all, he has played half of his life in the Dreisamstadion, from his youth to today. “I played here for almost 14 years and of course I will miss the stadium. For me it is an absolute goosebumps moment when the whole stadium is standing, everyone holds up their scarf and sings the Badnerlied. “

Freiburg’s crowd favorite and record scorer Nils Petersen (32) once said in a podcast that he used to “hate playing in Freiburg”. You feel “outside of Germany and then you play in this small arena – one half uphill, one half downhill.”

But he too will be sad now, but doesn’t want to show too many feelings: “We humans are creatures of habit. Everyone is a little afraid of change. But I think when we’re over there in two weeks, we won’t even talk about it anymore. The stadium and the stories associated with it will not be torn down right away. ”The SC wants to continue using the stadium for women’s and girls’ football. The new stadium is important for the growth of the professional department: 34,700 spectators will find space in the future. A good 10,000 more than in the Dreisamstadion.

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Interior shots of the new SC Freiburg stadium, the photo was taken in March 2021.

Coach Streich doesn’t want to allow too many tears on Sunday: “We have to be careful because there are a lot of anecdotes and there is a lot of nostalgia, but we have a Bundesliga game. We mustn’t hang everything too high, and neither should I for myself ”. Prescribed emotional coldness from Streich, so that Freiburg says goodbye to the Dreisamstadion with three points. (ubo, dpa)

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