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Freiburg’s replacement captain Jonathan Schmid against Nati star Renato Steffen von Wolfsburg in January 2021 …
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… and a year ago against Augsburg’s Ruben Vargas.
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Schmid made 285 Bundesliga games, here one in 2013 for SC Freiburg with Max Kruse (left).
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Schmid in a test match against FC St. Gallen (in a duel with Victor Ruiz) in August 2020.
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On August 21, Jonathan Schmid (31) makes his last game for the Bundesliga sensation team SC Freiburg. He played 90 minutes and did his part as a right-back in the big 2-1 win against Borussia Dortmund. Reliable as always. It was to be the man from Strasbourg’s last game for a long time.
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Of course, he did not suspect this when he had to be quarantined at home because of an infection. He then also becomes infected. A couple of days and you’re back on track. That’s how you think. Especially as a healthy professional athlete. But when SC Freiburg reports week after week that Schmid is still out, you suspect: something is wrong.
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Prank: “Jonathan is gaining weight again”
As a matter of fact. At the press conference before the game against Greuther Fürth and in the “Current Sports Studio”, Christian Streich, the coach of the Breisgauers, spoke for the first time about Schmid and his state of health. “He’s in training, doing tempo runs, but not with the team yet. The lung values are good, the values of the organs are also otherwise good. He’s gaining weight again and everything looks like he’s recovering one hundred percent. “
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The words are dramatic because they imply several things: First, that the Freiburg substitute captain, who has now missed eight Bundesliga rounds, has lost weight. Second, that his lung scores weren’t always good. And thirdly, above all, that there was a risk that he would not recover one hundred percent. Because Streich says: “I think he can come back healthy.”
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Schmid hopes for team training in December
The Frenchman’s sufferings were not made public. And even when he appeared in public for the first time on November 6, when he compared the two coaches Julian Nagelsmann and Streich before the hit against Bayern – he worked under both – he did not talk about his severe Covid-19 -Operation caused time of agony and sorrow. He only says to “Sky Sport”: “I would like to train with the team again in December.”
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Which means: He should not be on the pitch again until 2022. Streich doesn’t want to speculate. “We’ll just let him work with the physios in complete peace. We don’t need to talk about when he’ll be back at the moment. That would be purely speculative, I won’t do that. “
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According to the “Badische Zeitung”, Schmid was not vaccinated.
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