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Page 1Leverkusen is finally due
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Page 2Still good news for HSV
Who plays against whom and when?
The crucial question for all cult football club fans in the world will be on Friday: Union or St. Pauli?
Which game should you not miss?
Leverkusen against Leipzig, the first top match of the season. Leverkusen is due soon. The double winners may have started the season with win, win and win. But even Leipzig have not missed how that came about. Against Gladbach, Bayer’s defense did not always seem to be in order, but then the video assistant helped. In the DFB Cup against Jena on Wednesday, they only managed a laborious 1-0 win, and Jena almost used Bayer’s equalizer method against them in injury time. “And you want to be German champions?” sang the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld and it was well received: “That’s not enough even against a regional league team,” said Robert Andrich, Jonas Hofmann spoke of a warning shot. When Leverkusen last lost, Schalke and Hertha were still playing in the league, and Hansi Flick was the national coach. Will Leipzig do it now? Spectators should keep Saturday evening free.
Which game can you miss with a clear conscience?
That of their child. Now it is not news that Lothar Matthäus is no longer a coach somewhere. But this time he garnished his departure with a warning to millions of people in this country. He blamed his resignation on the never-ending whining of the soccer mums and dads from Grünwald. Matthäus coached his son Milan’s team there. But the arguments and vanity between the parents eventually became too stupid for him. Details of the separation he revealed in an interview with SZ. “At eleven o’clock at night I received calls from parents.”
Who is in the spotlight?
Mario Vušković. The talented Croatian defender of Hamburger SV is the first footballer to be banned in Germany for EPO doping. The DFB sports court’s verdict was made in March 2023, and judge Stephan Oberholz chose his own path in the sentence. Instead of banning Vušković for four years, as the statutes stipulate, he reduced the sentence to two. A verdict that no one was happy with. Both the player and the two anti-doping agencies involved, Nada and Wada, appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Vušković protests his innocence and wants an acquittal. Nada and Wada insist on their rules, which the DFB must also adhere to.
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And now they were right. The CAS increased Vušković’s sentence is four years, meaning he will be missing from HSV until November 2026. It is a highly emotional and controversial case for HSV fans, in which diversionary tactics and whataboutisms are used. Their latest comparison, which is inadmissible for various reasons, is with the tennis player Jannik Sinner, who was just acquitted. But what is most astonishing is that in many places it can be read that the Hamburg public prosecutor’s office has also closed its investigations against Vušković. Press spokeswoman Liddy Oechtering corrects this misinformation, telling ZEIT ONLINE: “The case is still pending and is being examined.”
The crucial question for all cult football club fans in the world will be on Friday: Union or St. Pauli?
Leverkusen against Leipzig, the first top game of the season. Leverkusen is due soon. The double winners may have started the season with win, win and win. But even Leipzig have not missed how that came about. Against Gladbach, Bayer’s defense did not always seem to be in order, but then the video assistant helped. In the DFB Cup against Jena on Wednesday, they only managed a laborious 1-0 win, and Jena almost used Bayer’s equalizing method against them in injury time. “And you want to be German champions?” sang the Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld and it was well received: “That’s not enough even against a regional league team,” said Robert Andrich, Jonas Hofmann spoke of a warning shot. When Leverkusen last lost, Schalke and Hertha were still playing in the league, and Hansi Flick was the national coach. Will Leipzig do it now? Spectators should keep Saturday evening free.
