Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln won the reunion with club legend Lukas Podolski. As part of a mini-tournament in St. Johann, Austria, the team coached by Steffen Baumgart won 3-1 against the Polish first division club Gornik Zabrze.
The Cologne goals were scored by Sargis Adamyan (11′), Timo Hübers (45′) and Davie Selke (45’+1′) and the game lasted only 45 minutes. Rio world champion Podolski (38), who recently extended his contract with Poland by two years, was in the starting XI, as was ex-Cologne native Pawel Olkowski. Olkowski scored the interim equalizer (36th).
The test took place as part of the FC training camp in Maria Alm. It was only the fourth time that Podolski played against his former club: previously twice in the league with FC Bayern and once with Arsenal in a test in Müngersdorf.
However, the three-way tournament in the sweltering heat in the Koasa Stadium was not won by FC, but by second division team Hannover 96. Lower Saxony defeated both the Poldi club (3-0) and Cologne (1-0).
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Bundesliga: Darmstadt loses test in Gießen
Darmstadt 98 has lost its third test in preparation for the new season. The lilies lost 2-0 (0-0) to the Hessen league team FC Gießen on Sunday, with Jorden Aigboje (60th) and Leonid Akulinin (70th) scoring the goals.
“We rightly lost today because we didn’t have our best day. But there are also games like that during preparation,” said coach Torsten Lieberknecht.
Darmstadt will move into a training camp in Herxheim from July 22nd to 30th. On August 14, the first round of the DFB Cup will go to FC 08 Homburg (6 p.m. / Sky), the following weekend Darmstadt will celebrate its return to the Bundesliga in the Hessen derby at Eintracht Frankfurt.
Bundesliga: Heidenheimer victory at the district league
Newcomers 1. FC Heidenheim are still in goal mood in the early stages of their pre-season preparation. Coach Frank Schmidt’s team won their second test match at neighboring district football club SV Mergelstetten 14-0 (7-0). Most recently, Heidenheim had defeated an Eisack-Rienz selection 12-0 during his training camp in South Tyrol.
All four of the previous new signings were used in Schmidt’s starting line-up against Mergelstetten. Marvin Pieringer, Eren Dinkci, Tim Kleindienst and Stefan Schimmer distinguished themselves as two goalscorers.
2023-07-16 22:07:46
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