FCN: Bundesliga test for Klose: Will the club pack Hoffenheim too?

Now the Bundesliga team is going to ride the wave of Nuremberg euphoria. And the club can show if it can keep up with Germany’s top teams.

Ahead of tomorrow’s cup match (8.45pm) at TSG Hoffenheim, the belief in possible progress is higher than it has been for a long time. Two great derby successes against Fürth (4:0) and against Regensburg (8:3) have suddenly turned the struggling club into a self-sufficient second division team. courage Everything seems possible these days for FCN and its world champion coach Miroslav Klose (46).

Is the club even packing Hoffenheim now?

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The enthusiasm and support from the fans is huge. According to BILD information, the stadium in Sinsheim is expecting an attacking fan in red and black. The usual number of guests (3000 tickets) was exceeded several times. Around 10,000 club fans will make the real away game a real home game for the club.

The best offense in German professional football at the moment (two goals in two games) should also scare the first division club. This corresponds to the fact that Hoffenheim currently has serious problems in 15th place in the Bundesliga. The Europa League participant was only able to win two of the last ten competitive matches.

Klose: “They have strengths in many areas, and their biggest is the transfer game. The question is also whether Matarazzo can rest players. That’s why we look at ourselves and want to test the last games and perform with a certain euphoria. “

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He didn’t forget his roots as a trainer!

Hoffenheim coach Pellegrino Matarazzo (48) is playing against the club today for the second time in his coaching role. In 2017 he won with Hoffenheim U17 against Nuremberg youth. Now there is a professional duel against the former club in the DFB Cup.

Hoffenheim coach Pellegrino Matarazzo knows his way around the Valznerweiher

Photo: Hasan Bratic/DeFodi Pictures

Matarazzo took his first steps as a trainer at Valznerweiher. He was first signed as an amateur player in 2006 and played a total of 62 times for FCN’s reserves in the Bavarian and regional leagues until 2009.

From 2010 he took over the position of assistant coach for the amateurs and was an assistant to the head of the youth performance center Michael Wiesinger (51). In the meantime, he even looked after the current U23 as head manager before then coaching the club’s U17 and U19 (until 2017).

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Before the cup match, Matarazzo said of his time at FCN: “Eleven years at a club is a long time in football, three as a player, eight as a coach – you grow into the structures and it holding you The club is still an important part of my history and my life.”

He has been Hoffenheim’s coach since last February. But recently he came under a lot of pressure. Leaving the cup against the club could be dangerous for Matarazzo’s job.