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Marc Schumacher / freshfocus
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1.8
Bitter! For Boris Babic, the season is over after a cruciate ligament tear.
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fresh focus
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2.8
St Gallen’s striker injured his knee early in the 1-0 win in Lucerne on Sunday, but played to the end.
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keystone-sda.ch
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Now comes the devastating diagnosis.
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keystone-sda.ch
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7.8
Babic will be out for at least six months and will be back on the pitch in late summer at the earliest.
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BENJAMIN SOLAND
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8.8
Babic convinced with 7 goals and 2 assists. But now the season is over!
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Over the next six or seven months, Boris Babic from Walenstadt will often remember why his parents named him Boris 22 years ago. “Bori se” means “fight!” In Croatian.
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Babic fights until the last Sunday in the Swissporarena. After 15 minutes he is lying on the floor, holding his right knee. But Babic gets up again and bites through until the end of the game.
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MRI images show on Tuesday morning: St. Gallen, who mostly only sat in the stands at the Challenge League club Vaduz a year ago, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in Lucerne. After all: the inner ligament, cartilage and menisci have not been affected.
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Babic will be out for at least six months and will be back on the pitch in late summer at the earliest.
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The summit against co-leader YB will take place in the (probably) sold-out St. Gallen kybunpark on Sunday. In addition to the suspended Spaniard Victor Ruiz (appeal against the three game closures is running), Babic is now also missing!
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Amazing climb behind
Babic’s career has been hanging by a thread more than once.
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First in January 2016, after the bankruptcy of FC Biel. Half a year earlier, Babic had succumbed to the enticements of Zurich lawyer Carlo Häfeli, who dreamed of higher goals as president of challenge league team FC Biel. Babic recently in the magazine “Foot”: “In the beginning things went well with trainer Patrick Rahmen. But in the end we didn’t get any wages because nobody wanted to work at the office anymore. » In January 2016, Babic faces nothing. The Zurich firm of Häfeli, where the KV apprentice is doing his internship, is also over. For him means: No apprenticeship qualification! No sporting perspective. Babic four years later: “I was left with nothing.”
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After an intermezzo at FCSG, Babic will be loaned to FC Vaduz in March 2018. And there is offside again a year ago. But in civil defense in Herisau AR, a call from St. Gallen coach Peter Zeidler reached him a year ago.
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The German wants to bring Boris back to the second half of 2019. Vaduz turns sideways. Babic: “Peter Zeidler told me to step on the gas, and they will bring me back in the summer.”
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During the summer break, Babic presses the tube. «As always, I flew to Serbia on vacation. And I took a personal trainer in Belgrade. I trained intensively twice a day. I really accelerated. »
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Also in the prep camp in Bad Ragaz SG, Babic always turned in the red in July last year. He knows that this is probably his last chance as a professional. And he’s obviously overdoing it. In the second last test game Babic gets a muscle injury and therefore misses the first three Super League games.
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On August 3, 2019, Babic will play with FCSG II in the 1st division against Wettswil, scoring a goal at 2-2.
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One week later. Dereck Kutesa on the left is about to move to Stade Reims. Far right Axel Bakayoko is injured. Zeidler brings Babic on the right wing next to Itten and Guillemenot for the first time. Babic: “I got out a penalty.” Even more important. He gets a regular place. And no longer gives it up. Babic convinced with 7 goals and 2 assists. The season is now over!
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