„Youth football is exciting every yearsays Christian Freund with a smile. The head coach of the Wiesbaden U19s should know, after all, after several years of absolute dominance in the GFL-J group of the Wiesbaden Phantoms and the complete reorganization of his Bundesliga team in 2022, he experienced a season in which he “only” finished second. In the play-offs, what felt like an early elimination in the quarter-finals for the German championship followed – in previous years the semi-finals had been reached several times and even the Junior Bowl once. Despite the complete replacement last year – in the youth field, the departures in older years and newcomers from younger teams always cause high fluctuation – to be one of the eight best German teams, a great success.
2023 could bring some surprise egg effects, because the situation in the 2023 season, which started on Saturday, April 29, 4 p.m., with the kick-off against Bad Homburg in the local “Camp Lindsey”, Willy-Brandt- Avenue 17, is particularly interesting: “Now the age groups are playing together in the U19s, who were forbidden to play sports during the Corona peak phase., explains friend. The effects are obvious. “Football is a sport for everyone, you can find a position and a place on the team no matter how tall or heavy you are. Unfortunately, too many young people are more likely to find their place in streaming or on the console.A problem that almost every club suffers from. In American football, where it is particularly important to be as perfectly coordinated as possible, the effects are obvious.
But the Phantoms wouldn’t be the Phantoms if they didn’t aim high. So high that while they are realistic, they are difficult to achieve. Christian Freund on this: “The goal is once again the play-offs, that’s what the team is working for.”
In the middle group, the U19s will meet the Saarland Hurricanes, last year’s winner Bad Homburg and the Gießen Golden Dragons, as they did last season. The association ensures a second Ü-Ei effect: Interconference games with the southern group. In the new season, they have opponents ready that the Phantoms may have had to deal with in the past in the play-offs, but who otherwise did not belong in the regular Wiesbaden game plan. In 2023 it will be the Stuttgart Scorpions and Fursty Razorbacks who will compete against the Phantoms in the first and second leg. So ten games in total – “Finally a full season again“, head coach Freund says happily.
The schedule at a glance:
Sat., April 29, 4 p.m.: Wiesbaden Phantoms – Bad Homburg Sentinels
Sunday, May 7th, 3 p.m.: Gießen Golden Dragons – Wiesbaden Phantoms
Saturday, May 13, 3 p.m.: Stuttgart Scorpions – Wiesbaden Phantoms
Sat., May 20th, 3 p.m.: Saarland Hurricanes – Wiesbaden Phantoms
Sat., June 3, 4 p.m.: Wiesbaden Phantoms – Giessen Golden Dragons
Sat., June 10, 4 p.m. Fursty Razorbacks – Wiesbaden Phantoms
Sat., June 17, 4 p.m.: Wiesbaden Phantoms – Saarland Hurricanes
Saturday, July 1st, 4 p.m.: Wiesbaden Phantoms – Stuttgart Scorpions
Saturday, July 8, 4 p.m.: Bad Homburg Sentinels – Wiesbaden Phantoms
Sat., July 15, 1 p.m.: Wiesbaden Phantoms – Fursty Razorbacks
2023-04-27 23:38:33
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