Next season’s coming

By: jhb | June 28th, 2009

And once again the world proves to be a village. In this weekend’s drawing for the DFB cup – which like last season marks the beginning of the season, I see a pattern there.. – we’ve been drawn to play at Lotte. Yeah, plenty of knowledge at wikipedia, huh? Anyways, the world being small etc., in my brief research about Sportfreunde Lotte I found they’ve just signed the man whose unpronouncable family name was the only reason for his failure at our very club: David Czyszczon. They signed him from RW Essen, who in turn had signed him in 2007 from, well, our reserves.

In preparation for that bang of a start to the new season, the VfL has resumed training at home yesterday, missing Yahia and Hashemian (holidays because they had to play WC qualifiers), Blondie (busy warming the bench in the U21 WC in Sweden), and Pippo Bönig (some operation or other). Quietly, the management has apparently sold Marcin Mieciel, who wanted to go back to Poland and is going to play for Warsaw next year. Good luck there!
We also lost Danny Fuchs to Kaiserslautern, where he’s already spent the past 12 months on loan. Good luck to you, too.

Apart from Swedish defender Johansson, the only new players in the first week are apparently recruited from the reserves, the youngsters Luthe and Vogt (positions unknown) are given the chance to fight their way through the Bundesliga next year. Even more good luck to them!

More news: The new kit is to be revealed on wednesday, and if the rumours are any indication, it is not going to be the most exciting revelation ever…
During the summer, we’re playing the following teams in test matches:
5 July – FC Zurich
8 July – FC St. Gallen (the summer camp is in Switzerland, in case you couldn’t guess)
13 July – FC Wil (plenty of opportunity for FC-Goodwill-puns etc there)
18 July – Olympiacos FC (at home)
22 July – RW Ahlen (at Telgte
25 July – Trabzonspor Kulübü (at home, whoever they might be)

that’s it for tonight, I’ll be back on wednesday the latest with the new shirts!