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Double comeback: “key player” back in the squad
Updated on April 25th, 2025 – 5:28 p.m.Reading time: 57 min.
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Linton Maina (to the outer band tear) and Max Finkgräfe (after muscle injury) should be back in the squad of 1st FC Köln on Sunday afternoon in Hanover. “At Linton it looks very good, it is available for the weekend. Max too, he will also be there,” announced coach Gerhard Struber.
With Maina, who had missed six games due to his serious ankle injury, the best Cologne template is returned. “We have experienced long phases in the championship with a lower availability of so -called key players. Now we have one more with us again,” says Struber, who probably has to do without central defenders Julian Pauli (sick).
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Florian Dietz remains loyal to the bad luck in Austria. The striker awarded by 1. FC Köln to the SCR Altach suffered a broken collarbone in the Bundesliga game against WSG Tyrol. Dietz had to be operated on on Thursday and fails for the rest of the season.
Particularly bitter: The 26-year-old had cheated his shoulder in a test game in March and then decided on conservative treatment without an operation to avoid early season. Now Dietz celebrated his comeback and fell on the damaged shoulder just a few minutes after his substitution. An X -ray examination brought the diagnosis of collarbone broken, so that the bottom of the table Altach in the relegation battle of the Austrian Bundesliga has to do without the Cologne attacker from now on.
The 1. FC Köln has succeeded in a real coup on the transfer market. With Marina Hegering, a highly decorated former national player will join FC for the coming season. The defender once became a German champion, four times DFB Cup winner, UEFA-WOMES CUP winner, Vice-European Champion, Bronze medal winner at the Olympics and was a champions League finalist. Now the 35-year-old has signed a two-year contract at the Geißbockheim.
“We are very pleased that we have managed to commit an outstanding defender with Marina Hegering who will help us with her experience with the development of our team. She is a leader and her vita speaks for herself. In addition, you notice that she will identify fully and entirely with the 1. FC Cologne,” said area manager Nicole Bender-Rummler.
For Hegering there were “so many arguments” to “switch to the 1. FC Köln. I like the club and used to live in Cologne. I like the city scary, the people are very special and the love of sport is noticeably great here. The anticipation of summer is huge for me.
The 1. FC Köln is said to be interested in an obligation by Ragnar Ache in the event of ascent. The Pay TV station “Sky” reports. The beefy striker of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern comes to 16 goals and a template in the current season. As the “Bildzeitung” also reports, the attacker should have an exit clause between 3.5 and 4.5 million euros. Due to the upcoming change from Tim Lemperle to TSG Hoffenheim, FC has a vacancy in the attack for the coming season.
In addition, Sky reports that the Cologne team is interested in Bernado from VfL Bochum. The central defender would be available free of charge in summer. Both to Ache and Bernando, other clubs are said to have stretched out their feelers. As long as the league affiliation has not yet been clarified at 1. FC Köln, no decision will be made.
At 1. FC Köln on Sunday in the 3-1 win over Prussia Münster, the next home-grown family celebrated its professional debut. Right -back Meiko Sponsel was substituted for Jan Thielmann shortly before the end and was on the lawn for the first time in the 2nd Bundesliga. After Julian Pauli, Elias Bakatukanda, Neo Telle, Jaka Cuber Potocnik, Oliver Schmitt and Mikail Özkan, sponsorship is the seventh player from his own offspring who debuted this season.