Status: 15.08.2025 12:14 p.m.
Sommer, Sunday, 6 p.m., DFB Cup-which sounds attractive to football fans, Holstein coach Marcel Rapp considers the Kiel supporter to be unreasonable. The 700 kilometers to Homburg scare away.
Holstein Kiel coach Marcel Rapp criticized the kick-off time for the DFB Cup game of the second division soccer team at FC 08 Homburg. The Schleswig-Holsteiners will compete on Sunday at 6 p.m. (in the NDR LiveCenter) for the first round of the southwest regional league. “I find the kick -off time unhappy, even if it is in the evening and if it sounds supposedly cool,” said Rapp at the press conference before the game.
Rapp: “Maximum bad for our fans”
“It is at most bad for our fans to play in one evening. Why, why, why the game is put on one evening, I cannot answer,” he added. He is incredibly sorry for him. There might have made more supporters on the more than 700 kilometer path. 800 fans accompany their team to Saarland on Sunday.
Holstein fans have become more traveling
“The one who makes the attitudes in the cup at the DFB may not have noticed that Holstein Kiel has become more travel-loving in recent years,” said the 46-year-old. Ten years ago, only a few might have traveled, “now the guest block at away games is always full”.
The start of the season makes Rapp a little perplex
For the Kielers, it is important to finally have a sense of achievement in the DFB Cup. In the second division, the Bundesliga relegated team had to accept two defeats in the first two games. Above all, the first half in the 0-2 against Arminia Bielefeld last Saturday not only left Rapp a little at a loss.
The topic was in training this week. He spoke to the team about performance. “We haven’t found the point where we say, it was exactly because we put it off and then it gets better,” he said. “I didn’t expect that either.”
