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Ex-DFB star comes: 1. FC Köln succeeds in Transfer Coup
Updated on April 23, 2025 – 10:17 a.m.Reading time: 56 min.
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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.
The peculiarity of your own plant is that Sponsel will leave FC at the end of the season. “The probability is very high that his time will end here. Meiko has the quality, at least one, if not two leagues,” said sports director Christian Keller. “I assume that he will take the step. He should, because he has it in the tank.” This made Sponsel’s debut at the same time part of his farewell from 1. FC Köln.
The ultras of the 1st FC Köln reacted to the fine of the German Bundesliga for the goats on Easter Sunday. The DFB had earned FC for a payment of around 300,000 euros after the active fan scene in the DFB Cup against Hertha BSC burned down fireworks in the south curve. In the home game against Prussia Münster, the Cologne supporters reacted with humor.
The Ultras showed three banners in a row. On “your punishments don’t ignite …” followed at first “… but we!”. At that moment, many feared a new pyro show in the stadium. But then numerous confetti cannons banged and let the south curve glitter. Finally, the Ultras rolled the banner “Another time, promised!” out of. So it will soon follow a real pyro show again.