Dramatic Bundesliga relegation
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Heidenheim’s coaching veteran Frank Schmidt put on a belly landing during the highly emotional jubilee and now urgently needs a break, his players celebrated the last minute class with their fans. In contrast, after the bitter KO, many tears flowed after the bitter KO at the inferior village club SV Elversberg. In a dramatic final phase, Heidenheim burst the Elversberger dream of the first promotion to the Bundesliga and qualified for another Bundesliga year.
The team from Ostalb won the relegation secondary with the Saarlanders with 2: 1 (1: 1) through a goal by Leo Scienza in the fifth minute of stoppage time and goes to elite class after the 2-2 in the first leg. “It was months of work. Now we can take a catch behind the season, that’s awesome.” Elversberg demanded everything from us, “said Heidenheim’s captain Patrick Mainel at” Sat.1 “.
This was particularly true for trainer Schmidt. “Honestly: I am a mouse kaputt-for days and weeks. Nobody needs to call me tomorrow, I was no longer available for anyone. I had no vacation and urgently needed relaxation last year. I would like to go full throttle with my team from the beginning of July. Therefore: From tomorrow no one will hear and see me,” said the 51-year-old.
In front of 10,000 spectators, Mathias Honsak scored the goals for the team of coach Schmidt in the 9th minute and finally Scienza, the game year as table-16. had completed VfL Bochum and Holstein Kiel in front of the relegations. Robin Fellhauer’s (31st) compensation in the meantime was not enough for the Elversbergers, who had qualified for the relegation as a third-party third of the 2nd league. The 1st FC Köln and Hamburger SV had secured it directly.
With the victory, the Heidenheimers, who even played internationally in the Conference League this season, stopped the fairytale journey of the SVE. Four years ago, the Saarlanders were still kicking in the regional league. Then the ascent – 2022 in the 3rd division, in 2023 in the 2nd Bundesliga. The success coach Horst Steffen was not enough for the very big coup.
“Everyone who stood on the pitch are the winners. I found that we were significantly better and had more playings. We were the team that would have earned the Bundesliga,” said Elversberg’s sports director Nils-Ole Book at “Sky”.
SV Elversberg: What’s next with Steffen and Book?
After the missed ascent, he and coach Steffen left their future open in Elversberg. According to the KO, Steffen did not want to comment on the question of whether it was his last game on the sidelines of the Saarlanders at “Sat.1”. Before kick -off, he said at “Sky”: “There are always rumors. For years I have not been saying any comments on such stories – that’s the way it is today.” According to the Pay TV station, his departure is emerging.
Book also didn’t want to make a commitment to the club. “You can never rule out anything,” said Book at “Sky”. With clever transfers, he had made the Elversberger high -altitude flight from the regional league to almost into the Bundesliga. At some well -known clubs in the Bundesliga and the 2nd league, coaches are still being sought for the coming season, Steffen is considered a candidate at Werder Bremen, who needs a successor for Ole Werner at the latest in 2026.