Kwasniok wanted FC talent at Paderborner times

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Kwasniok wanted FC talent at Paderborner times

The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Said El Mala, who moved to the 1st FC Köln after an outstanding third division season at Viktoria Köln, has already made an impression on Lukas Kwasniok in the past. Even as a coach of SC Paderborn, he met the 19-year-old in a friendly against the Viktoria: “Then he turned our right-back quite a bit. I hadn’t known him at the time and thought ‘Wow, what a talent’.” Kwasniok’s first impulse was to be able to guess the player to Paderborn until he learned that El Mala “the Great Cologne”.

Kwasniok is looking forward to the left wing, but also steps on the brake: “Logically we have to leave the church in the village – or the cathedral in the city. It is a young player who has just taken a great development.” It is clear to the FC coach that El Mala has a lot of talent, but “at 19 this development was not complete. There will be different phases.” It is important to accompany the Stümer, protect it, “but also let him run if he has the potential to do so”.

Aaron Tener, Calvin Brackelmann, Raphael Obermair and most recently Manuel Riemann – according to the increasing rumor mill, almost half the starting eleven of SC Paderborn should accompany their previous coach Lukas Kwasniok to the 1st FC Köln. More and more ex-players of the new chief coach, for example also Freiburg Florent Muslija, are traded in Cologne.

At his inaugural press conference on Wednesday, Kwasniok said: “I am amazed that every name is going on.” He did not sound like it as if he wanted to take several old acquaintances with him: “I appreciate the boys immensely, but I’m now here at 1. FC Köln and that’s a category again. We cannot say: We now transfer six players from SC Paderborn and try it in the Bundesliga.” Aaron tenth, however, is definitely a Cologne desired player.

The 1. FC Köln is testing in the summer preparation against Atalanta Bergamo. The test game against the third of Serie A becomes a dress rehearsal for the billy goats on the upcoming Bundesliga season. For FC it is the first test game in the RheinEnergieStadion since the game against FC Nantes before the 2023/24 season.

Now another real highlight is waiting for the fans of the billy goats. On August 9th at 3:30 p.m., the Champions League participant from northern Italy will be a guest in the Rhine Energy Stadium. The game takes place exactly a week before the competitive game start in the DFB Cup. The 1st FC Köln meets the second division relegation Jahn Regensburg. In addition, only the first test game of the summer preparation is known on July 12 against SV Bergisch Gladbach.

A new plant of 1. FC Köln has probably found a new club. As “Reviersport” reports on Monday, Marvin Obuz should be faced with Rot-Weiss Essen and will be on the pitch on Wednesday at the third division training training. Already in the 2023/24 season, the attacker played on loan for the Essener and scored eight goals and 17 templates in 40 competitive games.