Drones, thick beats, oversized canvas: FC Augsburg is preparing for the new season with the new head coach Sandro Wagner. The Swabians do not want to talk about goals – the interest in the club is more great than ever.
Long – maybe never – was so far from football Germany in the welfare and woe of FC Augsburg. The Swabians go to their 15th season in the Bundesliga. In the past few years, the Augsburger has long since increased massively in the past few years: more than half of all home games were sold out in the past season, with a viewer average of just under 30,000, a new record from the first Bundesliga season in the club’s history was narrowly missed.
For the first time top game: FC Augsburg-FC Bayern
The fact that the entire country is now interested in the well -being and woe of the FCA is relatively new – and can be taken with a look at the kick -off time of the 2nd match day. At this, the HSV meets Arch rival FC St. Pauli, Bayer Leverkusen on Werder Bremen, VfB Stuttgart on Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Bundesliga top game on Saturday is-for the first time after 28 meetings-FC Augsburg against FC Bayern.
This is only due to the fact that the Augsburgers usually make it extremely difficult for the industry crescent from the approximately an hour’s drive. This increased interest has much more to do with the Sandro Wagner personnel, who has been wearing the head coach post of the FCA since this summer. In a rather surprising turn, the Augsburgers had separated from the popular coach Jess Thorup after last season, in which they took twelve and played for European places. A little later, the FCA announced the obligation of co-national coach Sandro Wagner to date.
Rap music and drones: new Training methods At the FCA
Wagner has been working in Augsburg for almost a month. In the training camp you can see that he will do things a little differently. A drone hovers over the square, the trainer’s tactical instructions are shown on a huge video screen. The units are often accompanied by loud rap music: Eminem, Kanye West, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar ballert through the boxes, the atmosphere on the square is left out.
And on the side of the side, the new boss stands, with wide legs, crossed arms and drawn eyebrows, observing, analyzing. “There is a good atmosphere,” reports attacker Samuel dining about the Swabian training camp in Austria and adds: “We trained a lot, especially in the tactical area.”
FC Augsburg invested: New players for the Bundesliga
“The trainer wants to give us his idea of the game. Both defensive and offensive. That is the focus at the moment,” explains Elias Saad, who was hired by FC St. Pauli for around two million euros in summer. Saad is one of six new additions, for which the FCA is said to have spent just under 15 million euros, according to media reports. The purchase options were drawn with the central defenders Chrislain Matsima (around five million / AS Monaco) and Cèdric Zesinger (four million / VfL Wolfsburg). Han-Noah Massengo (three million / FC Burnley) and Robin Feilhauer (700,000 euros / SV Elversberg) came two players for the midfield center. Kyliane Dong (20) came from Troyes free of charge.
Wagner: “My DNA is active football”
The transfer planning is far from complete. There are plenty of rumors about possible newcomers: Derrick Köhn, Ibrahima Sissoko, Elias Jelert, Max Johnston, Fabian Rieder. The focus was on this transfer period so far on the defensive – the game idea of Wagner will undoubtedly be an offensive that had Wagner also at his official performance in early July emphasizes: “My DNA is active football! We do not measure our success primarily in a place in the table. We want to see development and the fans should have fun with our football.”
Forbidden vocabulary: Europe – where are you going for the FCA?
The word combination “European business” is currently prohibited from the Swabians. Excessive expectations should not make life difficult for the new trainer and the team. Therefore, the public objectives are therefore quite vague: “upwards” Wagner, The new sports director Benjamin Weber wants to “always win”Managing Director Michael Ströll “develop further, also tabular” – and new signing Saad has the plan to “mix the Bundesliga. A surprise team”.
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Source: BR24Sport on radio 31.07.2025 – 10:55 a.m.
