Lotta Wrede receives the Fritz Walter Silver Medal from the DFB

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Great honor: HSV player receives Fritz Walter Medal

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Offensive player Lotta Wrede has been awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in silver in the U17 category by the German Football Association. Hamburger SV announced this on Friday. The award is considered one of the most important honors in German youth football. Her teammate Melina Krüger had already received the bronze medal last year.

Wrede made her debut in the 2nd Women’s Bundesliga when she was just 16 years old and quickly became a regular player. In May she achieved promotion to the first division with HSV – and just a few months later she scored her first goal in the upper house against RB Leipzig. The native of Veerßen is also regularly on the pitch for the DFB youth team.

The gold medal in the U17 category went to Luzie Zähringer from FC Bayern Munich, and bronze went to her teammate Marie Gmeineder. Alara Şehitler (FC Bayern Munich), Estrella Merino Gonzalez (Bayer Leverkusen) and Thea Farwick (SV Meppen) were honored in the U19 category.

Coach Liese Brancao has criticized the scheduling of her HSV footballers’ Bundesliga game against Carl Zeiss Jena. The game is scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. (MagentaTV and DAZN) in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion. At 3:30 p.m. (Sky) the men of Hamburger SV will play in the Bundesliga against RB Leipzig. “We can’t do anything now. That’s how it is now, but it’s not cool,” said Brancao at the match press conference.

The 44-year-old fears that many spectators will forego a visit to the Volksparkstadion so as not to miss the footballers’ game. “I find it very, very sad that our fans had to decide what they wanted to watch or where they wanted to go. We’re back at the DFB. We can’t influence that,” she said. “We have to try to make the best of it.”

She is sure that her players will also look at their tablet after the game to see what their HSV colleagues are doing. “We really like to pursue our men.”

The game in Jena is a relegation duel. As newcomers, Hamburg are twelfth in the table with five points after six match days. The Thuringians are one place behind with just one point and are therefore in the first relegation place. “They are under enormous pressure,” said Brancao. But even if the opponents win, they would still be behind HSV. “We can play freely,” emphasized the coach.