Tino Casali back on the pitch – that’s how it goes

After a long time of suffering

Casali back on the pitch: The BTSV keeper says that

Last summer goalkeeper Tino Casali tore the cruciate ligament. Since then he has been working on his comeback for Eintracht Braunschweig. He makes great progress.

When goalkeeper Ron-Torchen Hoffmann Eintracht Braunschweig turned his back last summer, Tino Casali’s hour supposedly hit. Previously the classic backup, the regular place between the posts of the BTSV score suddenly waved him. But it turned out differently.

Casali was seriously injured in training in July 2024. The bitter diagnosis: tore the front cruciate ligament and the outer band in the right knee. The dream of a number one status at Eintracht moved far away from a long time. Casali had to work on his return on the lawn for months – including surgery and hard rehabilitation program.

But now he’s back. During the course of the week, the Austrian, who had moved from SCR Altach to the Oker in the summer of 2023, completed an individual program on the training ground of Eintracht for the first time since the fateful unity in July. “Of course it feels great to put on goalkeeper and soccer shoes again,” he says to the club’s own YouTube channel.

Feeling the lawn under your feet again and at least at a distance with your colleagues on the pitch is a “very, very good feeling.” Although the 29-year-old still has to cut back around seven months after the injury in training.

Everything is under the keyword “control”, explains Casali. He completes exercises “who are trendy and where I know what happens.” Previously, the goalkeeper had separated some parts of his rehabilitation program away from the club in his homeland Austria.

He only saw the training ground from a distance. Now it’s “fun again,” said Casali. “It is a new facet that has been added. We will now increase that at Peu à peu so that I can get back to where I was.”

He did not let the contact with his teammates grind during his absence. The exchange was always intense, says Casali. With his personality, he continued to contribute his part in the fight for relegation in the 2nd Bundesliga. “This is my nature,” says Casali. “I try to bring a good mood and a good mood into the cabin.”

Maybe he can soon be able to do this again on a sporting level. So far he has stood in a competitive game in the goal for Eintracht Braunschweig. If he continues to progress, other games could be added in the future – even if he would have to stand behind the returnee Hoffmann and possibly also the obligated Marko Johansson for the time being.