After speculation about a career
A few months ago there was speculation about Sebastian Andersson’s career, now the 31-year-old center forward of 1. FC Köln could return to the pitch faster than expected. On Thursday the Swede, who underwent voluntary knee surgery in Copenhagen last fall, surprisingly stood on the training ground at “Effzeh” and is dreaming of a comeback this season.
“I hope that I can get back into team training in two to three weeks,” said Andersson, whose contract with the Domstadt team expires at the end of the season.Picture“. The offensive man has scored eight goals for FC in 47 games so far, but has not played a competitive game since April 2022. In the ranking of the most expensive purchases in the history of Cologne, he is in seventh place with a transfer fee of 6.5 million euros.
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Coach Steffen Baumgart, who expressed pessimism about continuing Andersson’s active career after the operation and thus aroused the attacker’s displeasure, would be happy to have another offensive force in the final spurt of the season. FC, in 13th place, have scored 33 goals this season in the Bundesliga – only five clubs are more harmless in attack.
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“What I saw from Seb looks positive at first. He really wasn’t having an easy time. And then when you see light at the end of the tunnel, that’s nice, especially when he can show that he can keep playing football. We will continue to support him,” Baumgart told the newspaper, adding: “Maybe we’ll even have the opportunity to bring him back and maybe he’ll score one or two crucial goals for us – like in the relegation a year and a half ago . We would all wish that.”
According to Baumgart, Andersson is “on a very, very good path”, but this is “still a long time and there are still a few hurdles to be overcome”. According to the report, the right-footer should do his first exercises with the team next week and then be integrated more and more. “A football and training load looks different than what Seb is doing right now,” says Baumgart.
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