Bundesliga: With Matthias Ginter: SC Freiburg starts preparing

As of: 06/27/2022 6:31 p.m

SC Freiburg started the pre-season with Matthias Ginter. Coach Christian Streich has advice for the returnee and expects more newcomers.

After the great euphoria surrounding the DFB Cup final, things are calming down again at SC Freiburg. Not several thousand, as at the reception after the lost final, but just around 50 fans lined the training ground at the Europa-Park stadium on Monday morning for the Freiburg gallop for the coming season.

The SC supporters hoped in vain for new faces. The 21 field players and two goalkeepers included only the newcomers announced weeks earlier: national player and returnee Matthias Ginter (Borussia Mönchengladbach) and Robert Wagner from the youth team.

Streich: “Will get more players”

“We’ll get more players, and certainly not just one, the squad is getting bigger,” said SC coach Christian Streich. After all, the Europa League will mean more games than in previous seasons.

Daniel-Kofi Kyereh, the transfer of the Ghana international, was not yet part of the unit announced the SC on Monday evening.

Kevin Schade is missing for the time being

The Freiburg team will have to do without storm talent and U21 national player Kevin Schade for the time being. The 20-year-old missed several games at the end of the season due to an abdominal muscle injury and has since had surgery. According to Streich, Schade “overpaced”, needs to be physically stabilized and should first train individually. “You can’t say whether it will take three or five weeks,” said the SC coach.

Ginter is back in Freiburg

At the beginning of next week, the training ground will continue to fill up, and then the Freiburg internationals who were still on duty with their countries after the end of the season and are therefore still on vacation will get back into the game. Since Matthias Ginter had not been nominated for the Nations League games by national coach Hansi Flick, he was present at the opening training session in his old hometown of Freiburg.

Streich: “Ginter shouldn’t put too much pressure on himself”

“It’s important that he doesn’t put too much pressure on himself, that he doesn’t think he has to do something very special here in Freiburg,” emphasized Streich, “he should easily find his way back to his old strength.”

Ginter will have the first opportunity to present himself to more SC fans on Saturday (3:00 p.m.). Then the first test match against third division promoted SV Elversberg is in preparation – in the Dreisamstadion, where Ginter celebrated his professional debut.

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