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Failure confirmed: FC has to do without newcomers longer
Updated on March 17th, 2025 – 2:11 p.m.Reading time: 37 min.
The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.
The fears have been confirmed: 1. FC Köln has to do without Jusuf Gazibegovic for weeks. The Bosnian suffered an ankle injury against SV Darmstadt 98 on Saturday evening and fails “longer time” according to FC announcement.
The Bosnian also misses the internationals of his national team. In contrast, travel with Mathias Olesen (Luxembourg), Eric Martel and Jan Thielmann (German U21) and Learst Pacarada (Kosovo) four FC professionals to their national teams and are not available in training this week.
The 1. FC Köln must initially do without Jusuf Gazibegovic. The right-back was replaced in the 2-1 win against SV Darmstadt 98 with an ankle injury. Fraser Hornby slipped into the second division game on Saturday evening with an open sole in Gazibegovic and saw yellow-red.
FC coach Gerhard Struber sounds little optimistic before the MRI examination on Monday: “He is not doing well. The ankle blooms again here-after a very unclean attack.” The “billy goats” had recently had to cope with Linton Maina’s failure due to an ankle injury.
The Bundesliga women of 1st FC Köln had to accept the highest defeat under their new trainer Britta Carlson at TSG Hoffenheim. On Saturday afternoon, the Cologne women lost 1: 5 at the Dietmar Hopp Stadium. Former FC striker Selina Cerci could not be stopped for her ex-players, hit twice.
In addition, Cerci took out a penalty and a red card against Anna Gerhardt, so that the “billy goats” had to play outnumbered from the 32nd minute. Trainer Carlson was able to look forward to the first goal since she took office. It had taken a total of 374 minutes until Dora Zeller in Hoffenheim scored for the meantime 1-1.
U21 national coach Antonio di Salvo has nominated the FC professionals Eric Martel and Jan Thielmann for the upcoming caps in Slovakia (March 21) and against Spain (March 25). The EM year begins with the two test areas for the oldest youth team of the DFB.
For Martel and Thielmann, the trip to the national team means a reunion with a former teammate: Jonas Urbig, switched from Cologne to FC Bayern Munich in winter, is also nominated. With Bright Arrey-MBI (SC Braga) and Jens Castrop (1. FC Nürnberg), two other ex-FC players are part of the squad.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
The 1st FC Köln can plan again with Tim Lemperle (after muscle injury) and Eric Martel (according to infection) during the home game against SV Darmstadt on Saturday evening. According to trainer Gerhard Struber, both top performers are to return to the cuckel of the billy goats.
Struber says about striker Lemperle, who missed a total of ten competitive games: “It is the case that we have Tim available at the weekend for some stress.” While Lemperle should initially come from the bank as a joker, Martel is a hot candidate for the starting eleven.
FC has to do without Mark Uth, who only started team training on Thursday after a week’s break, the injured Damion Downs and Linton Maina as well as Luca Kilian, Julian Pauli and Jacob Christensen, who are still in rehabilitation training.