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“Special charisma”: most expensive FC transfer now captain!
Updated on 10.09.2025 – 4:46 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Rav van den Berg is to lead the Dutch U21 national team to the European Championship. The central defender of the 1st FC Köln was appointed the new captain of Oranje on Tuesday before the start of the European Championship qualification. BondScoach Michael Statziger, former world-class defender of Ajax Amsterdam and FC Barcelona, said: “RAV has a special charisma. He is a leadership figure and a role model for the other boys with her willingness to fight.”
The FC had just hired Van Denberg for a base revenue of eight million euros from England. Including bonuses, the 21-year-old becomes the third-tax FC transfer in the club’s history. An investment that should initially pay off in the Bundesliga and later in the resale of the defense lawyer.
“We have not made a transfer of such a size at FC for a long time,” said Lukas Berg, the technical director of the promoted team, most recently in an interview with the Geissblog. This “significant investment” was not only a bet on an even higher transfer fee in the future, “but because the transfer is maximally important for us”. Against SC Freiburg, van den Berg was able to celebrate a strong Bundesliga debut (100 percent duel rate). Now the next award was followed with the appointment as captain of the Dutch U21.
Third cruciate ligament rupture: injury drama at 1. FC Köln
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Injury drama at 1st FC Köln: Luca Kilian suffered a cruciate ligament rupture for the third time in training in training for the third time in just a year and a half. This was confirmed by the billy goats after the MRI examination on Tuesday. As early as March 2024 and December 2024, the central defender had suffered a cruciate ligament tear in the same knee. How long the 26-year-old will fail is completely open.
“Luca’s renewed cruciate ligament injury. It is incredibly bitter that he is now confronted with such a serious injury for the third time,” said FC sports director Thomas Kessler in a first statement by the club: “As a FC family, we will accompany him, give him the best possible support and ensure that he finds the necessary strength to master this again. Is a fighter – he has already demonstrated this in the past.