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New leader? Kwasniok leaves the question of captain open
Updated on July 12th, 2025 – 5:09 p.m.Reading time: 100 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”.
Does Timo Hübers remain the captain of the 1st FC Köln? Lukas Kwasniok left this question about the first test game at SV Bergisch Gladbach (7: 1) unanswered. “Everything is open,” said the FC coach and named Hübers, who led FC last season and was also wearing the bandage on Saturday in Bergisch Gladbach, one of the candidates.
“I’m getting a picture of the team now. Of course, boys who have already hit a few battles are out of the question. Further options are likely to be goalkeeper Marvin Schwäbe, the popular Linton Maina and Eric Martel, most recently captain of the German U21 national team, popular in the team. With the latter it is still unclear whether he will leave the club this summer.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Ragnar Ache is said to contribute to the relegation in the Bundesliga with his goals for the 1st FC Köln. The center forward on Thursday, for the first time since his transfer to the billy goats, spoke about the second chance to prove himself in the Bundesliga. “I now want to show that I can do it,” said Ache after training. “It went differently a few years ago, also because of injuries. Now I want to prove that I belong to the Bundesliga.”
At Eintracht Frankfurt, numerous injuries had repeatedly thrown him back before he became the striker of the 2nd Bundesliga via Fürth and Kaiserslautern and now switched to FC. “In Frankfurt I have lost a lot of self -confidence. The steps to Fürth and Kaiserslautern helped me a lot because I played a lot there and scored goals. That was very important to me. “Now he wants to start at FC in the Bundesliga.
The 1. FC Köln has transferred Damion Downs to FC Southampton. The striker changes to the English second division team for eight million euros. The American could thus bring in a total of over ten million euros to the billy goats. On Wednesday, both clubs reported the transfer as perfect.
“We have had intensive and open conversations with Damion about a common future. We have shown him a very attractive perspective at the 1. FC Köln both from our point of view – with the clear chance of playing a central role in the Bundesliga,” said sports director Thomas Kessler and added: “However Post on our way back to the Bundesliga. “
At home with red-white stripes, completely in red in red: the portal “Inside Müngersdorf”, which recently had the home jersey of 1. FC Köln in advance, has now also published a graphic that is supposed to show the new away shirt. As a result, the billy goats will appear with simple red jerseys.
The “Geissblog” can confirm that the away jersey, which is probably officially presented during the course of this week, has completely kept in red. For the third dress, the alternative jersey, the 1. FC Köln has reportedly come up with something special.