Has been missing for four months
Captain Christian Günter, who has been injured for a long time, hopes to be able to return to SC Freiburg team training in January. “I’m back on the pitch, I can train with the ball again and get my fitness back,” said the 30-year-old at the stadium microphone before the South Baden team’s Bundesliga game against 1. FC Köln on Sunday. The doctors would have to decide when he could return: “It all depends on the healing, on the bones.”
Günter had two consecutive forearm fractures and an infection and has been out for almost four months. “I’m feeling pretty good again now,” said the left-back. The time was “very, very hard”. Günter isn’t going away during the winter break because his wife is expecting their second child.
The national player hopes to be able to play for Breisgauer again in the second round of the Europa League, which will be drawn on Monday and takes place in mid-February. On Saturday, Günter reported back via Instagram and reported on “a long, difficult time of uncertainty, with many ups and downs and some very dark moments for me.”
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“It wasn’t funny what happened over the course of months. He has had several operations. That’s why we’re extremely happy that he’s feeling better,” said SC coach Christian Streich on “DAZN”. According to the 58-year-old, it’s now about building muscles and working on fitness. “Then he can get back into team training. I don’t want to make a prediction. Now we hope it continues like this.”
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