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Six games, six victories: This is the most successful FC team
Updated on 03/22/2025 – 12:58 p.m.Reading time: 39 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”.
While all other teams of 1st FC Köln are pausing this weekend, the U17 of the “billy goats” got the next victory. In the DFB youth league, the talents trained by Manuel Hartmann won 5-0 against Augsburg at the start of the main round round. The goals scored Benjamin Ley (28th minute), Milan Nikolic with a hat trick (43./52./55.) And Josias Simon (76.).
The U17 is currently the most successful FC team. In the sixth main round game, the B-juniors celebrated the sixth victory. According to the four remaining league charges, the German championship is played in co-mode, starting with the round of 16. Just as the Cologne people are currently presenting, you can have a say in the fight for the title.
Luca Waldschmidt wishes to remain at 1. FC Köln, but provides his future with a question mark. “When we climb, it is my absolute goal to stay at FC,” says Waldschmidt in an interview with the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. If the return to the Bundesliga fails, the 28-year-old’s contract contains an exit clause.
But even for the promotion case, Waldschmidt, who most recently scored the Cologne winning goal against Ulm and Darmstadt, does not want to define 100 percent. Although he assumes to stay at FC, he refers to his unsatisfactory operating times. “I love the club, the city and I want nothing better than we are successful. But in the end it’s my career. I want to play,” says the offensive player, who has only stood in Gerhard Struber’s starting eleven eleven times.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Next setback for 1. FC Köln: The billy goats have to do without Dominique Heintz for the time being. The central defender suffered a muscle injury in his thigh on Wednesday. The veteran will fail for the time being and will probably miss the games at SC Paderborn and against Prussia Münster.
But that’s not all: on Thursday in the test game against SC Verl – FC lost 1: 2 after weak performance – Mark Uth could not be used. The striker that is prone to injury had to stop warming up after feeling a stab in the calf. Now Uth has to be examined in more detail.
Jusuf Gazibegovic will probably no longer be available to 1st FC Köln this season. The newcomer threatens the seasonal off because of a syndesmoseriss. This was confirmed by coach Gerhard Struber at the Geißbockheim on Wednesday. The winter newcomer to the billy goats had seriously injured 98 in the home game against SV Darmstadt.
“This is a slap in the face. We’re talking about a syndamic tape tear. He will not be available to us for a long time,” said Struber, although the Austrian did not want to write off the Bosnier when the forecast. “I would not sign the season out yet. He will do everything possible to get back early. It will take some time. Let’s see if one or the other game will go out.”
In the absence of his international and the injured actors such as Linton Maina and Jusuf Gazibegovic, Gerhard Struber promoted some young players to the professional training of 1st FC Köln. Mikail Özkan, Emin Kujovic, Oliver Schmitt and Justin von der Hitz are currently filling up the squad.
Özkan, Kujovic and Schmitt, all at home in the U21, had always been there in the past few weeks. But for Von der Hitz, who is presenting himself in top shape at the Cologne U19 this season, it is the first time that he can show himself under coach Struber with the professionals.