Perhaps you have to start with a story about the third division’s football league game. People who are closer to FC Bayern or Liverpool FC than Erzgebirge Aue could otherwise sit on false ideas. So: the season is a professional league, which guarantees a certain sporting level. It is full to the brim with trimmed traditional clubs, whose fans of course have died off, at least 11,500 spectators look at the games on average. Four clubs – Dynamo Dresden, Alemannia Aachen, Hansa Rostock and Arminia Bielefeld – even welcome over 20,000 curious per game.
Energie Cottbus, which was first class for six seasons between 2000 and 2009, naturally reported “sold out” at the weekend, after all it was against Dynamo Dresden. And thus around one of many rather unironic rivalries in this division. In both fan camps you could see a lot of dark -looking man’s people, which not only runs into the gym several times a week for aesthetic reasons. The sum of police helicopters was over the city three hours before kick -off. And if you find a good reason that there is often too much police in football in football, you have to rethink something in this game. After all, it remained peaceful, so that the Cottbus coach Claus-Dieter Wollitz was able to say a “compliment to both fan camps” for “the focus was on the game”.
Anything else would have been a shame. Because if you don’t have fun on these 90 minutes, you are really better off in front of the TV on a Champions League Wednesday. In this league with a structurally built -in competition, in which the youngsters of Borussia Dortmund and VfB Stuttgart have the most valuable squad, the comparatively wealthy Dresden and the clammy hosts fought a great game. This was mainly due to Cottbus, which played in attack mode for over 90 minutes in accordance with his image over 90 minutes. And if you thought that the long -term runners had to go out after an hour, you saw yourself deceived. Because after the same hour, Stefan Kutschke shot the – undeserved – Dresden lead. By the way, the carriage, in which you don’t really know whether he only became dynamo fan at birth or maybe it was before.
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However, it would almost have been enough for a Cottbus victory if Timmy Thiele’s header had landed a few centimeters under the crossbar in added time. But already his 1: 1 equalization (86th) had dramaturgical and acoustically equally high potential: after the game, people who live far from one and a half kilometers away from one and a half kilometers that they have clearly heard. It is all the more astonishing how quickly the adrenaline reduction in the two trainers is. Thomas Stamm, the Dresden coach, correctly emphasized that he had to be “more than satisfied with the point”, and oracaked that “one point could still be very valuable here”. That is true, after all, Cottbus and Dresden lie in first and two of the table after the 21st matchday and would therefore move up directly to the second division, the 1. FC Saarbrücken is third.
The likelihood that the second division will soon be richer by two other traditional clubs is correspondingly high. And if there were a team underneath again that was only briefly in the third division, that would certainly not be a sensation. Anyone who saw how skillfully the promoted Cottbus attacked and at no time forgot their balance to defend them can imagine the team in the second division. That energy played in the fourth -class regional league northeast last season? No reason not to rise again, as you have learned in recent years. It has been getting used to the fact that teams only need one year to get from the fourth to the second division. Last summer, SSV Ulm 1846 and Prussia Münster rose two clubs that had kicked against Steinbach Haiger and Rödinghausen the previous year. SV Elversberg had also previously taken this direct path.
However, the man, whom one is most likely connected with Energie Cottbus, should then accompany an ascent with mixed feelings. Wollitz was a coach in Lusatia a total of three times over several years, and since 2022 he has also been working as a sporting director for energy. From June, the open-hearted coach, who would have worked as an energy trainer for over 4000 days, actually wants to limit itself to the manager. In any case, the cult trainer of the association, Ede Geyer, has already rounded off.
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