The sporting situation: As already indicated, the South Germans are one place and one point behind our Old Lady after 26 match days. The Fiél team scored 36 points in the league, six of them so far in March, where they had successes in Magdeburg (1:0) and against Braunschweig (2:1) before the recent defeat against leaders St. Pauli (0:2). . Now the aim is to add as many points as possible in the final stretch of the league, after the round of 16 against Kaiserslautern in the DFB Cup was the final stop (0:2). “It’s now important to play football as successfully as possible,” says the football teacher before the business trip to the Spree. The former midfielder expects “a nice task that we are happy to take on!”
The Nurembergs in focus: It makes sense to mention Can Uzun in this section. The great talent is by far the best goalscorer with his 13 goals this season, has been in the spotlight for months and also made his debut in the Turkish national team in March. The 18-year-old is an example of Nuremberg’s well-filled talent pool. “1. FC Nürnberg is currently more of a development club than a club that can buy ready-made players. We have to and can live with that quite well if we manage to keep developing young players at the same time,” says sports director Olaf Rebbe. Further examples of this approach: Nathaniel Brown, Jens Castrop, Nathaniel Brown and Finn Jeltsch, who have already been signed by Frankfurt. Midfielder Castrop, who moved to the south from Cologne before the season, has established himself in the team and made his debut in the DFB U21 during the international break. U17 world and European champion Jeltsch made his debut in the first team in February, was in the starting line-up four times in a row and immediately impressed.