Baden-Württemberg: Only Ginter there: SCF looking for further reinforcements

Freiburg started the pre-season with Matthias Ginter.

Baden-Württemberg: Only Ginter there: SCF looking for further reinforcements

Freiburg started the pre-season with Matthias Ginter. Coach Streich has advice for the returnee and expects more newcomers. With an attacking player it could happen very quickly.

Freiburg (dpa / lsw) - After the great euphoria surrounding the DFB Cup final, SC Freiburg is calmer again. Not several thousand, as at the reception after the lost final, but just around 50 fans lined the training ground at the Europa-Park stadium on Monday morning for the Freiburg gallop for the coming season. The SC supporters hoped in vain for new faces.

The 21 field players and two goalkeepers included only the newcomers announced weeks earlier: national player and returnee Matthias Ginter (Borussia Mönchengladbach) and Robert Wagner from the youth team. "We'll get more players, and certainly not just one, the squad is getting bigger," said SC coach Christian Streich. After all, the Europa League will mean more games than in previous seasons.

Streich expects further reinforcements before leaving for the training camp in Schruns (Austria) next Wednesday. According to media reports, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh (FC St. Pauli) is already in Freiburg for a medical check-up, which was not confirmed by the sports club.

The Freiburg team will have to do without storm talent and U21 national player Kevin Schade for the time being. The 20-year-old missed several games at the end of the season due to an abdominal muscle injury and has since had surgery. According to Streich, Schade "overpaced", needs to be physically stabilized and should first train individually. "You can't say whether it will take three or five weeks," said the SC coach.

At the beginning of next week, the training ground will continue to fill up, and then the Freiburg internationals who were still on duty with their countries after the end of the season and are therefore still on vacation will get back into the game. Since Matthias Ginter had not been nominated for the Nations League games by national coach Hansi Flick, he was present at the opening training session in his old hometown of Freiburg.

"It's important that he doesn't put too much pressure on himself, that he doesn't think he has to do something very special here in Freiburg," emphasized Streich, "he should easily find his way back to his old strength". Ginter will have the first opportunity to present himself to more SC fans on Saturday (3 p.m.). Then the first test match against third division promoted SV Elversberg is in preparation - in the Dreisamstadion, where Ginter celebrated his professional debut.