After a lifetime: VfB Friedrichshafen zurück in Europa

After a year of European abstinence, the VfB Friedrichshafen will play in the CEV Volleyball Cup with the international Parkett on Donnerstag, November 14 at 4:30 PM. “Ein bisschen Gänsehaut wird das chon geben”, is happy with Sportdirector Radomir Vemic auf the Moment, auf the Mannschaft in der Vorsaison and the Team um the Team im Summer hinge work haben. “It is an important message for our city, for our sponsors, for the fans and of course for our people.”

For the run of the letzten 64 Mannschaften in CEV Volleyball that gives a player a free time, you can say that you are in the Sechzehntelfinal with Mladost Zagreb. VfB-Geschäftsführer Thilo Späth-Westerholt sees his Mannschaft “as slight favorites” at the Club from the Croatian Hauptstadt. Look, weil Friedrichshafens Ivan Zeljkovic was with Zagreb Meister wurde and fell Gegner von Donnerstag schon as Mannschaftskollegen hatte. “It’s one of the best things, Ivan has played a lot of Spieler and our tips can be given,” says chief coach Adam Swaczyna.

VfB is qualified as the owner of the King’s class

Trotz sportlicher qualification for the Champions League-tritt de Mannschaft in the zwitklassesige CEV Cup and. Warum? Weil the Hallenkapazität of the secret Spacetech-Arena not the Anforderungen in the Königsklasse. “Sport will be more important for the Champions League qualifiers, but will be more important for small Halle, found at 2500 Zuschauer Platz,” said Späth-Westerholt. If you play die Grund war Friedrichshafen on the back of the Champions League over the years, you go to the match. “There is an extreme war for all interests,” said the VfB-Geschäftsführer, who still has no interest in the bitter struggle of the company: “That is true, but the war is an unausweichlich.”

The cost for the animation of Fremdhallen with the ratiopharm Arena in Neu-Ulm – one of the best for the Verein. The 30,000 euros for the Heimspiel would have won the Späth-Westerholt issue, “wirtschaftlich nicht leistbar”. The VfB has joined the European association board CEV “alles versucht”, like the 37 years, the Verein was for its own Arena, that for 1000 Fans Platz, no Freigabe.

And in those seasons, the power over the unbridled situation in Friedrichshafen is a strich by the rechnung, in the premier class of other games. “We can continue a year for a while, but we can qualify sportingly, the Champions League will be the very last moment at the moment,” said Späth-Westerholt. The device has a longer lifespan and statistics that work hingedly, when the CEV Cup is started with starting the device.

“International sparrows we don’t miss”

That’s the VfB in Croatia, but there’s no night. With a separate Rückspiel in a week (November 20, 8 p.m.), the German Vizemeister is ready for his own Publikum in Rücken. However, if the VfB were to empty the foundation for the final matches in the Achtelfinal. “Our old feature films play a role and go to the normal course of events,” says Swaczyna, who no longer plays the Belastung. “Those who travel often will not help us, but will end up on a good path.”

Perspective see if the 13-time German champion of course wieder in the Champions League: “I am a moment that the situation will disappear like that, as it is,” said Späth-Westerholt. First of all, the VfB will be “so weit wie möglich kommen” in the CEV Cup, and: “International should not miss out.”