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“It will always be difficult in the quarter finals. We know that Eintracht are extremely strong at home. Nevertheless, we want to try to make it to the semi-finals.”

VfL Wolfsburg are seen as a leader when it comes to social projects, with the club using its reputation as a Bundesliga football club for a number of years now, most notably to bring socially relevant topics to light. Plenty of male and female players have committed to working as ambassadors or sponsors for foundations and charitable associations.

Stefanie Scheibe, Hannah Goosmann, Annika Billig, Luisa Bergmann, Denise Pörteners, Allegra Gerres, Annika Fälker and Annika Herbig are leaving the women’s senior team.

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No one was sat with their feet up at the WWK ARENA during the international break. In fact, quite the opposite: head coach Jess Thorup used the time off to analyse the past few league games. “We needed this week to improve on every aspect of our game,” explained the 53-year-old. Since joining the club, Thorup has overseen a clear improvement in the team’s performance both in and out of possession, as well as in their challenge success rate. Nevertheless, the head coach is not willing to rest on his laurels following the recent wins. “There are many things that we can improve on. Our desire to win always has to be present,” the Dane emphasised. One major target still remains, which is to come away with a clean sheet for the first time this season.”

Only Arne Maier and Masaya Okugawa will be absent from the squad due to prolonged injury spells. A serious injury was ruled out during the week for the Japanese midfielder, who had to be brought off around 20 minutes into the 5-2 friendly win over SSV Jahn Regensburg. “For Arne, it will take another couple of weeks, but he’s already got his boots on and is back on the training pitch,” shared Thorup.

A report that Forbes captured said that the Catalan brass think that the Bayern Munich summer arrival has not met the lofty expectations that were, well, expected from him. Although this is considering the fact that his 15 strikes in La Liga is four better than Real Madrid counterpart Karim Benzema.

Hosting six young talents from the New York Red Bulls | Brazilian fans from Bragantino at the Cottaweg | Watched the home game against Freiburg

The 18-year-old Japanese youth international will join VfB’s U21 side in time for the second half of the season.

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