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The Bavarians took care of business domestically and in Europe and might have gotten over the hump from being a really good team to a great team in the process.

Everything seemed ready to go, but at 16:00 CEST on the dot at Schenckendorffplatz torrential rain started to pour down. A classic summer storm prevented the planned start of the Blue-White’s pre-season out on the pitch. Anticipation ahead of the new season, which is reflected by the amount of season ticket sales so far, was also reflected by around 200 fans who had come to watch training, but the weather didn’t allow for the original plan and improvisation was needed. Instead, the players worked inside doing some gym work. “A proper training session would’ve been better in giving me a direct picture of the new players, because every second counts,” explained Pál Dárdai, who will lead the time for a sixth season. For the head coach as well as the supporters, there will be more more opportunities to watch the boys putting in the hard yards in the coming days. “People love this club and support us. If we can work well as a coaching team and everything grows together it will be worth coming again because then we will see a team built on mentality with character that gives everything for Hertha BSC. That is the first step before we can state any goals,” emphasised the head coach.

Pellegrino Matarazzo came to the photo shoot for the first SPIELFELD issue of the 2023/24 season on his Vespa. The flag of Italy, his parents’ country of origin, adorns his helmet. A piece of home in his adopted homeland. Matarazzo enjoys the quiet in the Kraichgau; he already built a house here before he became the head coach in Hoffenheim.

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VfB Stuttgart recorded a comfortable 4-0 win away at TSG Balingen to progress to the second round of the DFB Cup.

Approximately 28 kilometres separate 1. FC Union’s Alte Försterei stadium and the Mommsenstadion, which will host the Green-and-Whites’ DFB Cup first-round tie against TuS Makkabi Berlin on Sunday 13 August (kick-off 15:30 CEST). It marks VfL’s second consecutive cup game in the German capital, following last season’s round of 16 defeat at Union, although this time around the situation is rather different. The Wolves have contested 116 DFB Cup fixtures to date, including two finals, but in Makkabi Berlin they are meeting the first Jewish club to feature in the competition, out of 880 participating teams so far. 

The scenario: BVB lost the reverse fixture in Bietigheim 35-22. The clear victory in Metzingen had given BVB a four-point cushion ahead of HSG Blomberg-Lippe going into the big game against Bietigheim. The gap behind second-placed Thüringer HC was also four points.

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The DFB-Pokal is where heroes are made and underdogs prevail, like in David and Goliath. Christian Groß has been involved in both sides of this. During his spell with VfL Osnabrück in 2017, Groß knocked Hamburger SV out of the competition in the first round and narrowly missed out on a place in the final with Werder in 2021. “Everyone is capable of achieving great things”, urged the midfielder. “The first round of the Pokal is the biggest game of the season for many lower-level teams.”