Pinzgau coach search

“We’re having just as much trouble as Bayern”

Bayern boss Freund does not yet have a coach either.

(Bild: GEPA pictures)

FC Pinzgau Saalfelden is still looking for a coach. There should be news this week. Bischofshofen goes on the offensive after rejection, wrote an e-mail to the ÖFB.

FC Pinzgau and the search for a coach - a complicated story. Johannes Schützinger will leave the Western League club in the summer, but it remains to be seen who will succeed him. "It's really not easy to find someone", says section manager Hannes Rottenspacher. A "compatriot" has also been looking for a new coach for quite some time now: FC Bayern Munich sports director Christoph Freund, who is known to come from Leogang. "Of course, we don't compare ourselves to Bayern," laughs Rottenspacher, "but we're having just as much trouble finding a coach as they are."

Nevertheless, he sees light at the end of the tunnel. "If everything goes well, we'll be able to present a new coach next week. We are already in very good talks with one candidate."

Gvozdjar suspended
The talks with Semir Gvozdjar are less positive. The attacker had verbally agreed a contract extension with Saalfelden, but has now signed with Austria Salzburg. "That's not a good approach. I assume that he will be with us next season," said Rottenspacher. Gvozdjar was suspended for the last three games.

Pajic (left) and Grünau drew 2-2 against Silz/Mötz.

(Bild: Andreas Tröster)

Bischofshofen also have a complicated story to contend with. As there are only 46 hours between the West League games on Thursday (in Altach) and Saturday (in Grünau), BSK requested a postponement to Sunday for the Grünau game. As Flachgau - who drew 2-2 with Silz/Mötz on Sunday - have been planning their end-of-season party on this date for weeks and have already spent 5,000 euros on it, the idea has met with little approval. The Westliga commission also sees no need for action: "The match schedule has been known for months," it said in a press release.

BSK boss Patrick Reiter is now going on the offensive: "We will lodge a protest with the ÖFB. There, competent soccer experts will decide in the interests of the sport. Because this is simply dangerous to health, even in the Bundesliga it is not allowed to play twice within 48 hours. And we are an amateur club."