Women's soccer

Home win in derby for Pinzgau’s interim coaches

Saalfelden 1b became Salzburg women's champions in the spring, and the new season also began with a win in the 2nd division.

(Bild: FC Pinzgau)

Curious, but nevertheless: At the start of the 2nd Women's Bundesliga, both coaches left the Salzburg derby. In the end, the home side celebrated a 2-0 win, while "Nordstern" Geretsberg/Bürmoos lost an important player.

For Pinzgau (with four Americans), Seckin Türkcan stood in for Chris Sydney, who was not yet in Salzburg, on the touchline. "He will join the team over the summer, as will a few more players," manager Angelika Amon-Haas told the Krone. Meanwhile, Geretsberg/Bürmoos were coached by Viktoria Felber and "co-coach" Alexandra Aichner. The actual new coach, Holger Bauer, was only parted ways with by mutual agreement on Friday due to differences of opinion. "He didn't get on so well with the team," explained section manager Oliver Hauer.

Key player retired, Pinzgau first leaders
In the game itself, the Saalfelden team, which featured many locals and talented players, initially took a defensive approach. The best chance was missed by long-time international Amber Huff from a free-kick. Bitter: When Jennifer Mayr (later given a cast in hospital) injured her ankle for the understrength visitors, runners-up Pinzgau struck: Huff provided two ideal assists for Söllner (63) and Ottino (68) - 2:0. As one match was called off, the FCPS ladies are the first league leaders in the new season, level on points and goals with Wacker Innsbruck.

"We want to develop the youngsters and stay in the league. Of course, a win at the start will help us enormously," said Amon-Haas. Aichner said: "Our goal is to stay in the league. We could definitely have done better today, but unfortunately it didn't work out."

A resounding win and draw at the home opener
Bundesliga side Bergheim got off to their first home draw - 0-0 against FC Lustenau/FC Dornbirn. Meanwhile, the second suit - Red Bull U-20 since this year - also won its second game in the Future League, dispatching AKA Vorarlberg-FC Lustenau 7-0 at home.