Injury was a secret

Player surprised Bischofshofen with findings

John Peter Sesay (left) leaves Bischofshofen after six months.

(Bild: Tröster Andreas/Kronen Zeitung)

Western League team Bischofshofen terminated the contract with John Peter Sesay. The reason? The attacking player has been injured for some time, but kept it secret from the club.

"There's a lot going on with us and not much," laughs Bischofshofen coach Thomas Schnöll. The Western League team trained until December 20, working on their fitness. After the Christmas holidays, training is set to resume on January 7. In any case, John Peter Sesay will no longer be involved. The German-Sierra Leonean attacking player and the Pongau club have agreed to terminate his contract. "It seemed strange to us that someone with so much talent only shows it so rarely," explains Schnöll. In conversation with the player, it became clear: "He has a long-term injury that we didn't know about. He showed us a report from 2023 showing that he has inflamed osteoarthritis in his lumbar vertebrae. It doesn't make sense like that, he has to see if he can still play at all."

Playmaker has extended his contract
There has been little in the way of additions at BSK so far, but that is set to change. "In any case, we need a leader with experience, somewhere in the central defender or central midfield position," emphasizes the head coach. In any case, he is delighted with the signings of playmaker Orlando-Rahim Azzef and Bohdan Kuksenko.

Things are quiet in the neighboring community of St. Johann, and should remain so. Only Aboubacar Cisse (to St. Johann in Tirol) and Nico Taschwer (to Carinthia) are leaving the club. "We don't have to get players by hook or by crook, it has to fit. We also have a lot of 1b players who we use again and again," emphasizes coach Andreas Scherer, who also knows that Kadir Özkan, a veteran, will return in the spring after tearing his cruciate ligament.