With currently 31 players and other new potential still have pros going

By Peppi Schmitt

FRANKFURT – The "introductory trip" to America is over, the players and coaches of Frankfurt's Eintracht have again German ground under their feet. For two days, coach Adi Hütter released the players after landing Monday morning, starting Wednesday, training again. And then the countdown begins for the season. In just four weeks, the prestigious Supercup match against FC Bayern München and former coach Niko Kovac is the first game of the calendar. Until then, Eintracht still has some friendly matches on Saturday at SV Wehen Wiesbaden, then two as part of the training camp in South Tyrol Gais

The World Cup riders gradually come into the team

The new coach Eintracht every minute on the training ground and especially every minute of the private games, which in this case are really test games, can use. Hütter must test how his style of play, based on a strong offensive, fits the team. He must find how to integrate the many new players into the team and how best to compensate the departures of important players. After all, it is especially important for a multicultural troupe like Eintracht to promote the integration of the new.

It is useful for the team to be progressively completed. On Wednesday, there will certainly be two newcomers, Evan N & # 39; Dicka (AJ Auxerre) and Goncalo Pacienca (FC Porto). Back from the World Cup holiday, Luka Jovic, the only "Frankfurter" from Serbia to return from Russia after the preliminary round, will be the first to arrive. Frederik Rönnow (Denmark), Marco Fabián, Carlos Salcedo (Mexico), Gelson Fernandes (Switzerland) and Makoto Hasebe (Japan) will be next round of 16 next week

. There is no breeze for Eintracht's sporting direction these days. As soon as the United States returns, many important personnel decisions must now be made. He remains, then sports director Fredi Bobic in an interview with the picture, no time to think about their own future. Bobic's contract expires next year and it's no secret that the board wants to extend the collaboration. "The transfer phase is too important for me to talk about such things," says Bobic.

The sportsman is under pressure. In addition to potential newcomers, are always looking for a winger and a midfielder, it is necessary to "tidy up" their own team. At this moment there are already 31 players under contract at Eintracht, which are clearly too numerous even with the triple load of league, cup and European Cup. Not included, the teenager Has Sahverdi Cetin, who was suffering the aftermath of a cruciate ligament rupture, Nelson Mandela and the guest player Allan Souza, that coach Hütter wants to see a few more days. If there are really two or three new ones, it's clear that at least half a dozen professionals still have or need to go there. This is not an easy task for Bobic and manager Bruno Hübner.

The task is also complicated for the new coach. It has to reconcile new actors, new methods, a new system and high expectations. Until now, Hütter has approached the task with a lot of enthusiasm. Of course, the Austrian is still a researcher. He wants to "try a lot and do different things", is it set up. He has not yet engaged in a game system. "We have to change our game," Hütter already announced

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