The previous season in the Upper Austria League did not go according to plan for SPG Friedburg/Pöndorf. Throughout the first half of the season, which was marked by many injuries and close defeats, coach Robert Pessentheiner’s team never really got going. In the end, the syndicate ended the fall season with 17 points in 13th place after the 4-2 derby defeat in the last first round game against Ostermiething. Vice President Josef Lugstein announced last week in the OÖN conversation explained. Now the SPG has announced on its Facebook page that coach Robert Pessentheiner has parted ways by mutual agreement. “Both sides agree that new impetus is needed to get out of the relegation regions as quickly as possible in the spring,” the club said in the broadcast.
future still open
The new sports coordinator, Franz Aigner, takes over the Friedburg coaching scepter. The former national team player and Austria-Salzburg kicker will start working in the sporting double function on January 1st. “Dhe previous head coach looked after the squad for the last 3.5 years after it was promoted to the Upper Austrian league and did a very good job with considerable success”, the club thanks ex-coach Pessentheiner. He is largely satisfied with his past work in Friedburg. But: “We analyzed the first half of the season soberly and found that the points score was simply not satisfactory,” says Pessentheiner in the OÖN interview. But there are also explainable reasons for this: “We’ve never had a game this season fewer than four injured. At the top there were sometimes seven or eight players missing. Of course that has an effect on the results.” He still leaves his sporting future open: “I’ll enjoy the time now that I don’t have to think about football. You have to see what happens. As they say? Where one door closes, another opens…”
Source: Nachrichten
