Fistball title race under the sign of change

Curtain up for the 1st Indoor Fistball Bundesliga, in which the final stop will be Sehnsucht Enns: The Final 3 tournament will take place there on February 23rd and 24th. The big hunted are of course the defending champions – the women from Union Nußbach and the men from Union Compact Freistadt, who start on Saturday (5 p.m.) with home advantage against Seekirchen and Kremsmünster. “Of course we feel a bit of pressure, but it makes us greedy. We know what we can do,” emphasizes U21 European champion Marcel Wiesinger.

Forecasts are difficult because the preparation period was characterized by change. The Enns men have to play Markus Reinegger and the national player Gustav Gürtler, who has an ankle injury, for a longer time. Vöcklabruck is without his teammate Max Huemer because he wants to play in the second team out of the shadow of top attacker Karl Müllehner.

“Regardless, we want to build on the great successes from 2017 to 2022, where we dominated in the hall,” said coach Michael Feichtenschlager before the home opener against field champions FBC Urfahr and Laa/Thaya.

The FG Grieskirchen/Pötting, under the direction of Hubert Schatzl, who has taken over the coaching stool from Markus Kraft and will initially have to do without Lukas Eidenhammer (he is in South America), is aiming to stay in the league. This is also due to the fact that ex-national player Simon Lugmair will soon be a dad and will only be able to play sporadically.

Arnreit’s women also have a new supervisor in player-coach Magdalena Bauer, but they have to cope with a few absences (like Lea Hartl). Freistadt is relying on neo-attacker Cecilia Jaques, Laakirchen on Kathrin Wirt.

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