For ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick, the football year 2022 is going into overtime: After the end of the international game year, he will get to know the next generation in Croatia from today.
Yesterday the German looked after the ÖFB team in Vienna in the test against Italy, until Friday he will be on the training ground together with U21 team boss Werner Gregoritsch in Pula, where 29 players born between 2000 and 2005 made a good impression in the first course for perspective players want.
Matthias Seidl from Blau-Weiß Linz will be there in Pula. The 21-year-old recommended himself with twelve goals in 16 games in the second division. “First and foremost for the player, but also for us as a club, this is a great honor and also a reward for the work of the last two and a half years,” said blue and white sports director Tino Wawra proudly. “It shows that the way we are currently playing football and the philosophy that we have implemented at the club did not go unnoticed by the ÖFB team boss.”
Sturm loan Luca Kronberger moves in from SV Guntamatic Ried, from LASK Tobias Lawal. The 22-year-old is considered the designated successor to Alexander Schlager should the captain leave the athletes after his contract expires in the summer. There is also an Upper Austrian who is waiting for his chance at Wolfsberg: Lukas Gütlbauer, who was born in Kirchdorf, was named the best goalkeeper in the second division when he was loaned to FAC last season and switched to the Bundesliga side in the summer.
“My special thanks go to the clubs in the Austrian Bundesliga for the good cooperation and the willingness to release their players,” said ÖFB sports director Peter Schöttel. “Since there is no obligation to park during this period, we were unfortunately not able to achieve this with the foreign clubs in every case.”
Trio didn’t get clearance
Players from nations that are not represented at the World Cup do not have to be released by their clubs in November. There is only one FIFA recommendation. According to Schöttel, Muhammed Cham (Clermont), Flavius Daniliuc (Salernitana) and Emanuel Aiwu (Cremonese) would have been available for the perspective course. “The squad does not claim to be complete, there are also many other players on our watch list,” explained Schöttel. But he thinks that you can take “an interesting mix” with you to the course.
ÖFB | perspective squad
goal club
Niklas Hedl (21 years old) Rapid
Tobias Lawal (22) LASK
Lukas Gütlbauer (21) Wolfsberg
defense
Jonas Auer (22) Rapid
Samson Baidoo (18) Salzburg
Luca Pazourek (17) Austria Vienna
Leopold Querfeld (18) Rapid
Jakob Schöller (16) Admira
Lukas Sulzbacher (22) Tyrol
midfield
Thierno Ballo (20) Wolfsberg
Matthias Braunoeder (20) Austria Vienna
Yusuf Demir (19) Galatasaray Istanbul
Zeteny Jano (17) Liefering
Dijon Kameri (18) Salzburg
Benjamin Kanoric (19) Bielefeld
Justin Omoregie (19) Salzburg
Tristan Osmani (17) Schalke
Moritz Oswald (20) Rapid
Manuel Polster (19) Austria Vienna
Benedict Scharner (17) St. Polten
Matthias Seidl (21) Blue and White Linz
Nikolas Veratschnig (19) Wolfsberg
Paul Wanner (16) Bayern Munich
Moritz Wels (18) Sturm Graz
attack
Noah Bishop (19) Altach
Elias Havel (19) Liefering
Luca Kronberger (20) Ried
Christoph Lang (20) Sturm Graz
Bernhard Zimmermann (20) Rapid
Source: Nachrichten
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