LASK fans approaching Liverpool: “Once and never again”

“Everything is well organized, the lift is off. I only came back from a business trip on Wednesday and saw the planes already standing outside,” says Roland Gruber from Pucking, who, like a total of around 1,500 LASK fans, was in one of the Eight fan planes made their way to Liverpool on match day, departing from Hörsching every 45 minutes from 5:45 a.m. on Wednesday. And full of hope. “There are a lot of expectations – we expect a victory. At least a winner of the hearts,” says Julian Köglberger from Neuhofen/Krems.

The LASK players today, like Josef Hörschläger from Rohrbach, have to overcome their pain threshold: “It’s crazy, I’m a little sick, I almost couldn’t fly. Now I have to do a little bit of improvement at the doctor’s office so that I can fly with you.” says the “Hörschi”, as he is called at Linz airport, but unlike the other passengers, he is not allowed to drink anything on the doctor’s advice. He wrote down his greatest wish in English on a sign. An appeal of friendship to the fans in Liverpool.

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“We all want to see beautiful football.” Pamela Mara from Gutau also sums up the reason for the flight to Liverpool perfectly: “It’s just really exciting, when do you experience something like that? Once and never again. That’s why I really wanted to be there. If you spend the first 60 minutes “If you’ve seen it, then you know that we have a great team this year.” Everything worked fine. At 12.45 the eighth and last flight took off from Hörsching towards Liverpool.