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Stuttgart (AP) - VfB Stuttgart can fall back on their central defender Waldemar Anton at the start of the 19th matchday of the Bundesliga against FSV Mainz 05 on Friday evening (8.30 p.m. / DAZN).
The use of the 24-year-old had been on the brink because of thigh problems.
Left-back Borna Sosa, who was absent from Freiburg last weekend due to muscular problems, is also back.
Captain Gonzalo Castro faces his 400th Bundesliga appearance against Rheinhessen.
Leandro Barreiro, who is injured in the ear, is missing from the guests and is represented in midfield by Edimilson Fernandes.
The Stuttgart will play the game in special jerseys.
Instead of a red one, a rainbow-colored chest ring adorns their jerseys - as a symbol of a diverse togetherness.
It is an action as part of the “Remembrance Day in German Football”, which this year particularly focuses on those people who were stigmatized and brutally persecuted as “deviant and homosexuals” in the Third Reich because of their sexual and gender identity, he said VfB.
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