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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Football professional Christopher Buchtmann from FC St. Pauli is still hoping for his comeback in the current second division season after a year-long injury break.
“I've been back in team training for two weeks and I feel fit.
If I make it into the squad, we'll have to see if it's enough for a few minutes, ”said the 29-year-old on Thursday in Hamburg.
Since he was operated on on the Achilles tendon in March 2020 - practically parallel to the corona pandemic - and was repeatedly thrown back during the rehab phase, he “didn't play a single game in front of empty ranks”.
FC St. Pauli still has three point games to play, then it goes into the summer break, for which «Buchti» has big plans. “My goal is to start earlier. Of course, I have to breathe a little too, but I'll do a little more than the others because I have a lot of catching up to do. " The long-term goal is to fight back to his regular place, preferably in the half position in the midfield diamond. “It won't be easy, of course,” he admitted, concluding that the Kiezclub is the best second division team in the second division.
In his long compulsory break, Buchtmann made important experiences, as he openly admitted.
"I realized how well you are when you are fit and can just play football," he said in retrospect.
You only learn to “really appreciate” that in such difficult phases, emphasized the long-time St. Pauli regular.
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