Performances first, then the article: NORTH Both Yanks with shutout wins on the road. VfL Osnabrück with Enochs over full 90 won 3-0 at Werder Bremen’s reserves. The win moves Osnabrück to the second rank, which would make them promote if it was nine games later now. SC Verl with Maurer won 1-0 at 1.FC Cologne’s reserves. Maurer went full 90, see the article below for further information. Verl landed an important win as with a loss they’d be on a relegation spot now; that way they have three points distance and are 12th. SOUTH No positive weekend for the Yanks here. Already on Friday, Elversberg lost a road match in Erfurt 0-2. Payne and Lawson went full 90, while Mason came in after 66 minutes. This loss moves them back to the relegation zone. Neunkirchen suffered another loss, this time 0-1 at home against Stuttgarter Kickers; Shoffner had his first minutes this year after he came in in the 77th. Good chances for him to get some more playing time as two of his team maters were ejected and will most likely be out for four weeks now. Siegen at least scored a goal in the 1-2 road loss at FC Augsburg; Lukin started as left mid this time, but was substituted after 81 minutes; Siegen now is 12th with 6 pts distance to the relegation spots. Wehen without the suspended Matarazzo at least surprised and defeated the second Regensburg 1-0 and overtook Siegen in the ranking (11). Dooley’s 1.FC Saarbrücken had the weekend off, which has the consequence that they still did not win this year and meanwhile dropped to rank 9 while starting as 3rd into the 2003 season part. Now the Maurer article, taken from the local press today: Attitude: Brei moves the spotlight on Maurer Usually SCV Coach Dieter Brei avoids performance evaluations of his players after the end of the game, but the 52 year old did an exception on Saturday in Cologne’s Südstadion. Adam Maurer, two weeks ago substituted in Essen with a dislocated shoulder, showed his personal attitude to soccer on Saturday. “I have highest respect for Adam Maurer, I also told it to him in a four eyes conversation. Any other player would lie in the hospital today. Many players in Germany can take him as an idol.”, said Brei. The extremely quick development of the US Boy in the past months at the Poststraße is indeed astonishing. He started as cheap transfer, who at the beginning had to hear some mockery, and turned to a low paid regular player, who yet doesn’t know how it goes on at the Poststraße and if the club uses the option [they want to switch to half-pros due to the financial situation]. Adam Maurer also impressed in Cologne with his quickness and athleticism. For a defender, who is always in the center of the happenings, the sympathetic US-Boy is obviously very fair in the one on one situations.
Maurer pics in the papers today: http://www.die-glocke.de/glocke/Bilder/mau.jpg http://www.nw-news.de/Bilder/NW/gross/20030408/2119450001-1.jpg (no.3)