Alemannia Aachen Season Preview

This should be a new start for Alemannia Aachen into a better future because after some great years they were in a huge downtrend in the past and this should be stopped now. Their focuse go ahead but if they are able to play a good role in this league, we have to wait a bit but they should !!

Preview

It’s an absolutely great story about Alemannia Aachen but not with a happy end as in many good cine films. They wrote their own history, especially in the last 10 years where they surprised a lot where they knocked out Bayern Munich from Cup two times and was in Cup Final one time. Also they played international in European League which was a great expierence for the most of their players. They did well for years but their biggest success was the promotion for 1.Bundesliga 2006. They had some great matches and got some good results too but overall they annoyed many Favorites in their Stadium. This was because the old Tivoli was one of the closest stadiums and the atmosphere was phenomenal there. Indeed they played only one year in 1.Bundesliga but were a big asset for the league. Despite of relegation they looked very hopefully into the future but after the new stadium was realized 2009 the downfall has begun. The new Tivoli was bigger and a modern stadium but the atmosphere has suffered a lot. The stronghold of former days was past and the opponents had no fear to play on new Tivoli now. Also the costs for the new Tivoli were huge and they have to pay a lot in the next years what has carry the squad in the past and future years. In order to be survivable they have to save money and hit costs down. 2010 they reinstall inexperienced manager Meijer who was one of the cult players there. His first official act was to sign Peter Hyballa as coach. A young and unknown man which stands for good and offense football. On the other side they build up a very young and talented team which did a good job 2010/2011. For 2011/2012 they lost a lot of important players like Stieber and Höger, also Top Scorer Auer was far away from last year performance. After a long period without any success coach Hyballa was sucked, Funkel came but also without any success while youth coach Aussem was on the line in the end of the season. All together was a big sum up which Aachen involved into relegation battle and was relegated in the end.

The Squad
Through relegation no one of the players and so on had a contract for 3.Bundesliga and new season. It was clear that this will be a big change now for Alemannia although many players gave their word to stick with in the future. Manager Meijer has to leave and new one Scherr was signed. Also many players left like: David Odonkor, Anouar Hadouir, Benjamin Auer, Tobias Feisthammel, Timo Achenbach, Kevin Kratz, David Hohs, Boy Waterman, Bilal Cubkcu, Sergiu Radu, Mirko Casper, Alper Ulidag, Andreas Korte, Kevin Maek, Kim Falkenberg, Manuel Junglas, Bas Sibum, Jonas Strifler, Fabian Bäcker, Shervin Radjabali-Fardi, Reinhold Yabo, Marco Stiepermann.
Additional some players can be convinced to play for Aachen next season above all Sascha Rösler (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and Kai Schwertfeger (Fortuna Düsseldorf) both of them should be one of the better players in this league. Moreover they sigend Sascha Marquet (Alemannia Aachen II), Denis Pozder (Alemannia Aachen II), Mark Flekken (own U19), Dario Schuhmacher (own U19), Robert Leipert (own U19), Fabian Baumgärtel (on loan from SpVgg Greuther Fürth), Sascha Herröder (VfR Aalen), Marcel Heller (VfL Bochum), Timo Brauer (Rot-Weiss Essen), Timmy Thiele (Schalke 04 II), Kristoffer Andersen (FC Ingolstadt II), Michael Melka (Rot-Weiß Oberhausen), Freddy Borg (FC Hansa Rostock).
 

Coach

Aussem comes from the youth team from Alemannia and he took over after Funkel was sucked last season but he made a good job so far and the fans like him. In this case they start with him into new season because he knows the club very well too. His system is not out yet. 

Prediction

Alemannia Aachen’s squad has a tremendous quality in width and the supporters are euphoric about the new season because over 6.000 season tickets are sold so far. Many coaches of the 20 teams predict Alemannia Aachen as one of the top teams in the league and also as one of the promotion candidates. Aachen should be very proud about the trust from other coaches or teams but everyone knows what that means. Additional pressure which can lead to failure, see SV Wehen-Wiesbaden last season. They were top candidate but failed huge. But Alemannia can not afford slip ups, because of the financial burden of the stadium, must be at least a quick return to the second division. All in all they should be ready and able too. Predict: 1.-3. place.