Saturday, 14th March 2009 - kick-off time 14.30
Friendly match
Result: 3:5 after 40 min. - Halftime 2:0
Goals: don’t know
Bookings: none
Sent-offs: none
Stadium: Eberhardt-Kannegießer-Stadion (cap. 400; 100 seated)
Attendance: 40 (10 away fans)
Match quality: 5.5/10 (O.K.)
SV Allstedt 11:1 RC de Lichtstad (Eindhoven)
Saturday, 14th March 2009 - kick-off time 15.30
2nd Bundesliga (2nd level)
Result: 11:1 after 50 min. - Halftime 6:0
Goals: 1:0 4th Hunger, 2:0 9th J. Schlanstedt, 3:0 14th Willi, 4:0 19th Willi, 5:0 21st Willi, 6:0 25th J. Schlanstedt, 6:1 26th van Buiten, 7:1 31st Hunger, 8:1 32nd J. Schlanstedt, 9:1 34th J. Schlanstedt, 10:1 39th Hunger, 11:1 50th U. Schlanstedt
Bookings: two yellow cards de Lichtstad
Sent-offs: none
Stadium: Eberhardt-Kannegießer-Stadion (cap. 400; 100 seated)
Attendance: 110 (no away fans)
Match quality: 6.5/10 (First half good, second one less good)
Half past ten in the morning, we took the train from Merseburg to Querfurt, saving a lot of money because of using the so-called “Hopper-Ticket.” Actually, it does not have to do with groundhopping, but sometimes it is helpful on groundhopping tours. The best about that ticket is, that you can ride up to 50km in one direction within your Bundesland - return included - for 6€ per Person. Merseburg - Querfurt - Merseburg costs one more than 9€, usually.We bought something to eat in Querfurt and went on by bike. Via Farnstädt, Rothenschirmbach, Osterhausen and Bornstedt, we arrived at Holdenstedt. Actually we planned watching a football match there, but the teams were not on the ground at the fixed kick-off time (12:30), so we thought, the match must have been called off although the pitch was in a good condition. Looking up the result in the internet, we found the strange assertion at fussball.de that the match was allegedly played at Holdenstedt and Holdenstedt/ Beyernaumburg II won - allegedly - 12:2. Very strange, but once again an example of the bad organisation in that area.
After I took some photos of the church in Holdenstedt - also called Hodenstedt - we rode five kilometres to Beyernaumburg, a village with a nice church and a beautiful castle. The older, medieval part of the castle is in bad conditions, but the neo-gothic part is impressive.
Few kilometres on to Allstedt there is another castle (pictured above that line), but we already visited it when we watched SV Allstedt for the first time last year. That’s why we immediately entered the roller hockey and tennis stadium.We expected much time for hanging around, but luckily there was a match before the Bundesliga match scheduled. SV Allstedt II played a friendly against a non-league team, Haldenslebener SC. SV Allstedt II is a mixed team, fife men and three women - mostly boys and girls, not grown-ups - are in the team. Nonetheless, the mixed team went in front with two goals within the first half (20 minutes each half). The first goal at all was scored by a young lady - the only one of the three female players who played at the same level of the male players. In the second half Allstedt even scored another time, but step by step Haldensleben scored a goal after another. After 32 minutes they equalised, after 35 they scored the 3:4 and in the last second - not just last minute but last second - they scored their fifth goal. The match was quite good in the first half but contained of many mistakes, and in the second half the mistakes were more disturbing. But all in all, that match was better than expected and you have to pay respect to the players. The best skilled one was the guy with the number 9 playing for Haldensleben.
The second match was faster, saw better technical skills and more goals, but you can expect such a performance: that is 2nd Bundesliga. Allstedt even played in the first level last year.You may wonder about that, but the visiting team was not German but Dutch. There are some Dutch teams taking part in German competitions. One of them is RC de Lichtstad from Eindhoven. Unfortunately they couldn’t send all the players that day. The coaches did not come neither.
With a furious start, Allstedt cleared the match. After the first half (25 minutes) was over, they lead by six goals to none.
In the second half the match was weaker, partially even boring. Nonetheless we saw six further goals: five for Allstedt, one for Eindhoven.
The surroundings are not worth much words. The stadium is great of course, catering was O.K. but the supporters were just watching and not supporting.
During the break of the second match and after that match, we saw a show event of a kind of sport we did not watch before. It has almost died out, but Haldensleben has a team that competes in that sport: artistic roller skating. All in all the sports value was anything but great, but it was quite interesting to watch. The closest related kind of sports to artistic roller skating is figure skating.
The way back was partially really hard, because the street from Allstedt to Allstedt airport - a shut-down Soviet military airbase - is exhausting due to the steep hill upwards for 4.5 km. But then it is not a long and hard way to Querfurt anymore. From Querfurt we took the train back to Merseburg.Statistics:
Ground No. 284 (not a new ground; this season: 56)
Sporting event No. 766-767 (the artistic roller skating did not count in that statistic due to lack of referees - this season: 136)
Kilometres that day: 130 (70 train, 60 bike)
Km this season: 18,380; i.e. 9,270 car/ 3,190 bike/ 2,960 plain/ 2,960 train
Number of weeks since the last week without any sporting event (Aug 1st-6th 2006): 137
For more photos see:
Castle Beyernaumburg etc. - http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x68/fchmksfkcb/090314a%20Beyernaumburg%20-%20Holdenstedt%20-%20Allstedt/
Roller hockey and skating - http://s181.photobucket.com/albums/x68/fchmksfkcb/090314b%20Rollhockey%20und%20Rollkunstlauf%20in%20Allstedt/


We had so much time due to those unjustifiable match postponements that we could stop for a bite to eat in a quite good Chinese restaurant that offers nice dishes to reasonable prices, in Weißenfels. It was one of the very few facilities in Weißenfels which had open doors on 1 p.m. on that Saturday. That dirty town really is a village!
Then we went to the sports hall in Großkorbetha, a small village between Weißenfels and Leuna, for watching handball.
The first one of the two handball matches - TSV Großkorbetha II vs Friesen Frankleben III - was a match of the lowest division. But even compared to other matches of the Kreisklasse, it was really weak. So many mistakes and so lame, that even the referee had no problems in following the match. Luckily, the players threw some nice goals from time to time.
Further description is not needed here. That team at the bottom of the table that lost 13 matches in a row, lost a 14th match and that team ranked 3rd asserted its rank. Frankleben won 25:19.
The second match - TSV Großkorbetha vs Merseburger SV Buna Schkopau II - was just one level higher on paper, but three or four levels higher in view. It was fast paced and hard played right from the beginning, and although the players did not score so often, it was a great match. After 18 minutes, the result was just 4:3. But after Großkorbetha scored two more goals until minute 20, there were far more goals per minute scored, than before. 10:10 at half-time.
In the second half, the match was even better. Really, it was a thrilling match and of good quality. Großkorbetha used some shortcomings of Schkopau for scoring three goals. 15:12. After Schkopau almost equalised (15:14), the only player familiar to me - Ronny Block, an old school mate of mine, playing for Schkopau - was sent off due to harsh foul play. He was almost every minute in the match and did good work at the throwing circle, but one mistake - pulling an opponent down who was broken through the circle, directly in front of the goalkeeper - and he had the red card in front of his face. The only ridiculous decision made by the referees: the first referee, that one who had been quite close to the scene, sent Ronny off with a two-minute time penalty (that was absolutely justified!) but the second one ran to the scene from 25m behind and showed him the red card just after several fans of the hosting team shouted: “Sent him off! Show him the red card!” A handball-typical arbitrary decision.
But even the next lead of three goals was not enough for Großkorbetha. Schkopau equalised after they caught three goals in a row that led to a 20:17 lead for TSV 1893. The 20:20 equaliser was scored about 30 seconds before the end, and in a heated final phase, Schkopau maintained the draw.
Nonetheless, by the way, respect to the referees, that did not make more than one dubious decision. Especially the last minutes were difficult to manage. I just had liked if they had sent-off that provocateur from Großkorbetha with the number 6. If they show Ronny the red card for the shit he did, that guy had deserved his third two-minute time-penalty (that is also a sent-off for the rest of the match) after 48 minutes. All in all, he even deserved five time-penalties due to playing foul, bitching and provoking other players.
Other people who should be mentioned, are the fans. Well, two of them: the guy with the drum and that one with the horn. They were always supporting.
It has been another nice handball match and a deserved draw.
Statistics
Ground No. 283 (new ground; this season: 53)
Sporting event No. 762/ 763 (this season: 130)
Kilometres that day: 50 (bike)
Km this season: 18,120; i.e. 9,270 car/ 3,030 bike/ 2,960 plane/ 2,860 train
Number of weeks since the last week without any sporting event (Aug 1st-6th 2006): 136
For more photos see:
Wir brauchten aufgrund einer Umleitung etwas länger als erwartet und kamen deshalb 15 Minuten nach dem geplanten Turnierbeginn in die Halle. Erst einmal die bekannten Gesichter begrüßen - sprich: jeden zweiten Spieler, Betreuer und Zuschauer - und dann aufatmen, da wir noch gar nichts verpasst hatten. Lostau war etwas später eingetrudelt, da es Probleme mit dem Kleinbus des Teams gab.
Mitteldeutscher BC 89:74 Bremen Roosters
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Wir brachen gegen 10.30 auf, da wir eigentlich ein Spiel zwischen Dehlitz II und Reichardtswerben II sehen wollten, doch schon nach 1,5km trat der erste Defekt auf. Wir tauschten dann mein Tourenrad zuhause gegen das Rad meiner Mutter aus, das erwartungsgemäß das einzige Rad sein sollte, das an diesem Tag keinen Ärger bereitete. Aber was will man auch bei einem Tourenrad von Diamant erwarten? Made in Chemnitz! Da kann ja eigentlich nur Scheiße bei rauskommen...
Zu Fährrädern kann ich aufgrund diverser Ärgernisse der letzten Monate nur sagen: 1. Räder von Diamant verschleißen schneller als andere; auch als Ossi sollte man nicht diese Marke nehmen - am besten gefällt mir das Rad von Giant, 2. wenn man mehrere Reifenpannen innerhalb von zwei Wochen hat, sollte man die Reifendecke wechseln, 3. Apropos Reifendecke: immer Schwalbe unplattbar - keine von einer Billigmarke wie auf meinem Diamantrad und 4. wirklich einmal pro Jahr die Karre zur Wartung bringen; die Durchsicht kostet etwa 30€ und ist meist sinnvoll, da abgefahrene Bremsklötze und Reifendecken oder angerissene Schaltungsdrähte schnell bemerkt und ausgetauscht werden können.
Wir fuhren schon kurz vor 11 Uhr von Merseburg nach Halle/ Saale und klapperten dann alle drei Sporthallen an der Karlsruher Straße ab. Dass sie alle verschlossen waren, ließ uns auf eine Spielverlegung der Handballspiele von Askania Nietleben und Einheit Halle V schließen. Verärgert fuhren wir zum Bahnhof und packten Sachen, gegen die die Ordner des HFC etwas haben könnten, in eines der 2€-Schließfächer. Der HFC spielte nämlich um 13.30 gegen VfB Lübeck. Auf dem Weg zum Bahnhof hatten wir uns noch vergewissert, ob die Rot-Weißen wirklich das Regionalligaspiel bestreiten würden.
Das Jugendhandballspiel:
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Vorm ersten Spiel:
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Amateurfußballneuigkeiten:
TSV Leuna 27:28 SV Allstedt
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