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Lots of power and new shirts: this is how the Belziger SG group plans to start the new season.
Bad Belzig. The gamers and coaches of the Belzig SG unit are scratching their hooves once more, however the state-ranked volleyball gamers nonetheless have to be affected person – at the very least till indoor coaching resumes in preparation for the new season. “The scenario is a bit tough at the second,” says SBU volleyball supervisor and 1st group participant Kirk Berger, “Pushkinhalle is nonetheless getting used as an emergency shelter.” Albert Baur Halle is closed and can solely open after the holidays. Only then we are able to start coaching once more.”
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Most gamers are on the sand throughout the summer season months and subsequently have a gentle recreation load. From August 25, coaching ought to actually start once more in the gymnasium and with the complete group. But Berger and his teammates urgently want time earlier than the first matchday (September 17). Because the composition of the group has modified considerably.
“Many gamers go away the area after graduating from highschool to examine or work elsewhere. As a outcome, we’ve a little bit of a shake-up virtually each season,” explains the 55-year-old, who desires to be there himself subsequent season and fondly describes himself as the group’s “Dino”. In the new season, the group will include 18-20 gamers. The squad consists of six to seven gamers from earlier years. The relaxation are younger gamers from the age of 15 who’re taking their first steps in the males’s space.
“Otherwise you would not have taken all the bother”
“We are attempting to appeal to younger individuals and provides them a group the place they’ll present themselves,” says Berger, who doesn’t need to go into subsequent season with out ambition. With a newly assembled group, a superb midfield place is an affordable aim. “We need to be extra superior offensively and nonetheless give every participant some taking part in time. It is usually a tough balancing act at instances,” says Berger. However, he is at the moment coping with different challenges.
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The Belzig volleyball participant is at the moment attempting to get a brand new jersey for the group. Because the place there is an enormous group, there are additionally many gamers who want shirts. It’s all the time necessary to get new sponsors – Berger is additionally at the forefront together with his spouse Jana, who coaches the ladies’s group. When unsure, the pharmacist can assist himself together with his Märkische Apotheke Brück.
“Playing volleyball is very enjoyable. Otherwise, you would not be taking over all the bother,” says Kirk Berger, who additionally sees his dedication to the Belziger SG unit as a life’s work to present a small anchor for youth in the area. “Volleyball is a sport you could play at an early age and it’ll see you thru outdated age,” says Berger, including, “Especially for younger athletes, it creates group and employment. If you could have volleyball observe, you are not caught in a single place.”
Berger’s 13-year-old daughter can even play in the nationwide group of his spouse Jana Berger from the coming season. Here, too, the group has many younger skills who can show themselves early in the ladies’s space. In the upcoming season, the males’s and girls’s groups will typically strive to fill the corridor twice for residence video games – but in addition to fulfill one other duty: “It’s a matter of power conservation.” This is additionally crucial these days.”