SCR Altach

Coach Joachim Standfest starts with 19 players

Gustavo Santos, Paul Koller, Paul Piffer and Tamar Crnkic will be missing from the Rheindörfler's first training session. Coach Joachim Standfest starts Altach's preparation with relaxed training sessions.

This afternoon, Joachim Standfest invites the Altach Bundesliga squad to the first training session on the adjacent pitch of the Cashpoint Arena. "The training session will be a kind of welcome round, a relaxed session. That also applies to Tuesday. Because sports medicine tests are scheduled for Wednesday. For a realistic result, the players shouldn't be too tired," says Joachim Standfest ahead of the opener. The coach himself only traveled to Ländle yesterday afternoon, before that he watched his daughter Lenia's fast legs at a sprint competition in Styria.

Standfest will be without four players for the first training sessions in Altach. Gustavo Santos is in Brazil for a private appointment. Paul Koller, whose transfer to Sturm has not yet been finalized, has a few days off after his U21 team assignment.

 And the two youngsters Paul Piffer and Tamar Crnkic - who has been promoted to the squad from the amateurs - have their school-leaving exams on Wednesday and will then start training. "There are more important things on the agenda for the two young players than soccer over the next few days," said Standfest on the absence of the high school graduates.