Fight for return

Westliga: Comeback is only on the horizon

Tandari is working on his comeback.(Bild: zVg)

Tamas Tandari has been struggling with the consequences of a torn Achilles tendon for three and a half months. However, the record player for FC Pinzgau Saalfelden is not the only player in the league suffering from serious injuries. Salzburg's rivals will also have to do without one or two players for some time.

It goes faster than expected," says Tamas Tandari about his way back. FC Pinzgau's record player suffered a torn Achilles tendon at the beginning of May and is working on his comeback at the Physiopound in Lofer. However, this is unlikely in the fall. "Maybe in the last game," hopes Tandari, who will soon be able to do his first exercises with the ball.

Team-mate Ramzan Dudaew has been missing since 2023 due to a pubic bone injury. Austrias Christoph Bann has been sidelined since October - he tore his meniscus and cruciate ligament. His return is planned for September. Luca Schmitzberger has to wait after tearing his cruciate ligament shortly after joining the Violets in the winter. The same applies to St. Johann's Kadir Özkan and Bischofshofen's Chukwudebelu Obasi Chukwurah, who have both been out of action since the spring with the same injury.

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"We've never had all our regular players available this year," says BSK coach Thomas Schnöll. Konstantinos Chatzipirpiridis has resumed light training, but it will be some time before he makes his comeback after tearing his Achilles tendon in the first quarter of 2024.