GAK Young Talent

Faced Deportation Right from Training Camp

Coach Dominik Hackinger was just as surprised by the situation as his young players.(Bild: GAK 1902 Akademie)

A 14-year-old soccer player is at training camp with the GAK academy team, for which he has been playing since last year. At breakfast, the coaches had to tell him that the police were coming to pick him up right away. For this fully integrated young man, his world came crashing down.

Imagine this: You’re at a training camp in Obertraun with your soccer club, sitting down to breakfast, when suddenly your coach tells you, “The police called us. You’re going to be picked up right away, taken to Vienna with your family, and deported tomorrow.”