2. Bundesliga – Sandhausen lends Bayern’s ex-hope Gaudino to Austria
Cologne (SID) – The odyssey of Bayern Munich’s former midfield hope Gianluca Gaudino in professional football continues. Second division club SV Sandhausen loaned the son of ex-national player Maurizio Gaudino to the Austrian first division club SCR Altach on Monday until the end of the season, where the 25-year-old is hoping for more opportunities for match practice than with the Kraichgauers.
In Munich’s championship years 2015 and 2016, Gaudino was constantly or at least partially part of Bayern’s professional squad. The former junior national player played a total of eight Bundesliga appearances for the record champions. Gaudino has only played six matches in Sandhausen since he was signed by Young Boys Bern last summer, also due to findings and most recently a corona infection.
On the last day of the transfer period, however, SVS brought attacking players Erich Berko, Maurice Deville and Alou Kuol as well as midfielder Tom Trybull to Hardtwald as reinforcements for the fight to stay up. Berko comes from second division leaders Darmstadt 98 and thus knows the lower house just like Trybull through his previous involvement with SVS relegation rivals Hannover 96, while Deville was last under contract with third division top team 1. FC Saarbrücken. The trained centre-forward Kuol is moving from the regional league reserve of Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart to the team of coach Alois Schwartz on loan until the end of the season. The Sudan-born Australian is Sandhausen’s seventh signing since the beginning of the year.
Anas Ouahim no longer plays a role in Schwartz’s plans. The 24-year-old’s contract was terminated by mutual consent. In addition to Ouahim, the SVS will also be without Charlison Benschop in the future: According to SVS, the striker was released from his contract for a change to the Dutch honorary divisioner Fortuna Sittard for personal and family reasons.