After a brilliant After a 4-2 victory at SSVg Velbert, FCB got on the plane just a few hours later and rushed towards Mallorca with the team, to celebrate the championship in high spirits. But since this week Coach Winking has been asking the fourth division newcomer Bocholt to train again, after all the regional league season starts exactly in a month.

Good goalkeeper performance

At the end of the first week of preparation, the first test against an ambitious opponent took place: Fortuna Köln was involved in the front ranks for a long time last season and will again be one of the top teams in the regional league in the coming season. But the team Markus von Ahlen did not have the best day against the away drivers, at least in the front third. Bocholt goalkeeper Gian-Luca Reck, recently signedand Jonas Scholz performs well and kept their box clean. The decision in favor of the Winking-Elf brought routine Markus Beckert ten minutes after being substituted on (70th). “The game was good to find out where there are gaps. We had to face a lot of pressing situations. Mistakes are punished very differently than in the Oberliga. We defended well and kept getting counterattacks,” Winking explained in the club media.

Of course, 1. FC Bocholt will take this sense of achievement with them before their (test) game of the year, because the Bundesliga club will be making a guest appearance next week VfL Bochum for the guest performance at the Hünting (2 July, 2 p.m.).

Note on the line-up: As usual in preparation, the clubs have not published their full matchday squad, which is why neither the starting XI nor the substitutes are complete.

SC Fortuna Cologne – 1. FC Bocholt 0: 1
SC Fortuna Cologne: André Weis (60th Hannes Kramp), Dominik Lanius (46th Jan-Luca Rumpf), Jonas Scholz (46th Finn Bauens), Jean Marie Nadjombe, Angelo Langer, Maik Kegel (16th Kai Försterling), Stipe Batarilo-Cerdic ( 46. ​​​​Tariq-Emad Suleiman), Serkan Göcer, Dustin Willms, Sascha Marquet (46. Timo Hölscher), Leon Demaj – Trainer: Alexander Ende
1 FC Bocholt: Gian-Luca Reck (46. Jona Luis Scholz), Tim Winking, Arman Corovic (83. Ahmet Salih Özyigit), Gino Windmüller, Takumi Yanagisawa, Dario Schumacher, Kohei Nakano, Robert Tochukwu Nnaji, Kento Wakamiya, Andre Bugla – Trainer: Jan Wink
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Crack: 0: 1 Marc Beckert (70th)