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The friendly game in St. Petersburg was definitely worth the trip. The game in the world's northernmost megacity was not only a win from an athletic standpoint, but also fruitful in the mutual exchange of ideas. Zenit even opened its doors to the modern training centre for Austria Wien.

CEO Markus Kraetschmer and Sports Director Ralf Muhr have already visited the top Russian club last fall in the course of the internationalization strategy, in return high-ranking Zenit representatives have also visited Austria Wien and the Generali-Arena. Two academy teams are currently staying with us for a week at the academy and the next Gazprom-LAB is in preparation together with Zenit, Schalke 04, Roter Stern Belgrad and Austria Wien and should take place in April or May in Vienna.

CEO Markus Kraetschmer, "The trip was again an extremely valuable experience in the course of our partnership. Of course, we have also used them for the exchange of views and valuable aspects have been taken."

While Kraetschmer, Muhr, team manager Markus Schaffer and head of communications Christoph Pflug already had intensive talks with leading Zenit employees on Friday, the state-of-the-art training centre of the A-team was visited on Saturday before the test match.

Click here for the game report of the 3-0 victory against Zenit St. Petersburg

The whole complex, by the way, located somewhere else than the new stadium, is a visible sign of the opportunities the club has created. From an indoor swimming pool, to a mini-clinic, a restaurant, to new and spacious single rooms for each player and caregiver, and a video-analytic room that looks like a small movie theatre, there is everything you could need.

Of course, several heated lawn and artificial turf pitches, a separate media centre, a five-star gym and similar to Austria Wien the second team next door. The rookies, on the other hand, are much further away than at FAK.

You can clearly see that Austria Wien has also achieved a visible milestone over the past few years with their infrastructure offensive and the redesign of the Generali-Arena and that Zenit has few other options. Nevertheless, everything is dimensionally larger at the Russian club and thus also a small place of longing for young players.

"Overall, very impressive," said Sports Director Ralf Muhr after the trip to the Baltic metropolis, he also noted the 3-0 victory in the modern Gazprom Arena (video highlights) with extremely satisfied gesture. "We presented ourselves very well, the game has fulfilled its purpose and of course also provided valuable information."

Certainly, already for Sunday as well. For the start of the championship group in Salzburg.

Ausgabe KW 13/2019

Erstellt am 28.03.2019

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