The start with number 91 and 22 has been made

Right on time at 10 am, Coach Thorsten Fink drummed up the players of FK Austria Wien for the first time this year. In the training center in Steinbrunn there were two new faces to greet and some were back after a long injury break. Still the “Violets” are not complete yet.

Fink first gave a brief speech, afterwards the team went into the gym for stabilization and strength training for 45 minutes and then onto the pitch for an hour. The first training session lasted a total of two hours, followed by the next this afternoon.

"I am glad that we are up and running again," said Fink, he added "I have agood feeling. We have new players, slowly all our injured players are coming back as a result we have more alternatives."

Grünwald and Klein are on their way back

Alex Grünwald and Florian Klein should be able to be integrated into the normal training starting in the middle of next week. Heiko Westermann is still doing individual training with the man of his confidence in Germany, but should be available again soon.

On the other hand, there are players that will not be back so soon. Robert Almer, who continues to make progress but is also still having setbacks and Christoph Martschinko, who cannot be reintegrated until the end of the season. Dominik Prokop, Petar Gluhakovic and Mirko Kos are currently serving time in the Austrian Armed Forces, Ismael Tajouri has been given permission to negotiate with another club and was missing today.

"We want to return to the Europa League"

Fink on his expectations for the spring: "We want to return to the Europa League, this is very important for the club and its development. That's why we need a good second leg and our victory against Sturm Graz during the last round before Christmas showed that you should always keep an eye on us."

The Coach hopes to see a new impulse with new arrival Stefan Stangl and the left-back has a lot in mind as well. "I want to bring my old strengths to help the team. What I've seen so far is a good team, together we will use the preparation time until the start of the second half of the season," says the Styrian, who has chosen the back number 91. "David de Paula already has my favorite number 23, so I choose the year of my birth."

Patrizio Stronati choose number 22, he had number 18 before he was loaned to Mlada Boleslav but Westermann now wears his old number. Fink: "I am glad that both are with us now. We can certainly use them".

Numbers 91 and 22 - Welcome to the “Violets”!

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