TuS Bövinghausen will definitely play against SpVgg Erkenschwick after the abandonment last week. Beyond that, however, much is unclear.
These are exciting days for the Oberliga club TuS Bövinghausen. It all started with a poor start to the season. After four games without a point and only one goal scored, the newly hired coach Baris Özbek left the club.
Since then, Dimitrios Kalpakidis and Danny Voß have been in charge of the team. But calm has not returned since then. The new coaching team has also not been able to get a point in any of the nine games with the team so far.
On September 17, the next piece of bad news followed for TuS Bövinghausen: the club is insolvent.
The result: Kalpakidis’ team will have nine points deducted due to the ongoing insolvency proceedings. After the insolvency, the first chairman Ajan Dzaferoski made it clear to Forecasting: “TuS Bövinghausen’s ability to play games is not in jeopardy at any point. All planned games will take place as scheduled.”
On Sunday, amateur sports in Dortmund were particularly shocked by the news that TuS Bövinghausen abandoned the game after trailing 8-0 at half-time. The reason: Bövinghausen no longer had seven fit players available for the second half.
At the beginning of the new week and before the upcoming game against Spielvereinigung Erkenschwick (October 11, 7:30 p.m.), much about the future of TuS Bövinghausen’s operations seemed unclear. But at least one question now seems to have been resolved. As Kalpakidis reported to Forecasting, TuS Bövinghausen will continue to try to maintain match operations: “For us, one thing is clear: we will compete against Erkenschwick on Friday.”
The reason for this is that the personnel situation has improved somewhat. The 45-year-old explains: “We have more players available again. Some are still uncertain about playing, but we will have at least twelve players available in Erkenschwick on Friday. I hope that there will be more and that we will play a better game overall on Friday.”
However, Kalpakidis does not want to blame the sporting failure on the unrest in the club. He emphasizes: “The processes and training are still the same for the players. We had a discussion with the players on Tuesday, but nobody said much about this topic. I don’t know what the situation is doing to the players’ psyche, but I assume it is limited.”
The 45-year-old could not say how much longer TuS Bövinghausen would be able to maintain its operations and how things would continue from a sporting point of view: “These are topics for the board, about which I have no information. We look from game to game and of course want to complete the season. Whether we continue only until the winter or until the summer, I can’t answer that at this point in time. One thing is clear: we will fight in this difficult situation and try to do better in the coming weeks.”