Third division team SV Wehen Wiesbaden is dreaming of promotion to the 2nd division. On Saturday, the Hessians host MSV Duisburg.
SV Wehen Wiesbaden is currently the best-formed team in the 3rd division. The promotion contender has collected an outstanding 15 points from its last five games – and that’s as good as it gets! SVWW would like to demonstrate this strong form on the upcoming matchday, when they host MSV Duisburg in the Ruhrpott (April 22, 2 p.m.).
Wehen has consolidated second place in the table and already has a six-point lead over fourth-place 1. FC Saarbrücken. SC Freiburg II – currently third – would not be eligible for possible promotion. Head coach Markus Kauczinski’s team is thus, six matchdays before the end of the season, clearly on course for promotion – also thanks to Brooklyn Ezeh.
The 21-year-old is a perennial favorite for the league runners-up. Out of 32 games, he was in the starting eleven 29 times and missed only three games due to a yellow ban, flu and Achilles tendon injury. Ezeh played 2512 minutes in the 3rd division – more than any other player in coach Kauczinski’s squad.
The left-back has scored two goals this season. In the 3:1 away win against Rot-Weiss Essen at Hafenstraße, Ezeh put his team 2-1 ahead after a solo run, and in the following home game against FSV Zwickau, he scored a dream goal with his weaker right foot in the 89th minute to make the final score 4:3 – Goal of the Month.
With five assists, Ezeh is also one of his team’s top assist providers. Thanks to his dynamism, precise crosses and robust tackling, the Hamburg native is an integral part of the starting eleven and an absolute key player for the third-division club.
Ahead of the return leg at RWE in March 2023, the 21-year-old expressed his satisfaction with his development in the state capital of Hesse in an interview with RevierSport: “The move to Wehen Wiesbaden has shown me how much I can and will still get out of myself.”
Before the start of the season, he moved to Wiesbaden from third-division relegated Viktoria Berlin. Prior to that, he spent two and a half years at Schalke 04, where he played 42 games for the club’s U23s in the Regionalliga West, scoring two goals and providing three assists.
Although he was part of the Bundesliga squad three times during the relegation season of the Schalke professionals, he was never used and did not get beyond his role in the U23. Next season, Brooklyn Ezeh could meet his former club again – then as an opponent…
