“Under all cannons”
Trainer admits: Bielefeld goalkeeper deceived injury
Trainer admits: Bielefeld goalkeeper deceived injury
April 14, 2025, 7:57 p.m.
In the third division game between Bielefeld and Viktoria Cologne, the goalkeeper of the Arminia suddenly asks for medical treatment. His trainer Kniat then gathers the field players and gives them new instructions. This brings the opposing trainer to white glow.
The coach of Arminia Bielefeld, Mitch Kniat, admitted that his goalkeeper occasionally pretends an injury so that he can make tactical changes. As the ARD- “Sportschau” reported that this was last happened on Sunday in the 2-0 win in the third football league against Viktoria Cologne. Showing show how goalkeeper Jonas Kersken first grasps his back in the 70th minute, then put it and then asks for medical help. Then Viktoria coach Olaf Janßen scolded on the sidelines and left his coaching zone – he saw the red card.
At the subsequent press conference, Kniat admitted that Kersken was not really injured. “These are the rules. You can title that as unsportsmanlike,” said the coach of the DFB Cup finalist. “I have learned a word from the referees in the whole years in which I am a coach: gray area. This is always used when the referee is wrong. Then it says: ‘It is a gray zone’. When handball, all of these are gray areas. Then we can also use the gray areas for us.”
The “gray area” mentioned in the regulations states that the game must be interrupted if a goalkeeper needs treatment. Unlike a field player, the keeper cannot be examined next to the square, so the game cannot continue. Even in youth football, it always happens that coaches use this interruption for a break as you know them from other sports.
“Under all cannons”
Meanwhile, Viktoria coach Janßen scolded the action after the game, which was “under all the cannons”. “The goalkeeper lies down, has no injury. The whole team goes to the bank and gets a tactical instruction and then they are at the side with ten men,” he said in magenta. This happens every 14 days for the Bielefeld, said Janßen.
According to ARD, according to ARD, according to ARD, the goalkeeper is always planned for the game against Saarbrücken. “Kersken has nothing, but we want to make a few changes tactically. There are a few tricks that the boys have to learn. If you as a footballer were as bad as I have to come up with something. pass along.”
The Bielefelders are currently in second place in the table with five outstanding games, which qualifies for promotion to the second Bundesliga. The lead over the relegation rank, which currently occupies 1. FC Saarbrücken, is three points. In addition, the Arminia surprisingly qualified for the final on May 24th in Berlin in a sensational cup season. There it goes against VfB Stuttgart.
