3. Liga live on MagentaSport, August 1. Kick-off: RWE vs. TSV 1860 free, XXL podcast "4:3" / RWE, Hansa, and Sechzig "clear favorites," Arslan: "just fighting and scratching is no longer enough."
Munich (ots) - With just one week left until the start of the season, one player is already really excited: "The 3rd division is so good these days that fighting and scraping is no longer enough; you have to kick," says Essen's Ahmet Arslan in the MagentaSport podcast "4zu3" with an XXL preview, especially for the opening clash between RWE and 1860 Munich (Friday, August 1, from 6:30 p.m. live and free on MagentaSport). Long-time midfielder Arslan explains to the Lions what they can expect this time: "When you arrive at Hafenstrasse, it feels like the Champions League." Essen's advantage over other top teams: "It should be an advantage that the team has largely stayed together. It's up to us to ensure that this is an advantage and doesn't become a disadvantage at some point." In promotion mode, Essen's opening opponent is TSV 1860 Munich. Florian Niederlechner and Kevin Volland are the protagonists with Bundesliga experience. Niederlechner had already clearly stated his goal: "I came here to compete for promotion. That's quite clear." MagentaSport expert Fabian Klos agrees: "Sechzig and Rostock are the clear favorites for promotion. TSV 1860 again has significant turnover in the squad. Unlike in previous seasons, they now have more quality and, in Patrick Glöckner, a coach who knows how to handle it." Markus Schwabl is new to the MagentaSport expert team. With 326 third-division appearances, Schwabl ranks fourth on the all-time list and knows the league like no other. Hansa is the "clear favorite": "Teams like Rostock and RWE almost have to attack this year." Hachinger Schwabl on the Lions: "They first have to make sure they get the team together, including in terms of team structure." Also new this 3. Liga season on MagentaSport is the "Who's Next" section. Here, expert Daniel Flottmann, currently working in the youth development department at Werder Bremen, analyzes the talents of the 3. Liga and predicts who has the potential to become future Bundesliga or even national players. The 3. Liga provided 21 U-national players last season. Top stars such as Joshua Kimmich (formerly at RB Leipzig), Antonio Rüdiger (at VfB II), Thomas Müller (at FCB II), Tim Kleindienst (at Cottbus), and Nick Woltemade (at Elversberg) initially played as professionals in the 3. Liga. Below are excerpts from the first episode of "4zu3 - the 3. Liga Podcast" after the summer break. This time with RWE player Ahmet Arslan and the new MagentaSport expert Markus Schwabl. If used, please cite MagentaSport as the source. MagentaSport will once again broadcast all 380 live matches in the new 3. Liga season, 312 of which are exclusively available on pay TV. Kicking things off on August 1st is the big hit: RW Essen vs. TSV 1860 Munich, live and free on MagentaSport. Also featuring top-notch football: FC Bayern Munich vs. Tottenham Hotspur on August 7th from 6 p.m. in the Telekom Cup. On August 9th, 1. FC Köln will play against Atalanta Bergamo from 3 p.m. Both matches will also be available live and free on MagentaSport. "4zu3 - the 3. Liga Podcast": The XXL season preview with Arslan, Volland, Niederlechner, Klos, and Schwabl. Back again: "4zu3 - the 3. Liga Podcast" from MagentaSport is entering its 3rd season! Every week, it's all about emotional derbies, controversial decisions, new signings, and controversial coaching dismissals. In the latest episode, MagentaSport personalities Christian Straßburger, Thomas Wagner, Yannick Bakic, and Tobi Schäfer give their predictions one week before the start of the season. The link to the new podcast episode: https://4zu3.podigee.io/latest-episode-player Euphoria in Essen "very great" - Hafenstrasse "like the Champions League" for Arslan Ahmet Arslan perceives a really positive general mood at RWE: "There are so many people who are enthusiastic about you as an individual and for the team. We're 'only' third-division players, but when you arrive at Hafenstrasse, it feels like the Champions League. We flew to Edinburgh for pre-season, and almost 3,000 Essen fans flew with us. I don't know if that's always the case in the Champions League. You have to look at it positively. If things don't go well, like they did for us in the first half of last season, you have to have a strong personality and be stable to be able to handle it." During these phases, it is important to stand together as a team and club and support each other." Hardly any personnel changes at RWE! "It's up to us to make sure it's an advantage and doesn't become a disadvantage at some point." Arslan is entering his second season at RW Essen with perhaps the strongest team he's played with in the 3rd division: "You have to take your hat off to what those in charge have achieved and how they've tried to secure players. For me and also for those who were brought in the summer. The framework is good; the foundation has been laid. In the 3rd division, however, it doesn't matter whether you have a certain name or not; you have to get it on the pitch. For whatever reason, that's particularly difficult in this league." The core of the team from the successful second half of the season has been retained, which the leading player sees as a strength: "It was important that everyone stayed with the exception of Julian Eitschberger (who returned to Hertha BSC after a loan spell). You come into the dressing room after the summer break, and everything is as if you were there the day before. You don't have to find your feet again. But there are one or two." A newcomer we have to integrate. As a group and as leaders, it's important to integrate these people and make them feel as if they've been with us for a while. That's the biggest task we have. And then it should be an advantage that the team has largely stayed together. It's up to us to ensure that this is an advantage and doesn't become a disadvantage at some point. "No fancy coach" Uwe Koschinat "made the impossible possible" and wants to "hit the ground running now." Arslan knows why coach Uwe Koschinat is a perfect fit for Essen: "He made the impossible possible. That was a very strong and extraordinary second half of the season. The best the club and many players have ever played. He simply fits in here. People see that he's not a fancy coach, but a hard worker. He's very meticulous and pays attention to every detail. He's doing exceptionally well on a sporting but also on a human level. He had the guts to come to Rot-Weiss Essen in the situation at the time and to say, 'I've mastered this now.' I take my hat off to him for having achieved that. He's rightly celebrated for that. But what also sets him apart is that he's not at all conceited. He emphasizes that football requires work and fighting. If someone doesn't do that, they'll hear it. But at no point did I get the feeling that he didn't want to let them play football. He's good at both and also wants players who can kick. The 3. Liga is now so good that fighting and scraping is no longer enough; you also have to kick. "There has to be a bang" - Sechzig kick-off in Essen. Sechzig returnees Florian Niederlechner and Kevin Volland had already explained their goal of promotion for the season in a MagentaSport interview about two weeks ago: "We want to go all out, that's the clear goal. We don't need to argue about it. We have a good team, so we can't say that our goal is to stay in the league. I came here to compete for promotion," said Niederlechner. Strike partner Kevin Volland is also looking forward to the third division start (on Friday, August 1, from 6:30 p.m., live and free on MagentaSport): "In Essen, Friday evening: It has to be a big event, we have to be there. With such a top game, you're immediately on air. It'll be a real thrill." New expert Schwabl: "Two or three top-class teams" and Hansa as a "clear newcomer" Markus Schwabl, player and sporting director at regional league club Haching, is covering the upcoming season as the new MagentaSport expert: "It will be an incredibly exciting season with two or three top-class teams, including the Lions. They simply have to move up this year because they first reduced their budget and then seemingly doubled it. Teams like Rostock and RWE almost have to attack this year. If you remove the three teams, it will be a very even round." On Haching's city rivals Sechzig: "They first have to make sure they get the team together, including in terms of team structure. They have a lot of high-caliber newcomers. Such teams really have to be high, in terms of appeal, presence, and fan base. But these are precisely the teams that are having the most trouble. They would be well advised to find their footing as quickly as possible in order to beat the smaller teams. They've always been stuck with them." Schwabl's prediction of the promoted and relegated teams: "For me, Hansa Rostock is a clear candidate for promotion due to the quality of their squad. They have a great coach and made smart transfers with Maxi Krauß and Andreas Voglsammer. They're ready this year. Schweinfurt will struggle. They might be able to carry the euphoria with them at first, but then it gets difficult.""If I carry humility and poise before me like a monstrance" - MagentaSport trio "irritated" by Aachen's departed Backhaus, Alemannia now with "counter-proposal" on the coaching bench. There's also a lot of discussion in the first "4:3" issue! MagentaSport reporter Thomas Wagner is annoyed with Heiner Backhaus, who had already assembled a new team at Alemannia Aachen, but then moved to Eintracht Braunschweig as coach at short notice: "I was irritated that he always talked about humility and poise and then suddenly disappeared. If I demand that myself and emphasize it again and again, carrying it like a monstrance before me, but then move to Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2nd division, I find that a problem."MagentaSport commentator Christian Straßburger adds on the Backhaus issue: "How he came to Aachen wasn't quiet either. It was the same story. Now Aachen is disappointed and hurt, even though they signed him just as well. It's like when you steal someone's hand and then you're disappointed when they steal it back. What comes around, goes around. Heiner Backhaus has to be careful not to let it stick with him. Braunschweig is also a big, traditional club. But is this the step he has to take, because otherwise, the door will never open again? "Who's next" - MagentaSport expert Daniel Flottmann gives third-division top talents a stage in the new format. The 3. Liga has already produced many Bundesliga and national players like Nick Woltemade and Tim Kleindienst. MagentaSport expert Daniel Flottmann, who recently won the DFB Cup as assistant coach of Werder Bremen's U19 team, takes a closer look at the league's young talents: "The boys are mostly under 23, they don't need a promoter or press officer. I see myself more as a class representative who wants to point out that there's a lot of talent there. I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm working on it day and night. I have a good feeling and have observed a lot. I would like to share my predictions with everyone. 3rd League season 2025/26 completely live on MagentaSport. Matchday 1. Friday, August 1, 2025. From 6:30 p.m.: RW ESSEN - TSV 1860 Munich (LIVE AND FREE). Saturday, August 2, 2025. From 1:30 p.m. in the conference, available as individual matches from 1:45 p.m.: SV Waldhof Mannheim - SC Verl, FC Ingolstadt 04 - Jahn Regensburg, VfL Osnabrück - Alemannia Aachen, FC Energie Cottbus - 1. FC Saarbrücken, TSG Hoffenheim II - TSV Havelse. From 4:15 p.m.: MSV Duisburg - VfB Stuttgart II. Sunday, August 3, 2025. From 1:15 p.m.: FC Erzgebirge Aue - FC Hansa Rostock. From 4:15 p.m.: FC Viktoria Köln - 1. FC Schweinfurt. From 7:15 p.m.: SV Wehen Wiesbaden - SSV Ulm 1846 2nd Matchday Friday, August 8, 2025 From 6:30 p.m.: FC Schweinfurt - Energie Cottbus Saturday, August 9, 2025 From 1:30 p.m. in the conference, available as individual matches from 1:45 p.m.: TSV 1860 Munich - VfL Osnabrück, 1. FC Saarbrücken - Viktoria Köln, SSV Ulm - Erzgebirge Aue, TSV Havelse - RW Essen, Alemannia Aachen - TSG Hoffenheim II From 4:15 p.m.: SC Verl - SV Wehen Wiesbaden Sunday, August 10, 2025 From 1:15 p.m.: Jahn Regensburg - MSV Duisburg From 4:15 p.m.: Hansa Rostock - Waldhof Mannheim From 7:15 p.m.: VfB Stuttgart - FC Ingolstadt More live football: Thursday, August 7 2025, Telekom Cup: From 6:00 PM: FC Bayern Munich - Tottenham Hotspur Saturday, August 9, 2025 From 3:00 PM: 1. FC Köln - Atalanta Bergamo Press contact: Jörg Krause Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0170 22 680 24 Original content from: MagentaSport, transmitted by news aktuell Original report: https://www.presseportal.de/pm/147981/6084150
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