The Heidenheim Chronicle
Match3 Apr 2027
18 matches without a win for Heidenheim
The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Heidenheim are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The knee: Tobias Weigel out for 23 days
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Heidenheim lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Pressure builds in the Heidenheim boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
the manager has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Heidenheim can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The step up is real for Frank Feller
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market5 Apr 2027
Moritz Leitner puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Heidenheim, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Fiete Arp in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heidenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Marvin Pieringer falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Jan Schöppner
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Match SC Freiburg take the points off Heidenheim
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Patrick Mainka without the man who signed him