Lars Ritzka

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Marked for Lars Ritzka

6 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Budu Zivzivadze

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Heidenheim lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market7 Sep 2026

SC Freiburg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Heidenheim did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Heidenheim

Diant Ramaj was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Jonas Föhrenbach 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Still no ink between Heidenheim and Lars Ritzka

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Heidenheim, another week without a signature from Lars Ritzka.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Andrea Consigli dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match5 Sep 2026

Heidenheim and Bayer Leverkusen cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bayer Leverkusen came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market7 Sep 2026

No place for Paul Tschernuth in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Paul Tschernuth has his answer from Heidenheim; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Christian Conteh

Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

VfB Stuttgart watching Budu Zivzivadze

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Heidenheim have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Diant Ramaj 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A wage question at Heidenheim

Lars Ritzka has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

In brief

2 Edition

The Heidenheim Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Lars Ritzka would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lars Ritzka is living that version at Heidenheim, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market10 Aug 2026

Heidenheim turn down Hamburger SV for Frank Feller

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Patrick Mainka signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Mainka and Heidenheim agree another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Diant Ramaj 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Heidenheim training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leart Paçarada is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market10 Aug 2026

Heidenheim and Lars Ritzka are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief