the record of the week at Mainz 05 captain Stefan Bell voice. Last Sunday he was a guest on the sports programme “flood light” in the Südwestrundfunk. At the end of the call, the 27-year-old, and since the B-juniors-days in the Association-funded home-grown talent has been asked for its remaining athletic Dreams. “My goals are to how the of our Association: to The loved one as boring as possible in the League every year. For me, this is like a championship.“ Bell longs for two nerve-sapping relegation fight with anxious glance into the abyss of second-class citizens to the rest. The Bell-championship of the early secured class a finding could come to the Mainz on Saturday (15:30/F. A. Z.-Liveticker for the football Bundesliga and Sky) are very close, if you the table the last 1. FC Nürnberg would beat in the first home game of the new year.

Daniel Meuren

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The can succeed in the view of coach Sandro Schwarz only if the Mainzer “press the accelerator pedal fully”. In the past few days, the coach had to exhort after his Team 3:2 victory in Stuttgart would have gambled on the last Saturday again, almost an edge to his players that it will never go with less than a hundred percent.

13 points

The potential wage should be sufficient Motivation for use against Nuremberg: The distance to the relegation place could grow in a home win to a whopping 13 meters, since the VfB Stuttgart is guest game at Bayern Munich is probably a losing battle. But is then backed up those boredom after the Bell so craves? Or will new dreams, where the Association with the beginning of the current season had created the slogan “the dream is still alive” as a trademark of the Association.

stadium announcer and remodeling plans

More voltage than in the Sports indicated for the time being, away from the lawn: On Saturday, the new stadium announcer presented for the first time to the public. On Friday, the club had announced that the is incorporated in the Almost nocturnal radio host Andreas Bockius by the end of the season to the side of Klaus Hafner in his new job. On Saturday in the football stadium rather good mood oriented new man has to pass on the microphone, a sample to seriousness: on the field of play, the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister-President Malu Dreyer will speak together with representatives of both clubs to the alarm date in German football, on the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. The action of “Never again!” has accompanied Mainz 05 thanks to the commitment of Vitesse Mayence, the partner of the DFB campaign “Welcome to football”, in the past few days, so prominent and active like no other club in Germany.