August 2011 | SC Melle and its main sponsor Melos are all set for the 2011/2012 football season

So near and yet so far – twice

In 2010, SC Melle football club ended up just three points away from top position in the table – at nine points, the gap in 2011 was only slightly bigger. Maybe the players shot just wide of the goal a couple of times more than they should have. But, ultimately, whether your team earns a solid third place or comes in tenth with 17 fewer points, 17 fewer goals and 14 more goals against it, the result is the same: you don’t advance to the higher league.
Even the world’s “favourite pastime” can harbour its share of disappointments, especially when a solid start to the season fails to culminate in a happy ending. But “hope springs eternal”, motivating the players to give their all again in the new season.

The way forward
SC Melle 03 has learnt a lot and can draw strength from its recent performances. In the coming season the team is ready to battle its opponents to earn the right to play in Lower Saxony’s top league, the “Oberliga Niedersachsen”. In the lead-up to the first match of the season against SV Großefehn, Farhat Dahech, the team’s trainer, can already look back on what he describes as “a very good preparation phase”, preparation that bore fruit in the team’s 7-1 victory over SF Schledehausen in the first round of the district cup competition on 31 July 2011.

New impetus
Yakup Akbayram, Niklas Pörschke, Artöm Pfannenstiel, Felix Zimmermann, David Liegmann, Lennart Süllow, Veit Usslepp, Maajid Sadaat-Khah and Mario Stiegemeyer have all joined the squad and, in Dahech’s opinion, these big changes mean that integrating the new team members is his top priority for the start of the season.

The trainer first wants to integrate these players successfully before saying anything concrete about his goals for the rest of the competition. But the players’ own ambitious statements clearly reveal what is at the back of their minds – their burning desire to move up to the next league. In terms of their playing skills, they certainly have the potential to achieve just that. Closer cooperation with the club’s second team, which new trainer Andreas Cabus is taking charge of, is designed to enhance the top team’s flexibility and to train up talented new players who can help move the team forward.

As SC Melle’s main sponsor, Melos wishes the footballers all the very best for the challenges ahead as well as that “little bit of bloomin’ luck” that can make the difference between victory and defeat on the football pitch.

Melle, August 2011

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