Lukas Schmitz was the first Werder player to have his alarm clock go off Thursday morning as his transfer from Zell am Ziller to Munich Airport was leaving at 7:45 a.m. He didn't have much time to deal with the bad...
Lukas Schmitz was the first Werder player to have his alarm clock go off Thursday morning as his transfer from Zell am Ziller to Munich Airport was leaving at 7:45 a.m. He didn't have much time to deal with the bad...
Lukas Schmitz was the first Werder player to have his alarm clock go off Thursday morning as his transfer from Zell am Ziller to Munich Airport was leaving at 7:45 a.m. He didn't have much time to deal with the bad news he had received the previous evening from team doctor Götz Dimanski in a Zillertal clinic. Schmitz had suffered a broken tarsal in his foot and would miss six weeks of action, putting him out of the race initially for a starting spot in the line-up. The 24-year-old will be operated on in the next 24 hours in the Bremen clinic Mitte and then begin his rehab program.
"The initial shock has passed by now. Yesterday I thought the world was going to end and everything else. The foot feels better today and I am optimistic looking towards the future," said Schmitz after landing in Bremen in the afternoon.
The setback was clearly visible Wednesday night on the face of the Hatting native. "He was pretty down," said head coach Robin Dutt. "But that's also very normal." Dutt tried to pick up the spirits of his defender. "I suggested to him to really give in to the disappointment for three days and then come back after that with new energy."
But Schmitz didn't want to waste those three days. After landing in the afternoon at Bremen Airport, he already had a fight in his voice. "I hope for six weeks of rehab training and then two weeks of working with the team and then I want to be a candidate for the team," said Schmitz.
