AMERICAN FOOTBALL

The Footballer of the Bulls Salzburg living between fear and hope. Two new Legionnaires, and a training camp with the Raiders Swarco master-awaken hope in the second league. Worry about the lack of homestead.

Long time ago. Two Decades, the great successes in Salzburg Football now back. Since the Bulls in the championship season of 1989, only teams from other federal states determine what is happening - the Graz Giants, Vienna Vikings and Raiders from Innsbruck. During this time the Bulls had the second league satisfied. That should change now.

"We want to win Silverbowl and in the coming season first," says board member Peter Bulls Maracek.

How comes his sudden optimism? The Bulls have in the last moment, two new players involved: the Americans Will Galusha of Defense and Jordy Bernhard pass receiver than reinforcing in the first match on 29 March away from the Gladiators ASVÖ the team of Salzburg.

Both were previously in the Raiders squad confessed. "They are absolute top people in training and have their class flash," explains Maracek.

Speaking of training: The Bulls, it is thanks to their good contacts with the current European Cup winners managed to hold a joint training camp. Last weekend they had with the Raiders game rehearsed lines and new tactics tried. "These are some of us succeeded touchdowns. It surprised me that we can keep up so well," said Maracek.

Despite all these innovations plagued the old Bulls worry. Your pitch in Gnigl still has no spectator grandstands. Bulls fans will also be the first home game on 4 April against Klagenfurter Black Lions must.

Sufficient parking is also looking in vain. And for the organizers, it is because of the many possibilities of access to the sports ground remains difficult, the tickets to check.

"We are long overdue alternatives. We would like to Itzling play," said board member Maracek Bulls. The talks with the umbrella ASKÖ, which had been brought about, so far remained fruitless. A small ray of hope there but for the last two home games. The National Sports Bureau Salzburg had the Bulls offered to them in the Red Bull Arena remove. A variant, which probably would have fallen all the parties, because the artificial turf can hardly even the Footballer "umackern" ...