Pure drama on the last day of the match: This Is Football

How does it feel to hold the championship trophy in your own hands in your mind, to feel its metallic taste on your tongue after the victory kiss, to simply lift it up into the imaginary sky in a rush of joy - and then suddenly onto your cell phone to look and see that the first place you thought was safe has become second within just a few moments? It must be terrible. The 2nd amateur league team Klausen can tell you a thing or two about it.

The referee called the association - but the game had to be played Before the start of the game, Haslach (43) and Klausen (41) were at the top of the B circle. So the Eisacktalers needed a win and had to hope for a slip-up from the people of Bolzano in order to grab first place. Nobody would have expected that the season finale would end up taking on the drama of a Shakespeare play. Klausen was already 4-1 ahead after an hour at home against Montan, while Haslach was trailing 0-1 in Jenesien from the seventh minute onwards. Haslach then tried to somehow reverse the result in the Jenesien “swimming pool” (the rain showers were so intense that parts of the field were under water) using all available means and launched attack after attack on the opponent's goal. Since nothing changed until the 89th minute, the championship champagne was probably already taken out of the fridge at the sports grounds in Klausen, 44 kilometers away. But then the final phase began in Jenesien, which showed how close joy and sorrow are in football. First Alberto Bontadi equalized after a commotion, then in the fourth minute of stoppage time he was exactly right during a mass commotion in the Jenesien penalty area and pushed the pill over the line. Haslach's 200-strong crowd of supporters was in ecstasy, her team was 2nd Amateur League champions for the first time in history and the supposed big winner Klausen was suddenly the crying runner-up. This is Football.

Like the Cowboys once did There was also a lot of drama on the other football pitches: In the 2nd Amateur League Group C, Teis Villnöß and Gais faced each other in a game with a revolver duel format: whoever wins stays up, whoever loses has to go down. In the end, Patrick Lanziner from Teis became the big village hero because he gave his team the 2-1 winning goal in the second minute of injury time, thereby saving Teis Villnöß from relegation and sending Gais into the third amateur league. Even in the 1st amateur league there were no shortage of nerve-wracking games: Neumarkt only secured the championship title in the A district in the derby against Auer with a late brace from Melchiori, while Reischach's relegation in the B relay only happened five minutes before the end thanks to a stroke of genius was sealed by Vahrn player Manuel Sullmann. Whether victory or defeat, whether champion or relegated: Football itself won once again on Sunday. Emotions, joy, tears - in short: everything a ball-loving heart desires. Only the game with the round leather writes such stories. The only question that remains is when the next season will finally start again.

Thomas Debelyak, Sports News

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Pure drama on the last day of the match: This Is Football

“Only football writes these stories” – a sentence as worn out as a pair of football boots after the last day of the season. And yet playing with round leather proves again and again why it is so special and fascinating. This is what happened on Sunday in some places in South Tyrol.

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