UFC Gaubitsch – Left as a player in April, now back as a coach

Will it be love at second sight? In the summer of 2023, Gaubitsch signed the former Neudorf bomber Marek Dite, and after nine missions they separated in the spring – officially for “private reasons”. Five months later, the 37-year-old is back at UFC and succeeds trainer Wolfgang Berger. “Until winter for now. “If it fits, then it goes beyond that,” noted section leader Manuel Spacek.

How does this happen? “I’ve known Marek for a long time and always knew that he wanted to become a coach in Austria too.” “I contacted him first and he immediately said it was a good fit,” said Spacek. Due to the special circumstances in the 2nd class Pulkautal – only the top two have a fixed place in the promotion play-off with the strongest teams in the Schmidatal and Thayatal relays – Gaubitsch has to start scoring points quickly, they are currently with four points a penultimate position.

With a show of strength you can still get into the upper play-off

Even though the last collaboration was short, Spacek sees an advantage in Dite’s past at the club: “Marek knows the team.” If you bring in a stranger, it takes a month or two until he knows the player. He was immediately welcomed back, we have nothing to lose anyway.”

But if you still want to have a say, you need three points against bottom team Grabern on Sunday. “Marek said right from the first training session that we wanted to win all the remaining games,” said the official, who was “in good spirits.” The debut against Wildendürnbach ended 2-2.