2023-12-04 04:30:00
There is a gold rush atmosphere at SC Lassee. Konstantin Breuer, 28-year-old homegrown player, is returning to his hometown club from Neusiedl am See following eight and a half years and with 127 regional league games under his belt. “Honestly the best case for us,” cheers friend and SCL captain Thomas Naimer regarding the coup. They would have been looking for reinforcements in Breuer’s positions anyway. “A top transfer,” says coach Martin Grabenbauer, who is looking forward to “a highly qualified footballer and top person” who “will have zero problems getting used to it.”
The offensive man spent most of the past decade in Austria’s third highest league, but following stints at Mannsdorf, Ebreichsdorf, Stripfing and most recently Neusiedl, he now feels the time has come to chase his beloved ball once more in the regional league. The main reason is his professional work at the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB), where Breuer took on a time-intensive project in the area of talent development at the beginning of the year. Specifically, it’s regarding new training ideas for the ten to 14 year old age group. Breuer works with Bundesliga clubs and LAZs and has been traveling a lot recently.
Breuer: “I never left Lassee”
But the logistical challenge of living in Marchfeld, working in Vienna and playing football in Burgenland as well as the serious ankle injury suffered in September also played their part in convincing Breuer to return to his home club. Although he doesn’t even talk regarding returning: “I feel like I’ve never left Lasse. During the first regional league season, I was here every morning and trained to get better. I helped at the folk festival. When I went to the home games, I sat in the dressing room followingwards. I was always in contact with Thomas Naimer and Kevin Steinmetz anyway. Well, I never left Lassee, I just didn’t play there anymore.”
Big goal: to give something back to young people
But now that will be different, Breuer will be slipping back into the Lassee jersey in the spring – and brings big goals with him: “I don’t just want to return as a player, but also as someone who opens his mouth at the club and gets involved.” And Not only as a mouthpiece in the offensive team, but also in the youth ranks. Giving something back there in the long term is a real matter of the heart for those in their late twenties.
“I am the player I am today largely because I always had excellent youth coaches in Lassee,” he remembers of a Herwig Brudik senior, an Igor Horvath or a Darko Antic, and of the club management at the time around Hannes Riedmüller, that made all of this possible: “It seemed like that to me back then, but today, with all my expertise and knowledge, I can assess it even better. And that’s something that makes me say that I would like to give something back now.”
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