Willi Orbán may have to miss next Saturday’s Bundesliga top match between RB Leipzig and 1. FC Union Berlin. The thirty-year-old has received a call as a stem cell donor.
Orbán has been registered as a donor since 2017 and has now been matched. The Hungarian defender has been receiving injections since Saturday. The donation will take place in Dresden on Wednesday. It is still unclear whether Leipzig can have its captain again on Saturday, when number two Union Berlin visits the Bundesliga.
For Orbán, that is now of secondary importance. “I’m getting the chance to save a human life without much effort, I have no doubts. I hope my donation can help the patient to fully heal. Of course it is possible that I will miss the match against Union, but that is now of secondary importance, “he says in conversation with Bild .
Orban assures that he will do everything he can to return to Marco Rose’s team as soon as possible. The Hungarian international hopes that more people will follow his example and register as a stem cell donor. He mentioned, “It’s very simple and I feel very well guided. My example shows that it definitely makes sense to register.”
Matthias Kaltenbach to join Hoffenheim
Matthias Kaltenbach seems to be able to return to work shortly after his resignation from Ajax. The coach, who worked in Amsterdam as an assistant to Alfred Schreuder, also departed. He can return to Hoffenheim as an assistant. The Bundesliga club is looking for a new technical staff after the resignation of trainer André Breitenreiter.
Hoffenheim said goodbye to Breitenreiter on Monday. The defeat (5-2) against the VfL Bochum of former Vitesse coach Thomas Letsch was the last straw for the club management. It was already the seventh loss in nine league games. As a result, Hoffenheim dropped to fourteenth place and it seems to have to prepare for a fight for survival.
According to the German Kicker, a new technical staff is already being worked on behind the scenes. Kaltenbach is one of the pawns that, according to the German magazine, must certainly be rehabilitated. At Schreuder’s request, he was snatched away from Hoffenheim by Ajax in the summer, but now that he has left, the club thinks it can let the assistant return.
However, the head coach does not want to commit to Kaltenbach yet. According to Kicker , other candidates are eligible. One of them is old acquaintance Pellegrino Matarazzo. The 45-year-old trainer was fired from VfB Stuttgart in October. Before his time there, he had been active at Hoffenheim for two and a half years and worked as an assistant to head coach Julian Nagelsmann.
