Michael Zetterer<\/a> visibly enjoyed throwing and kicking the unfamiliar ball, which they were using in honour of training guest Anton Segner, who\u2019s been playing rugby in New Zealand for the last eight years.<\/p>\nMeanwhile, 11 outfield players practised busily on the pitches at Deutsche Bank Park. Not among them were Oscar H\u00f8jlund and Can Uzun, who are in rehab after injuries, nor Jean-Matt\u00e9o Bahoya and Far\u00e8s Chaibi (treatment\/individual training) or Mario G\u00f6tze (individual training).<\/p>\n
Three youngsters involved<\/p>\n
Midfielder Metehan Yildirim as well as defenders Jeremiaha Maluze and Yannis Ahouannou from the youth teams took part in the session. After working up a sweat with Segner in the gym, the goalkeepers started on the pitch with some contact warm-ups from rugby. The 24-year-old Frankfurt native is currently in the off-season in New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fortunate that I could come to training today,\u201d said Segner with a smile afterwards. \u201cIt was impressive to see how the guys work. The warm-up exercises are good for the muscles of the neck and abdomen, which the keepers need. You can tell they have very good coordination and body control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zetterer was pleased to have something different in training and summed up the new impetus provided by Segner: \u201cIt was tiring but certainly fun. The exercises were a bit like wrestling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead: on the pitch and days off<\/p>\n
Zetterer and the other players who aren\u2019t on international duty have another session on Thursday before four days off. Training resumes after the international break next Tuesday ahead of the Bundesliga match at 1. FC K\u00f6ln on Saturday 22 November (18:30 CET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby player Anton Segner practised with the goalkeepers while 11 outfield players worked on the pitch. As the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-279872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}