Ex-team player Stefan Lainer returns to Salzburg-Diepresse.com

The 32-year-old right-back signed a contract until the end of June 2027, the Austrian football runner announced on Sunday. The 39-time ÖFB team player will be available to the bulls on the club World Cup on Monday at the start of preparation. The tournament in the USA begins next weekend, Salzburg will enter the action on June 18.

Lainer switched to Gladbach in 2019 for rolported twelve million euros, but no longer regular players at the German Bundesliga club last season. With his experience, he is supposed to help the Salzburgers looking for identification for identification figures to the success. « I don’t have to say much about Stefan Lainer anymore, we all know what we can expect from him: tireless efforts and great will, » said Salzburg’s sports director Rouven Schröder.

There is also great experience. Lainer played 163 competitive games for Mönchengladbach in Germany in six years. After a cancer overcome in 2023, he was last used in the ÖFB team in March 2024 against Slovakia (2-0). He narrowly missed his second European Championship participation, team boss Ralf Rangnick stroked him in the last squad reduction from the contingent.

Gladbach came up

Last season, Lainer completed 21 league portraits for Gladbach, but most of them as a substitute. He had already flirted to Salzburg in winter. Now there was an agreement with the Germans, in which he would have been under contract for another year. « He came up with the desire for change due to the sunken mission times and we are pleased that we have succeeded in finding a solution satisfactory for all sides, » said Gladbach’s sports manager Roland Virkus.

« This step back home is a great chance for me to be there with something big, » said Lainer in a Salzburg show. His goal is to do everything to ensure that the club plays again at the highest level. « Best in the Champions League. » In this, the son of ex -international Leo Lainer 2020/21 completed eight games with Gladbach – but none with Salzburg yet. Lainer: « I want to be an important part if we find it back to the road to success. Overall, I see a lot of potential here in Salzburg. » According to the club, Lainer will wear his old number 22 with the clubs. « For us, he is one of our leaders who will not only go on the field, but also in the cabin, » said Schröder.

Lainer shaped his illness of lymph node cancer, which had forced him to take a half -year break in autumn 2023. His comeback in January 2024 in the league game against Augsburg described the Salzburg as the « most emotional game » of his career. You didn’t forget it in Mönchengladbach either. « The six years at Borussia were sporty and privately an incredibly intensive time with lots of heights and a few depths, » said Lainer to say goodbye. « I would like to thank the club for the great support and will especially miss my teammates and the grand fans. It was an honor for me. » (APA)