Hertha BSC scandal in the training camp
Austrian police interrogate Hertha’s new goalkeeper
Status: 16.07.2023 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Hertha’s goalkeeper returnee Marius Gersbeck
Those: dpa/Soeren Stache
The bad news at Hertha BSC doesn’t stop. Goalkeeper Marius Gersbeck is said to have been involved in a physical altercation at the training camp. The morning after the incident, the Austrian police took the professional to the station.
After relegation, Hertha BSC is working on an immediate return to the Bundesliga. The Berliners have been preparing for the coming season in Zell am See since last Wednesday. A total of three friendlies are planned for the ten-day training camp. Pal Dardai’s team won the first game against Belgian club Molenbeek 2-1.
This is one of the few pieces of good news for Hertha. Because the training camp is overshadowed by an incident. According to information from BILD, goalkeeper Marius Gersbeck was taken into custody by the Austrian police on Sunday morning at the team hotel. The 28-year-old is said to have been involved in a physical altercation at a restaurant on Saturday night. Alcohol is said to have been involved that evening.
“This verbal argument then escalated into a physical altercation, during which the 28-year-old injured the 22-year-old to an unspecified degree on the body,” a police spokesman told BILD. “Witnesses then called the emergency services. The 22-year-old was taken to the Tauern Clinic in Zell am See after his first aid.” According to information from the newspaper, the Austrian was said to have been seriously injured in the head and not yet able to be heard.
The morning after, Gersbeck was then picked up by the police at the team hotel and taken to the station. According to BILD information, the interrogation of the goalkeeper continued on Sunday morning. In the meantime he has been allowed to return to the team hotel, but of course he is not in the squad for the friendly against Antwerp this Sunday afternoon. Hertha confirmed the incident. “We can confirm that the police are investigating one of our players, but we ask for your understanding that no further details can be given out of consideration for the ongoing investigation,” said a spokeswoman for the club.
“The gut said yes from the start”
Gersbeck only moved from Karlsruhe back to his youth club in Berlin this summer. Even as a teenager, the goalkeeper stood in the fan curve with the ultras and cheered on the Berliners. Gersbeck also knew the former capo and current club president Kay Bernstein from that time, and the contact never broke off. Even the contacts to the organized fan scene have not broken off despite the professional career. “I separate that. They’re not ultras, they’re friends,” said Gersbeck.
“The gut said yes from the start. The head also shows what you had. That was a guaranteed regular place. I can’t fault anything at all about Karlsruhe. But there is one club that stands above that for me and one city that stands above that, and that’s Berlin. That’s why it happened,” said Gersbeck.
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