The scene undeniably looked ugly and painful and was repeated and zoomed in several times during the live broadcast on Magenta Sport. It shows how Yassine Bouchama (26) kicks Freiburg’s Gabriel Pellegrino (19) – lying on the ground – shortly before the end of the game (86th), first with her left foot on the ankle and then with her right on the thigh. Unnecessary, overly motivated – but still unwanted. At least that’s what the Münster “evildoer” claims…
Preuße Bouchama asserts: “The foul was not intentional!”
Of course, he later looked at the situation on the screen several times on the long journey back after the 2-2 draw in Breisgau. And was shocked by it himself: “No question, that didn’t seem particularly fair or nice. But I can only assure you that I really didn’t mean to hit Pellegrino intentionally, much less hurt him.”
Yassine Bouchama has made 14 appearances for Prussia in the current third division season, scoring one goal
Photo: Jan Fromme/firo Sportphoto
The fact is: The Freiburg goalscorer who made it 1-0 fell in a duel with Benjamin Böckle (21) and had the ball trapped and buried under him. Bouchama came over and wanted to steal the play equipment – very impetuously – from between Pellegrino’s legs. “I actually caught him unluckily,” admits Prussia’s attacking midfielder honestly, “in the heat of the moment, but without any intention.”
He only saw a yellow card from referee Leonidas Exuzidis (28/Castrop-Rauxel), who was standing right next to him. Lucky you! Bouchama: “I can’t complain about that. It could actually have been worse.” However, since it was already the fifth warning of the current season, he will still have to sit out the next league home game against Viktoria Köln (Sunday/November 26th/7:30 p.m.).
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Incidentally, he reconciled with Pellegrino immediately after the final whistle. “Of course we talked,” said Bouchama, “I immediately apologized to Gabriel, he accepted it and accepted it. Nothing stuck there.”
In any case, the German-Moroccan is not suspected of playing particularly hard and mean. Still without being sent off in his professional career. Only in the 1-1 draw against Lübeck on matchday 7 (September 23rd) did he come close because he pushed referee Timon Schulz (27/Lehrte) in the chest with both hands. Bouchama confirms: “That wasn’t particularly clever of me. But understandable. I had just broken my nose in a duel and was in pain, there was blood everywhere. And then I was told not to act like that. That made me angry for a short time.” Yellow was justified – nothing more.
Flew to Munich on Monday morning for the German U20 national team’s training course: Prussia’s loan keeper Johannes Schenk
Photo: Jan Fromme/firo Sportphoto
While he won’t be able to play against Viktoria, Bouchama will be able to play in the Association Cup quarter-finals against Erkenschwick next Saturday (Saturday/11/18/1 p.m.). Keeper Johannes Schenk (20) is missing. The Bayern loanee from the “Black-White-Greens” was nominated on Monday morning by national coach Hannes Wolf (42) for the training course for the U20 national team in Munich. There will be training sessions on the Bayern campus until November 15th before a three-day trip to Romania. Where, among other things, a test against the local U20 (17.11./6 p.m.) is scheduled.
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The DFB talents will then fly back to Regensburg to finally play an international match against England’s youngsters (November 20th/6 p.m.). From November 22nd, Schenk will be back at the Adlerklub, for whom he has appeared in six competitive games so far. Four times in the 3rd league, once in the Association Cup and in the 4-0 defeat against Bayern in the first main round of the DFB Cup.
Incidentally, this is the first call-up to the national squad for Schenk, who is under contract with the German record champions until 2025. Springboard Münster – without his strong performances for the Prussians this would certainly not have happened…
Offensive speedster Thorben Deters, currently with a muscle injury, was a guest on the podcast “Preußen Privat”
Photo: Sebastian El-Saqqa / Sportphoto
● Thirben Deters (28) was recently missing from the 2-2 away draw in Freiburg with muscle problems. The offensive speedster can be heard in the 10th episode of the podcast “Preußen Privat”, where he provides, among other things, interesting insights into his mental life. Available at www.preussenprivat.de and wherever podcasts are available.
2023-11-13 17:20:41
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