That Björn Andrae is currently a Play-off quarter-final series, he would have thought four months ago, never. Last December, the 37-Year-old was on the verge of a holiday in Thailand to break to him the person in charge of the Dürener Volleyball-Bundesliga club contact. Due to a number of breach failures, they asked Andrae if he could help out. “And because I still have fun with Volleyball, I said to,” says Andrae. He had played six months of no Volleyball anymore, but that didn’t bother the Dürener and him. It quickly became apparent that it was absolutely the right decision.
The external attacker is an important Stabilizer of the Dürener team. The more in demand he is on this Wednesday against the BR Volleys (19 Uhr/live on sporttotal.tv). The Dürener have to win the second game of the series “best of 3”, otherwise you are eliminated. After the defeat, last Friday in Berlin, Andrae white, that he and his team-mates to “stand with your back to the wall,” he says. On the other hand, he also stresses: “We have nothing more to lose.”
The first duel was close than the score suggests
The chances of a decision to force the end of the third game in Berlin, here are not low. In the main round, defeated Düren, Germany the reigning German champion and also the 0:3 in the first Play-off duel was not so clear as the result suggests. Especially in the first sentence of the Dürener were equal. This was also due to Andrae. In the adoption of the former national player was outstanding and defused numerous noise at the end of the attack blows the Berlin. “He is a hugely experienced player who is good for the team structure and his fellow players with his kind of help,” says düren coach Stefan Falter.
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Andrae rated his performance a little more restrained: “I show that I can keep up. I’m fit as a fiddle, and it all works very well. No one says to me,’ stop it’!“ Düren is for the Berlin the now 13. Club station. Andrae successfully played in Italy, Russia, Poland and Greece. Most recently, he was in the last two years in Königs Wusterhausen. Whether it’s for him after this season, has him currently: “I’m not thinking about.” For him, the Play-off series against Berlin and counts alone: “We just need to make our game, and hope that the Volleys to play as grandiose as the last.” And he is confident that this will work: “We play again on Sunday in Berlin.”
