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A few months ago Christoph Baumgartner was still fighting for a spot in the starting lineup at Hoffenheim and was far from being nominated for the Austrian soccer team. Meanwhile, the offensive player is just as well placed at TSG as he is on the ÖFB national team, where he again proved his worth in Klagenfurt on Wednesday with the 2-1 winning goal against Greece.
Baumgartner is undoubtedly the current shooting star of the team, but he’s not impressed. “I’m a guy who knows where he’s from,” the Waldviertel native in Klagenfurt said Thursday. “I always heard from my parents that I was down to earth and normal, and that won’t change, no matter where I go. It’s going well at the moment, but I know there will be games again that don’t go so well, ”said the 21-year-old.
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Baumgartner had a strong performance in his first two national team appearances in September. Against Greece he came during halftime and immediately took the ÖFB team’s game to a higher level, not just because of his 2-1 goal, which marked his second goal in the third international match.
Therefore, Baumgartner does not consider himself a regular player. “That is decided by the team boss, many players are not currently there. I’ve been working a bit lately and just making sure to get it right in every game. “But a certain pride was also mixed in with modesty.” Goals are always something special, and in an international match that’s another Alzerl, “Baumgartner said.
The Hoffenheim professional will play his next international game on Sunday in the Nations League in Belfast against Northern Ireland alongside David Alaba. “He was always a little role model for me, because he celebrated his first successes while I was in the academy. He is a role model for every Austrian youth player, and you can see what is possible, even as an Austrian, ”said Baumgartner.
Lower Austria have already played Alaba, and quite successfully. In Hoffenheim’s 2-1 away win against Bayern a year ago, Baumgartner was still on the bench, at home 4-1 against the record champion two weeks ago he was in action until the 59th minute. “Of course, it was great to win after Bayern won what seemed like 1,000 matches in a row, “reported the young ÖFB star.
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