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A US-Boy for D / A (Drochtersen/Assel)
Kyle Kaveny plays on Friday evening in Kehdingen (a part of Drochtersen) for the first time in Germany

The trophy in his hands is made of chocolate and can not melt easily (the lady interviewing me didn't have a soccer ball on hand, so she bought the next best thing from a nearby pastry shop). Constant value arises Kyle Kaveny before his career. The 25-year-old American wants to be a professional soccer player in Germany. As Friday falls in Kehdingen the start. Then Kaveny accrues for the first time for a German club - for the SV Oberliga Drochtersen/Assel. Kick-off is 8 PM in Drochtersen against Rot-Weiss Cuxhaven.

Kyle Kaveny has spent the winter in Germany. He was in Dusseldorf, Munich, Erfurt and Hamburg. Hamburg is a great city, so liberal and exciting, just like San Francisco, he says in English. The Californian has already learned a little German, though in America, he studied Russian (this is not true) and Spanish (true). His dream would be a contract with a Bundes league. But first he is happy to be able to play at Drochtersen/Assel. "As a defender," Kaveny says suddenly in perfect German. "Right, left, and move out" were the words he first learned. "Before I could count one, two, three," says former student and laughs.

At the University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB short, he studied mechanical engineering and sports sciences. Since November is Kaveny in Germany. End of May, he will fly back to his homeland - and he hopes that he can come back and he gets the new season with a team somewhere in Germany a professional contract. He wants to kick, necessarily - because even if Kaveny appears at first sight, somewhat of a smart surfer boy from California, where he has never surfed. "For me there was always football," he says. For SV Drochtersen/Assel Kaveny came in a roundabout way, through a friend of D/A-player Raphael Staffeldt.

A shelter has found Kaveny first with his now injured countryman and D/A-player Marcus Storey in Heimfeld. One of the unlucky fortune of the other: That the SV Drochtersen/Assel the defensive players for the last eight games of the season will still run, is on the losing streak of the staff in 3rd place. Nine players are missing coach Jagemann, seven of them from the starting lineup. New additions Fabian Völkner (knee injury) for which their season has ended, Markus Zimmermann (bruise) and Daniel Gröne (foot injury). Against the virtually relegated almost last in the table Cuxhaven, Kaveny will play well in central defense in a back four that has never before done this together (3 of the 4 starting defenders are new).