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No royal road for Kutschke: non-relegation is paramount

No royal road for Kutschke: non-relegation is paramount
Unlikely to start: Dynamo's Stefan Kutschke ends his career. (archive picture). / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa
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The captain is leaving the club, but it is unlikely that Stefan Kutschke will make another appearance in the Dynamo starting line-up. Dresden are not yet saved.

Despite all his merits, Stefan Kutschke is unlikely to be handed a starting berth in what will probably be the last game of his career against Holstein Kiel on Sunday (3.30pm/Sky). Instead, the captain of second-division soccer club Dynamo Dresden is likely to come off the bench as a fireman or back-up, as he has done recently. Although Dynamo can no longer be relegated, they need at least one point to avoid relegation.

"You do think about it. But the crucial thing is what Stefan said last week: Non-relegation is the overriding goal above everything else," said Dynamo coach Thomas Stamm. There is no silver bullet. "But there are many scenarios in which Stefan's quality is required. Not because it's his last game," said Stamm.

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Keeping the team together is the big goal

Ten players will say goodbye to Dynamo before the game, all seven loan players in addition to Kutschke, plus Claudio Kammerknecht and Jan-Hendrik Marx. The club is very interested in retaining some of the players who have been loaned out so far, said sporting director Sören Gonther. "When you have a well-functioning team, you want to keep the majority of them. That has to be the goal so that we carry the momentum we have now into the new season and don't have the biggest, most radical upheaval we could possibly have," said Gonther. But the former Dynamo professional also emphasized that the most important prerequisite here was not being relegated.

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