Friday, February 25, 2011

St. Pauli set to use media relations man

What do you do when you don't have enough healthy players for the squad? Well if you are St. Pauli, you turn to other areas of the club to find a player. That's what coach Holger Stanislawski did when he asked Hauke Brückner, an intern from the media relations department.

"I got a call from Stanislawski and I expected he was going to tell me he was not happy with an autograph session I had set for him, but then he asked me if I was fit enough to train," Brückner told the Welt newspaper. "I said yes. I had never imagined anything like this."

Stanislawski has included Brückner in his squad to face Hannover this weekend.

"When I walked into the changing room with my bag, the boys were staring at me, not really believing it," Brückner said.

Brückner previously played in the zweite liga back in 2002-03, but the 30-year-old had long retired. He could make his first career top-flight appearance.

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