The final score was 2:0 in SC Kittsee’s favour. The second goal came only at 92 minutes. The game was very competitive with both sides giving it their all. There were a couple of close calls in the second half which would have made it a 1:1 game.

Both goals came off the boot of Jozef Sombat who had an excellent game, as did Adam Bombicz, Michael Wernecker and Juraj Fuska. Here’s what the game looked like.

Jaroslav Machovec was in fine form again.
While the ball went past Roman Ostojic, Daniel Pfeiffer quite correctly has his hand raised for offside.
While the ball went past Roman Ostojic, Daniel Pfeiffer quite correctly raises his hand for offside.
There was no real threat here with a a high ball which FC Winden keeper Roman Ostojic easily captured but Kittsee’s steady pressure up close gradually knocked Ostojic off his game.

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There’s a lovely tradition in Austria, called Lanternfest (Lantern Festival) which comes on the 11 November. The kindergarten children go for a walk with their lanterns, singing songs. Parents are invited and it’s a chance for the whole kindergarten to work together on a joint project, and parents to see how well the teachers are preparing their progeny for the next step in life, school.

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The above is a short video of this year’s Lanternfest in Kittsee.

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SC Kittsee struggled to beat a club in the top four last week. ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf controlled the game. This weekend at home we faced FC Illmitz who is the third of the three clubs including SC Kittsee contending for second place in II Liga Nord fall season.

The substantial crowd for the last home game at 17h on Saturday faced an unpleasant early surprise when Thomas Wickl scored after two minutes. The rest of the first half was fairly evenly matched with Mustafa Atik equalising at the end of the half. In the second half, SC Kittsee enjoyed breakaway after breakaway and notched two more goals. A decisive win over a worthy opponent, which bodes well for the spring season.

The game was very exciting and I have a lot of photos. Here’s the first seventeen including mostly the goals.

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Kirtag is an autumn celebration in Austrian villages which usually lasts a weekend in the first couple of weeks of September. At this year’s Kirtag, the music was really great. Happily the weather was good if not exceptional all weekend.

Here’s a few photos.

Obligatory fries and leberkase sandwiches. Fortunately for the gourmets, Bisto Hannah was there with excellent goulash.
Kahr/Post Office is turned into an open-air bar, lit by the shop windows.
Delicious 2018 Red Cuvée in elegant glasses poured by off-duty music verein leader Claudia Domschitz.
Constantin collecting an ice cream cone. The goulash is in the silver pot.
These guys were very good, the lead singer had a rich and acccurate baritone, and his players hit all the notes. This is the best band I’ve heard play Kittsee.
She’s in the Bistro Hannah car, enjoying delicious goulash and the music.

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It was a tough fall season for SC Kittsee with just two wins and 8 points sharing the bottom of the standings with Apetlon, positiond for relegation. The spring season has started off much better with a 1-1 tie with top tier SV Wimpassing on 26 March followed by 5-0 drubbing of fellow cellar-dweller Apetlon on Wednesday 30 March. On Saturday night, March 30, SC Kittsee earned another point, tying a lively mid-standings Tadten team, 1-1. That’s three games with one win and two ties in a week. Saturday night was very cold and ended in a snow storm. Here’s some photos.

Tadten team posted an excellent write-up of the game play in German. Here’s a quick translation:

After the draw at home against UFC Pama, a “tricky” away game awaited us in Kittsee.

From the beginning, we were well in the game against the somewhat unsettled home side.

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In an exciting game for spectators, USC Wallern literally fought their way to a 2:2 tie with SC Kittsee in a 97 minute slugfest. Wallern have always played dirty. Last year Wallern couldn’t stop Kittsee speedster Michal Slezak so they gave him a concussion instead and knocked him out of the game. The yellow card didn’t matter to them. Gattendorf complain about playing against Wallern as well: they’ve lost players to injury too. Kittsee did well to come out injury free this match.

That’s not to say Wallern’s tactics weren’t effective. Kittsee coach for the evening Markus Roth felt compelled to pull Patrick Dietmann at 2:1 as Dietmann was so angry about being repeatedly fouled. I can’t really blame the referee Arif Erdem: he called many yellow cards and couldn’t have his eyes everywhere. It would take a league season ban on some Wallern players to bring them under control.

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Last week SC Kittsee visited Winden for an evening game. FC Winden has the most amazing night lights in our league: they are about a full stop brighter than most of the league and almost two stops brighter than the darkest one. Good job providing enough light for our men to do their evening work well.

SC Kittsee came in well-prepared. After getting out to their usual 1:0 early lead, they kept running and running hard. At the start of the second half their hard work was rewarded with a second goal by Mario Marko. Jozef Sombat added a final goal at 75 minutes. Pavol Bellas could have added another two with a bit of luck. That’s the way to do it: start hard and never let your opponent catch his breath. The team effort made for a nice shutout evening for Manuel Schiszler.

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After a run of tough teams like Gattendorf and Pama, it was Kittsee’s turn to take on one of the historically weaker teams, Tadten.

Kittsee got off to a strong start with a goal from Jozef Sombat half way through the first half. After that Kittsee seemed to take their foot off the gas a bit but Pavol Bellas’s strong personal effort netted Kittsee a goal at 58 minutes. With a 2-0 lead and a clear advantage in play, Kittsee decided to hang back a bit and wait out that the last thirty minutes. Of course that resulted in a

The last twenty minutes were quite strange. The referee called many questionable flags against Kittsee, while every 50-50 ball went to Tadten. It was more than ten calls in a row. Most notably there was a situation where Pavol Bellas was pulled down by the Tadten player but it was Bellas who was penalised.

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A first round of photographs from a touch loss in Gattendorf on a beautiful September afternoon (12 September to be exact).
Gattendorf is always a tough team to beat. With three or four injuries and two red carded regulars from the last match, SC Kittsee put in a valiant effort but couldn’t keep up with Gattendorf in the second half.

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SC Andau visited Kittsee last weekend. Kittsee dominated Apetlon at Apetlon two weeks ago to move forward in the Raiffeissen Cup. Unsurprisingly, SC Kittsee was unable to defeat higher league club SC/ESV Parndorf on 14 August. Expectations were high going into the game when Andau came to visit on 22 August.

An early goal from Jozef Sombat had the home crowd happy. Manuel Schopf answered quickly for SC Andau but Kittsee dominated play. To the Kittsee home crowd and even players, it looked like referee Faruk Sevik seemed to be favouring Andau. The free kicks, disputed balls seemed to all go Andau’s way. Pavol Bellas received a yellow card at 27 minutes for an aggressive tackle. When ten minutes later a Bellas breakaway was called back on a non-offside, he lost his temper. The second yellow card sent him out of the game with a red card at 44 minutes.

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