{"id":43254,"date":"2015-07-09T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/the-steinmuehle-soccer-team-wk-iii-achieved-a-remarkable-4th-place-finish-at-the-state-finals-of-the-youth-trains-for-the-olympics-competition-in-gruenberg\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:26:51","slug":"the-steinmuehle-soccer-team-wk-iii-achieved-a-remarkable-4th-place-finish-at-the-state-finals-of-the-youth-trains-for-the-olympics-competition-in-gruenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2015\/07\/09\/the-steinmuehle-soccer-team-wk-iii-achieved-a-remarkable-4th-place-finish-at-the-state-finals-of-the-youth-trains-for-the-olympics-competition-in-gruenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Steinm\u00fchle soccer team (WK III) achieved a remarkable 4th-place finish at the state finals of the \u201cYouth Trains for the Olympics\u201d competition in Gr\u00fcnberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">The games played by the Steinm\u00fchlen soccer team (Division III), made up of 7th and 8th graders, were marked by constant ups and downs in this year\u2019s competition. After a clear victory in the city tournament, the team faced <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"><b>district tournament<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"> only to be initially eliminated following a questionable interpretation of the rules, but was ultimately admitted to the regional finals after filing a protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"><b>regional finals<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"> took place in Schwalmstadt. There, on May 6, 2015, our team secured a well-deserved victory with three wins and ultimately finished with a clear five-point lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">With a 2-0 opening victory over the team from Kirchhain, our team solidified its well-deserved advancement to the district finals. This was followed by two more decisive victories against the teams from Frankenberg (2-0) and Felsberg (3-0). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">Buoyed by great team spirit and strong team unity, the Steinm\u00fchlen team played beautiful, attacking soccer for long stretches of the game, which was ultimately rewarded with a 7-0 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">At the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"><b>Hesse championship in Gr\u00fcnberg<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"> , the bar was set a bit higher. In the preliminary round, the team won their matches against Limburg and Kriftel and put up a good fight against the eventual overall champion, the Carl-von-Weinberg School from Frankfurt, losing by a narrow margin (1\u20132). In the semifinal against Wiesbaden, however, the team made a few lapses in concentration, resulting in a decisive 0:3 loss that meant they didn\u2019t make it to the final but did qualify for the third-place match against Darmstadt. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\">In the third-place game, the Steinm\u00fchle soccer team quickly took a 2-0 lead but, despite their dominance on the field, were unable to hold on to their 4-2 lead as the game went on. The classmates who had traveled with the team were already in high spirits, but then they had to watch as the Darmstadt team tied the game and went on to defeat Steinm\u00fchle 8\u20136 in the ensuing penalty shootout. This meant fourth place for the Steinm\u00fchle soccer team.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Myriad Pro SemiExt,sans-serif\"> Looking at the four rounds of play as a whole, this 4th-place finish in Hesse is a great success. The fact that the teams from the \u201csoccer schools\u201d in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt took the top two spots was well-deserved and deserves recognition. It\u2019s unfortunate that we lost the last game and thus \u201cblew\u201d third place, but perhaps this can still be counted as a gain in the \u201cvaluable experience\u201d category. <\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01_5765-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5104\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/01_5765-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"01_5765 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"719\" height=\"480\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02_5774-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5105\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/02_5774-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"02_5774 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"718\" height=\"480\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03_5781-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5106\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/03_5781-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"03_5781 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"718\" height=\"480\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04_5798-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5107\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/04_5798-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"04_5798 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"719\" height=\"480\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05_5802-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5108\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/05_5802-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"05_5802 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"719\" height=\"480\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06_5814-FILEminimizer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5109\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/06_5814-FILEminimizer.jpg\" alt=\"06_5814 (FILEminimizer)\" width=\"718\" height=\"480\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The games played by the Steinm\u00fchlen soccer team (Division III), made up of 7th and 8th graders, were marked by constant ups and downs in this year\u2019s competition. After a clear victory in the city tournament, the team faced district tournament only to be initially eliminated following a questionable interpretation of the rules, but was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48692,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43254\/revisions\/48692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}