Marco now back training in Stuttgart after appearing in all three of Stuttgart's friendlies in South Africa: unfortunately he picked up a slight knee injury in South Africa:
"Marco Rojas, who was suffering with a slight knee problem, trained individually....
Aside from the planned training sessions, this Tuesday VfB will play a friendly test game against second division SpVgg Greuther Fürth. For organizational reasons, the match will be played behind closed doors and is not open to the public."
All latest news reports: http://www.vfb.de/en/latest/news/page/10-0-1-.html
SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR:
# Second friendly - 4-1 win v PEC Zwolle (Netherlands) - on as 74 min. sub (Ryan Thomas played the first half for Zwolle):
http://www.vfb.de/en/aktuell/meldungen/news/2014/testspiel-pec-zwolle-vfb/page/2802-1-1-.html?f2
Line-ups:
VfB Stuttgart: Ulreich – Rausch (67‘ Boka), Rüdiger (62‘ Haggui) , Schwaab (62‘ Niedermeier), Sakai (74‘ Baumgartl) – Maxim, Gentner (62’ Kvist), Leitner (62‘ Khedira), Harnik (74‘ Sararer) – Ibisevic (74‘ Cacau), Abdellaoue (74’ Rojas)
PEC Zwolle: Farmer, Poland, Broerse, Van der Werff, Van Hintum, Mokotjo (79 Patricio.), Klich, Nijland, Thomas (46.Achenteh) (Pereira 77). (65 Labylle.) (75 Karagounis.) Fernandez (46.Benson) and Lutz (46.Gravenbeek).
# Third friendly: 65 minutes in 135 minute training game (three 45 minute periods) v Ajax Cape Town 1-2 loss:
http://www.vfb.de/en/aktuell/meldungen/news/2014/testspiel-vfb-ajax-cape-town/page/2810-1-1-.html?f2
The VfB line-up: Ulreich (46’ Kirschbaum, 91’ Vlachodimos) – Rausch (70’ Leibold), Rüdiger (70’ Haggui) , Schwaab (70’ Niedermeier), Sakai (70’ Boka) – Maxim (70’ Rojas), Gentner (46’ Khedira), Leitner (70’ Kvist, 123’ Gruezo), Harnik (74’ Wanitzek) – Ibisevic (70’ Cacau), Abdellaoue (46’ Sararer, 125’ Baumgartl)