Experienced veteran facing new task: Final as the final point: Freiburg’s Höfler ends his career

This means that Höfler will stop playing professional football in the final of the Europa League on May 20th in Istanbul against Aston Villa. The nice thing is that he can continue to do something in the club, said the veteran. There will be more information about this in the next few weeks.

Model student from the Freiburg football school

Höfler was a top performer for years and was hard to imagine Freiburg’s starting eleven without, but this season he increasingly only played a smaller role with little playing time under coach Julian Schuster. In the semi-final second leg of the Europa League, when the Baden team secured their place in the final with a win against Sporting Braga, he started from the start after Yuito Suzuki was unavailable.

Höfler moved to Baden in 2005 and comes from the well-known Freiburg football school. After a two-year loan to Erzgebirge Aue between 2011 and 2013, he was used by the professionals.

He had a “great time” behind him and “experienced many beautiful emotional moments,” said Höfler. The finale in Istanbul is also likely to be emotional.