Former Fleetwood boss Uwe Rosler in the front line for football's return in Germany

Former Fleetwood Town boss Uwe Rosler admits to a lot of nerves as German football leads the way in returning to action tomorrow.
Uwe Rosler oversees his final match as Fleetwood boss against Doncaster in February 2018Uwe Rosler oversees his final match as Fleetwood boss against Doncaster in February 2018
Uwe Rosler oversees his final match as Fleetwood boss against Doncaster in February 2018
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Rosler’s Fortuna Dusseldorf are at home to Padeborn in a crucial Bundesliga basement battle, one of six matches taking place in Germany’s elite competition on the first day that action resumes.

Both clubs are in the bottom three and it is a crunch contest after 10 weeks off the field due to coronavirus.

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The 51-year-old told the BBC: “The break came not at a good time for us because we were just playing better and better. So I don’t know how we come out of this, how match fit we are, how long we can sustain, what is the mental state of everyone and how much we can focus on football.

“These are all questions we can find out along the way. I think we will try to prepare the players.

“We put a lot of resources into preparing players as well as we can and always being positive, but the real answers we find out on Saturday.

“Of course there are a lot of nerves and questions to be answered but I think it has helped that this week we could train full contact.

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“When we are on the football pitch we are back to normal. Everything off the football pitch, when we step back over that white line, the world is still very strange for us.

“I think the main thing is how we get the focus in general back to winning football matches because there is a lot of things going through all our minds 24/7.”

In Rosler’s first season as Fleetwood boss (2016-17), Town recorded the highest finish in their history, fourth in League One. However, a relegation battle the following season saw the German sacked in the February.

He has since spent 18 months in charge of Swedish club Malmo before taking over at Dusseldorf in January, his first coaching job in his homeland.

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