Bundesliga club St Pauli, who have a reputation for doing things differently, included one of their media officers in the squad for Saturday’s game against Hanover 96 due to a lack of fit defenders.
Hauke Brueckner, 30, who works as a press officer for the alternative Hamburg club and plays for the Under-23 team, received a call from coach Holger Stanislawski who told him to turn up at training “in one hour”.
