The imminent completion of Yusuf Maart's move will be subsequently followed by what will rank as a difficult start in the Austrian Football Bundesliga.
Maart is in already in Reid im Innkreis, where the paperwork relating to his move to SV Ried 1912 from Kaizer Chiefs is being finalised.
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He has submitted his application for the Red-White-Red card, the visa document needed by non-European Union passport holders after passing medicals.
The Red-White-Red Card is issued for a period of 24 months and entitles the holder to fixed-term settlement and employment by the employer specified in your application.
The 29-year-old spent three years at Chiefs, where he ultimately became the captain, just like he did at his other previous employer Sekhukhune United.
Maart will have it tough in starting his time out at the newly promoted club.
SV Ried’s first three league matches will be against two of the champions in the last three seasons.
They will open the new campaign at home on August 2 against Red Bull Salzburg.
Salzburg were Austrian champions for 10 years in a row before being replaced by Sturm Graz in the last two years.
Sturm Graz will be Ried’s opponents in week three in another match for Maart’s new employers-in-waiting.
In between playing these two matches, they will face Rheindorf Altach.
With South Africa taking interest in the Austrian Bundesliga, it will mean understanding how the 12-team league functions.
The teams play home and away against all their opponents and upon the end of that round, the top six teams go into the Championship play-off, while the bottom half take the relegation round route.
Points from the regular championship schedule are then halved before another home and away schedule in both the championship and relegation groups.
The team finishing top is crowned champions, while the one at the bottom of the relegation round goes down to Admiral 2. Liga, where Ried played last season.
This makes it a 32-game season.
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At Ried, Maart will have fellow South African Antonio van Wyk for company.
The club also has Moritz Kossman – who was previously at Ubuntu Cape Town and Cape Town City – in its technical team.
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