{"id":103130,"date":"2025-09-16T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103130"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:40:26","slug":"german-fa-hits-heidenheim-striker-budu-zivzivadze-with-three-match-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/german-fa-hits-heidenheim-striker-budu-zivzivadze-with-three-match-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"German FA hits Heidenheim striker Budu Zivzivadze with three-match-ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bad news continues to rain down on last-placed Bundesliga side 1. FC Heidenheim. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/player-ratings-heidenheim-0-2-borussia-dortmund\/\">Saturday&#8217;s league loss against Borussia Dortmund<\/a> has now cost the relegation-threatened side two players. Striker Budu Zivzivadze will not be available for head coach Frank Schmidt until mid October thanks to a straight red card picked up early in the match. The DFB issued a stern punishment on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heidenheim stood little chance against heavily favored Dortmund thanks to starting left-back Leart Pa\u00e7arada&#8217;s 7th-minute injury and Zivzivadze&#8217;s 22nd-minute red card. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/last-placed-heidenheim-rocked-by-news-of-leart-pacaradas-brutal-acl-tear\/\">it was revealed that Pa\u00e7arada suffered a serious ACL tear that will keep him out for most of the season.<\/a> Zivzivadze&#8217;s open-sole stomp of Dortmund&#8217;s Felix Nmecha has earned him a three-match-ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Georgian striker counts as a massive transfer flop for Heidenheim after scoring only two goals in 23 competitive appearances for<em> the Ostalbenschwaben<\/em> since joining from Karlsruher SC in January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt nevertheless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/bundesliga-2025-26-tactical-previews-1-fc-heidenheim\/\">maintains very few options in attack.<\/a> The only player to have scored a goal for Schmidt&#8217;s team thus far this season, Leo Scienza, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/heidenheim-head-coach-expresses-bewilderment-at-leo-scienzas-southampton-sale\/\">since departed the club for the Isle.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last-placed 1. FC Heidenheim received more bad news on Tuesday when it was revealed that striker Budu Zivzivadze will miss three Bundesliga matches due to a disciplinary suspension.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":103131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[334,11],"tags":[1939,476,2504,449,934,1612,3451,1028],"class_list":["post-103130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heidenheim","category-bundesliga","tag-1-fc-heidenheim-2","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-budu-zivzivadze","tag-bundesliga","tag-felix-nmecha","tag-frank-schmidt","tag-leo-scienxa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103133,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103130\/revisions\/103133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}