Good news for FC Schalke 04: Benedikt Höwedes has returned to full training.

The captain coached after his medial ligament partial demolition on Wednesday again with the colleagues. In order for the world champion could be an option for the next Bundesliga game against Mainz 05 (13 September), after the international break. First coach Andre Breitenreiter was still assumed that the Schalke captain after his serious medial ligament partial demolition until mid-September must undergo individual units. Now Höwedes is obviously ahead of schedule.

However S04 also had to cope with a setback. Marco Hoger had to stop training with a knee injury.

Under new coach Andre Breitenreiter the Royal Blues have been started moderately in the season. After three games, Schalke are four points in ninth.

Höwedes had suffered in mid-May in the Bundesliga match against former club rider width SC Paderborn a complex injury in his left ankle with an almost complete rupture of the medial collateral ligament, a partial rupture of the syndesmosis, a capsule injury and a bone edema.

Then a plaster cast the 27-year-old had initially been applied for two weeks. Hopes for a comeback of the defender already for the season opener had been shattered during the preparations due to the sluggish healing process.