{"id":82452,"date":"2026-05-14T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:52:11","slug":"union-berlin-trio-to-depart-as-free-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82452\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Berlin trio to depart as free agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rune Gjerulff<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/runegjerulff\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:100%;color:#1da1f2;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@runegjerulff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danilho Doekhi, Diogo Leite and Alex Kral will leave 1. FC Union Berlin as free agents when their contracts expire this summer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/17251.jpg\" alt=\"Article image\"\/><br \/>\nPhoto by Maja Hitij\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the final matchday of the Bundesliga season, 1. FC Union Berlin have confirmed the departures of three players.<\/p>\n<p>The German capital club announced on Thursday that Danilho Doekhi, Diogo Leite, and Alex Kr\u00e1l will leave the club as free agents when their contracts expire this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Doekhi and Leite have been key figures in Union\u2019s defence over the past four seasons, making 136 and 135 appearances respectively as regular starters at the back.<\/p>\n<p>Kr\u00e1l, who initially joined on loan from Spartak Moscow in 2023 before making the move permanent, has made 53 appearances for Union.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the playing trio, goalkeeping coach Michael Gspurning and physiotherapist Silvio Thieme will also depart at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>All five will bid an official farewell to the fans before Saturday\u2019s final home match against Augsburg at the Stadion An der Alten F\u00f6rsterei.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rune Gjerulff@runegjerulff Danilho Doekhi, Diogo Leite and Alex Kral will leave 1. FC Union Berlin as free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190],"class_list":{"0":"post-82452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116573264179304513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}