Spanish Teen Daniel Berzosa Signs With TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen for 2026/27

TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen announced on March 18 their second new signing for the 2026/27 season: 19-year-old left-hander Daniel Berzosa, who will move to the first team from second-division side 1. FSV Mainz 05. At 19, Berzosa becomes the youngest Spanish player to join a top-flight German club. With the signing confirmed, three Spaniards will be represented in the TTBL: Álvaro Robles at Saarbrücken, Juan Pérez at Grenzau, and Berzosa at Ochsenhausen, all members of the national team.

Berzosa has been training at the training centre in Ochsenhausen for a year, where he also lives, and has initially been offered a one-year contract. The left-hander is currently ranked 164th in the men's world rankings. The move is a natural progression rather than a cold transfer: Berzosa already knows the environment, the staff, and the daily rhythms of a club that won the German Table Tennis Cup for the fifth time this season, defeating 1. FC Saarbrücken TT 3-1 in the final.

Berzosa left no ambiguity about how much the step means to him. "I'm absolutely delighted to be joining the team in Ochsenhausen," he said. "It has always been a dream of mine to play in the first Bundesliga – for me, it is the strongest league in Europe. What appeals to me particularly is that I will be playing for a club where I work with my teammates and my coach on a daily basis. That is a huge advantage. I see this opportunity as a chance to develop further and grow as a player. Competing week in, week out against some of the best players in the world motivates me enormously. It spurs me on to train hard every day so that I am as well prepared as possible for the challenges in the Bundesliga."

TTF President Kristijan Pejinovic framed the decision as a deliberate, measured one. "Daniel has been training with us at the LMC for over a year now, and following careful consideration and discussions with the head coach, we would like to give him the chance to become part of the team at an early stage," Pejinovic said. "Daniel has had a solid season so far in the 2nd Bundesliga, and we are excited to see what qualities he will bring to the first team in the TTBL in the future. At the same time, we know that we must give him the time he needs to settle into the team and the league."

In his new squad, Berzosa will share a locker room with world No. 14 Shunsuke Togami of Japan, alongside fellow young talents including Romanians Iulian Chirița and Darius Movileanu, Brazilian Leonardo Iizuka, and Portuguese Tiago Abiodun. Movileanu was Ochsenhausen's first new signing for 2026/27, with the 20-year-old Romanian expected to take the next step in his development at the club. Berzosa is the second piece of what Ochsenhausen is building as a distinctly young roster for the coming season.

Berzosa made the jump to the 2. Bundesliga this season with Mainz, impressing enough in his debut campaign that clubs from the top flight began taking notice, with Ochsenhausen ultimately securing his signature. The daily training setup at the club's LMC facility, where Berzosa already lives full-time, gives the arrangement an unusual continuity: when the 2026/27 TTBL season begins, he will already have been inside Ochsenhausen's system for two years.