The professionals Andreas Voglsammer and Vitus and Ex-Kicker talk about their cup experiences.
The professional soccer season starts this weekend with the DFB Cup.
However, Andreas Voglsammer will not be there.
The 28-year-old from Dorfen had hardly recovered from his metatarsal fracture.
But the Arminia Bielefeld striker is already working on his comeback: “The rehab is going well.
I'm fully on schedule, ”he says.
However, he will miss the cup game against Rot-Weiß Essen. Voglsammer hopes that his colleagues will not make it as exciting as four years ago, when the Arminen only won 5-4 on penalties against Essen.
Last year Bielefeld also had to go to penalties - against FC Astoria Walldorf, tenth place in the Regionalliga.
Voglsammer was one of the successful shooters and helped to avoid the embarrassment.
On the other hand, he has never been involved in a cup sensation, although he once scored for Haching in the cup against 1. FC Köln.
But the Bundesliga team had already been successful twice before, and nothing came of it with “Wunderhaching”.
This also applied to Arminia's chase against Schalke 04. The then second division team came up to 2: 3 after 0: 3, then a Schalke rescued on the goal line, Voglsammer only hit the post.
Vitus Eicher's memories are also somewhat ambivalent.
The goalkeeper from Langengeisling is number 2 at 1. FC Heidenheim behind Kevin Müller.
In the cup game at Werder Bremen, he was finally allowed to go into the box, and then his people in front played what was probably the worst first quarter of an hour in the Heidenheim Cup history.
After 18 minutes, the Swabians were 0: 3 behind - final score 1: 4.
But the team can also do different things, knocked Bayer Leverkusen out and brought Bayern to the verge of defeat in the legendary 4-5 (and that wasn't a penalty shoot-out).
A victory in the Allianz Arena, that would of course have pleased the ex-lion.
Incidentally, his father Manfred was in the box in a cup game against TSV 1860. In the mid-1980s, FC Langengeisling played against the then Bayern division.
With a counterattack (!) Sechzig took the lead.
And then there were penalties for the Geislinger.
Günter Neef, the shooter at the time, remembers his three thoughts: “Great, we'll get a penalty!” Then: “Oh dear, nobody gets the ball, nobody pushes themselves to shoot.” And finally: “Shit, the ball will never find it. ”He shot the way Uli Hoeneß shot in Belgrade in 1976.
The FCL lost 0-1.
1200 spectators had seen the game at that time.
It was over 2000 two years ago, when the women of FC Forstern played 0: 9 against VfL Wolfsburg.
The umpteen-time German champions and cup winners are guests in Forstern - the dignitaries would not have dared to dream of that in the 1970s when the women's department was founded.
Not even their first trainer, Sepp Walke, who quickly threw in the towel.
You can read about him in the club's chronicle: "He emigrated straight to Australia."
We want to end with the greatest cup history of all time: Bernd Trautmann played the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium in 1956 with a broken cervical vertebra.
What does that have to do with Erding?
After winning the final, he relaxed for a few days at the Neuwirt in Niederding.
He had the trophy with him - and his mighty head bandage, which should actually be even more famous than the legendary Dieter Hoeneß turban from 1982.
DIETER PRIGLMEIR
Cup experiences from
professionals and ex-kickers