How Peter Feldmann won the trophy
Created: 05/20/2022, 15:07
By: Thomas Stillbauer
Coach Glasner and Captain Rode seem to have secured the trophy - OB Feldmann grabs it (from left to right).
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In the greatest Eintracht moment, the mayor puts on a remarkable solo.
People are still being sought who didn't find it embarrassing.
Frankfurt – Man, that was great how Peter Feldmann lasted almost the entire European Cup final on Wednesday evening in the cauldron of Seville (pronounced “Mickey Mouse Stadium”) with a blatant laceration to the head.
bloodied!
Not?
Oh, that was Seppel Rode?
Well then – how he converted the last penalty!
Neither?
Held a 911?
nope
Wait a minute: Then he made this fantastic team fit for the greatest success of their … – not even that?
Was that Oliver Glasner?
Yes, dear people, why did Mayor Peter Feldmann take the trophy from Seppel and Oliver in the town hall at the greatest moment in Eintracht history for more than four decades?
Why did he want to carry the thing into the Kaisersaal himself?
Eintracht Frankfurt: Rode's view of eternity
"Peter is an uncontrollable rocket," Eintracht board spokesman Axel Hellmann said in the afternoon.
He meant Peter Fischer, the Eintracht President, yes, that's the one with the "Mickey Mouse Stadium" (no, that wasn't Feldmann either), who likes to give the fans one, and the fans don't just love idolatrous for that reason.
But it also applies to Feldmann, that with the first name Peter and that with the rocket that can go off in any direction at any time.
The rest not so much.
The return of unity from Seville in pictures
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So as the OB wrests the trophy from the heroes of Seville, he creates a moment for eternity.
Seppel Rode's look at the coach will go down in history.
He says: What does the strange man want with our trophy?
Or rather: Oh god – he's back!
"So, dear friends, that's what the trophy looks like," announces Feldmann.
Aha!
The world finally finds out.
Then the agonizingly long speech, while 100,000 people outside have not been waiting directly for the mayor for the past five hours, but for... "Bye!
Cheeprill Soo?
Who is this?
"Evan Nickdika"?
Makoto Hasabee?
Eintracht Frankfurt squad: names that nobody knows
The mayor reads out names that have never been heard before in the Eintracht squad and then, of course, goes onto the balcony to bathe in the cheers of the fans.
He's allowed to do that. Nobody else, not even the mayor, who ensured an unprecedented series of victories in the European Cup when she joined the club, not even the head of the sports department.
This instruction, it is said from usually well-informed circles, was given in writing.
Guess who that was?
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Feldmann asked for leniency on his Facebook page the next day.
"Big sorry!" He wrote: "For a moment yesterday I was more of a Eintracht fan than the mayor."
One thing is certain: a conventional Eintracht fan usually knows the names of the players better than a conventional OB.
One way or another, this big Frankfurt football jubilee night should also be remembered as the night in which Peter Feldmann scored his most embarrassing own goal.
(Thomas Stillbauer)
