Sports whispers by Dieter Priglmeir © hep
A Clark Kent of football, two weird keepers, a Raboner artist - it's a shame that they won't be kicking in the future.
Last matchday with our amateur kickers. This will also make our referees sweat, or rather the one-piecers. Because all games are on Saturday, they are running out of Schiris, especially since there are eleven so-called sidecar games in which 33 referees are tied. But Christian Trompke and Julian Schaub have made it, have brought in reinforcements from other groups, so that everything down to the C-Class is occupied.
The alternative would have been to let the clubs regulate the game management among themselves. That would be annoying on the one hand, but interesting on the other because it might be a model for the future in view of the Shiri lull.
Four players don't need to worry anymore, though, because they're – to paraphrase Roger Murtaugh from Leathal Weapon – "too old for this shit". They hang up their boots – and also their goalkeeper gloves. Which brings us to Andi "Stuze" Stürzer, who still wants to stay in the league with DJK Ottenhofen, but is above all an Oberding legend. He has played over 500 games for TuS. Football boss Tobi Huber calls him a "model professional amateur" who sometimes drives home from Berlin at five o'clock in the morning so that he can be in goal in the afternoon. For his TuS, to which he remained loyal forever, although district and state league clubs were queuing up. Stürzer is "a braver who didn't really deliver any wild stories," says Huber, only to then tell with a grin about his buddy's little peculiarities: for example, the "souped-up three-seater Golf with M3 mirror, with double-declutching, which you heard nicely when he drove away from home". Or that he was always the last to come out of the dressing room and then surprised players and referees with his goalkeeper kit. Huber: "That was always all the rage." The parties in the Stürzer cellar were also legendary, where the keeper and amateur DJ NJOY ("We make the hut burn") installed so many spotlights, fog and ice machines on 20 square meters that even the stage technicians from the ESC song contest paled. And yet he himself has always had a clear view, "because Stuze drinks almost no alcohol," says Huber. Only once did Dr. Andi Jekyll become the wild Mr. Stuze Hyde. At a footballer's wedding, he first needed a painkiller and then sipped the wine. "That was a station wagon. That's when he became a party animal." Or in other words, he was Stuze-drunk.
Michael Helneder is a bit more resistant to drinking, we suspect. What is certain, however, is that the 34-year-old came back from retirement to help FC Finsing 2 in the district class again. The Raboner, his favorite trick, still didn't work. "Really never," says coach Thomas Bonnet, "but he's still as fast as ever, was a great reinforcement for us and made ten booths – more than ever before." You can also celebrate victories there. Intense and long, like a legendary party night. "When Michi came home, he had the idea of taking the dog for a walk," says his coach. "Unfortunately, he didn't quite make it because the game had exhausted him too much. He told his dog how well he played. Then he lay down with him." The two then probably fell asleep blissfully. "The only problem was that the front door was still open."
Let's move on to Maxi Hofmeister, who is playing his last game today. What will SV Eichenried lose with the 31-year-old keeper? A dutiful footballer who, when he was red-banned, had jogged from Eichenried to Forstern to the game to warm up the goalkeeper despite a night of drinking," says his teammate Stefan Adam. And who once won a crate of beer. Before the game against Taufkirchen, he had bet with coach Andi Ostermair that he would miss BSG striker Thomas Götzberger with a shot in the leg. That's what he did – as a goalkeeper, mind you.
Christian Enzbrunner's career was not quite so wild, quite the opposite. When he moved to the men of SC Kirchasch, "he was relatively slender, small, very skinny and had glasses," as his long-time companion Maxi Bals recalls. And yet he scored goals on the assembly line right from the start. Why? Because everyone underestimated him. His first coach in the men's section, Anderl Faltermaier, was sure of that, who gave the striker the name: "Da kloa Enze mit da Bruin." What can you say? Clark Kent or Harry Potter were often underestimated. Now the 33-year-old wants to cut back. The KSC will miss him, many opposing defenders will be quite happy ...
Finally, two pieces of good news from the refereeing camp. According to chairman Knut Friedrich, no one wants to retire. And from 3 to 6 August, there will be a referee crash course. No, this has nothing to do with "Shiri, we know where your car is". Rather, you can make the appearance in four days - and ensure that the one-piece suits do not sweat so much in the future.
We say goodbye to four football heroes
