Shanghai Sauerkrauts

Place: Tian ma Football Stadium

Time: 14.00 – 15.45 pm

Saturday, the 17^th of January, was like every day, nothing special though. After I got up at 8 am in the morning, went out for jogging one hour, made some breakfast, did some housework, prepared lunch, it was already time to pack my football bag.

Two minutes after 12.30 pm I arrived at the Carrefour market in Gubei and the first thing I had to hear was a lection from Father Hesmer about punctuality. For that reason, he was driving extra risky, or maybe his driving skills are just like that. Nevertheless, we made it to the pitch around 1.10 pm, were we had to realize that nobody else had arrived yet. The rest of the team arrived in short intervals, just our model Turk came late and I am sure, as he also left earlier, and I don’t wanna mention the 100% scoring chance he had, he will be happy to pay some beer fee in the team cash box.

After everybody got dressed and an exhausting warm up phase, Teamchef Helmut annunciated the team formation (4-4-2), which nobody really surprised, as we have a saying “never change a wining formation”. The team for that day had 16 players available, which was a good basis for a better result as the weeks before.

The game started punctual at 14.00 pm. The first 10/15 min the match seemed equal, no huge chances for both teams, everything was open. The first goal unfortunately was scored by the Korean team, after a corner one of their players were flying in our box and scored with a nice header. After the first goal, the German Team lost confidence and so the Korean had more chances. One of them they scored, after a fast counter attack and a smart shoot from the striker. From my perspective, it was offside, but it is no secret that the football league recruits blind man for part time job.

The half time break was characterized by motivation speeches and courage slogans. Strengthened, our team started the second half well. The Korean Team didn’t have too much chances and the German Team was trying to build up their own game. In the second half, we got stable in the defense and played better in the offensive, so we made more goal scoring chances, but none of them was successful. After a bad muscle ache, Father Hesmer had to be substituted and was exchanged with the returned “Sparwasser”. It was the young and sporty guy, who used a misunderstanding from all other players and scored the 1:2 in the 83. minute. Just two minutes later, the older and well experienced Juergen scored the deserved equalizer with an incredible header.

The last five minutes of the match were a hard fight for both teams as the Korean Team thought they already won that game and wanted to score again, and the German team who wanted to defend the result. Fortunately, nothing important happened and so the referee finished the match as he was blowing his whistle 3 times.

Summarize:

We fought hard and won 1 point. Lets keep that performance!

Niggo Anders (...als die andern).