To short place, panoramic views and cold showers: SC adopts Dreesamstadion

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Coach Christian Streich would have been almost better, it would have given a ceremony and no Bundesliga game, in which it is about important points, he told before the farewell from the triple stadium. It was to note the 56-year-old that he has worried, the great expectations of this last Bundesliga game in the 1954 initiated stadium could burden his team too much. We must not want too much and need to get an emotional balance, said prank and did not want to be too much with themselves .

This is likely to be difficult, after the association s memories of the previous 22 Bundesliga years and also the in the 2nd league were produced. And prank also knows that on Sunday evening some sitting on the grandstand, which are long connected to the club and shaped it. This also includes Volker Finke, who was coach from the sports club from 1991 to 2007 and has increased with him in 1993 for the first time in the Bundesliga. The last first division game against Augsburg will be emotional for him too but the beautiful is that you do not have a say goodbye, because played further there, says Finke. For for the third division team and the Bundesliga women of the SC, the Dreisstadion is the new home when the team is moved from prank to the Europa Park Stadium.

With his early time, however, today s stadium does not have much to do much, recalls Finke: We did not have a floodlight at the beginning, and the players were partly driving home for showering because there was no hot water. Three major expansion phases he has witnessed in the SC in the SC in his 16 years and driven by. We invested in stones at that time, and not in legs, says Finke. Even if the deceased SC President Achim Stocker wanted to put the money in the team and wondered before each expansion stage: Trainer, we stay in it?

too short, too wide and with a meter gradient

Class preservation is still the only goal issued by the SC managers before each season. Also on the unusual playing field nothing has changed in the years afterwards. To date, the club needs a special permit because the place is shorter than allowed. For this he is wider than usual and has almost a meter of gradient towards the trier. That was in the opinion of Finke never a disadvantage, the football was therefore not worse . On the contrary: There was more and more space for possession and combination football, quickly playing forward, it was more difficult. Even if that behind us was requested from the grandstand again and again.

The narrowness in the stadium that the viewers not only sit the coaches in the neck, but are so close to the playing field on all sides, makes much of the atmosphere for the 73-year-old. In addition, there is still the situation that you have in view of the Black Forest from anywhere in the stadium, that s special, enthuses Finke. In contrast to the current coach, who now almost ten years the pros is looked after and works in the club for more than 25 years, he will have time on Sunday, to revel in memories - for example to the three home victories against Bayern in the first years.

Prank between joy and sadness

Because of the dense atmosphere and the special space conditions, the opponents are not happy to come to the triple stadium. Now you hope at the sports club on the fact that the Augsburgers are on Sunday. Prank stressed that it was his job and his team to not be touched .

That this should not be easy for him, at least before the penultimate home game against Cologne, he has admitted. If something is beautiful and I like it somewhere, it s not so easy for me to let go of the beautiful and the whole atmosphere as it has grown and patched, said prank and added: I look forward to the new stadium But I already miss the old one.