วันจันทร์ที่ 24 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

'Football here is honest, fast and direct'

Uwe Rösler

, the former Germany striker who became a hero in Manchester City, has high hopes in the League

Early in the Premier League in mid-1990, Uwe Rösler was in its way a version of Eric Cantona of Manchester City. Less real, less pretentious - less successful - but strongly attached to the support of the club, a hero of blue sky between the first wave of foreign players in the first news sites. If Cantona's arrival was the signal for a boom generations in the United States, while the city was faced with Rösler sets down to retirement, the contrast between the two is even more pronounced.

Rösler was appointed director of the League One Brentford in June Five league games in his re-entry in English football chasteningly looks so fast and at home to walk by eating an apple in Hollywood certainly not near Griffin Park.

sprints Rösler When his heart to throw an apple on a wall before taking her picture, two thoughts occur: first, is very close to someone in the room window (Griffin Park is the kind of terrain), and second, it seems that it could still be out there doing a job for the team if he was. This is a significant achievement in itself for a man who almost lost his life to cancer in 2003. And if there is still a slight sense of the incongruity of the sight of this great, friendly, charismatic former Premier League star honored by taking care of minor power in the west of London, so it is important to note that any Rösler his career has been a process of reinvention of the street.

is, after all, a man who played international football five times for a country that no longer exists. Like many East Germans, the Berlin Wall fell in 1990 seems to have left a sense of movement. "People ask me where your house and I always say that I am a European," Rösler said. "My wife is Norwegian. I have my roots in Germany. And I had my best time in England. I feel at home.

"In some ways I was very pleased that the wall fell. There was a lot of possibilities. On the other hand I realized it was probably the end of my career International, particularly in West Germany won the World Cup in 1990. I was in competition with Rudi Voller, Jurgen Klinsmann, Oliver Bierhof. "

In 1994, 26, Rösler was signed by the City of Nuremberg by Brian Horton. English football has had a fascination of the time Rösler was sent to a football school of excellence in Leipzig for 11 years. "We heard on the tapes that night the British crowd, just the songs. It was amazing. This is where my interest in English football began. In East Germany could not see, then , so we had the sound in your place. "

"I liked it when I got here. Football English is poor.'S Honest. It's fast and simple. In the 90's was not so much tactics, c ' was like two boxers hit until you hit the ground. As a striker, I knew I would be a lot of possibilities. In Germany, there was a lot of man-marking and cleaning staff, who was much more difficult to score. "

Rösler scored 50 goals in 150 games for the city, but in retrospect it is easy to see his career tied around a series of exciting moments of balance. It was the bright object in a losing cause against United in the FA Cup with wild gestures towards the conclusion of his manager, Alan Ball, who had left the team ("I think good, if a player for me now" ). In addition, the incident in which Rösler threw his shoes in the city of fans at the end of a 6-0 defeat in their last game ("The fans, we are encouraged. It was a gesture of good will. But not everyone saw like that ").


bravery is something Rösler is able to speak. In 2003, shortly after scoring the winner of Lillestrøm SK in the first game of the season in Norway, was diagnosed with an aggressive tumor in his chest and said that without immediate surgery, could not survive. "My first thought was," Why me? "" When you were in an area where everything is based on healthy people, who had never met people who were sick or in the fight against the hospital for their life. It was a totally new experience.


"I just tried to survive. I think you can beat cancer, to some extent be very mentally positive, trust in doctors and treatments. The mental aspect is so strong in the healing of your body. "



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