One cliché says that the public interested in football only looks to Wolfsburg when the Brazilian Grafite dupes Bayern by hoe, Felix Magath puts a master bowl up. Or a prominent coach is released for unsuccessful. That is mean, but at least trace elements stick to every cliché. In any case, at VfL Wolfsburg you have developed a certain awareness of the problem, you know that nobody looks when a club stands for unsuccessful football and for living.
With a view to this recently less satisfactory overall situation, the Wolfsburgers could now have succeeded in a small transfer coup: On Wednesday, the obligation of the Danish Christian Eriksen, 33, was announced, a midfielder with a rank and name and a world -famous history. And even if he was last without a club – after the end of the contract at Manunited at the end of last season, he had kept fit in Malmö – Eriksen could not only bring fine passes, but also bring a little color to the center edge channel.
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Officially, Manuel Neuer resigned from the DFB team, but he is also officially symptom-free and in very good form. His consultant sends a meaningful sentence towards national coaches, Uli Hoeneß immediately takes a stand.
At the Wolfsburg club homepage, access was already completely announced as a “playmaker with an international format”, due to the formatting style even in capital letters. And VfL sports director Peter Christiansen, a rather grim type without public urge, raved about his circumstances. In Eriksen, according to Christiansen in the communiqué, you got a player who “saw and experienced and experienced everything” at the highest level “. In addition, his “enormous experience”, his “playful class” and his “personality” in particular would “give” valuable impulses “.
In this context, one does not have to think that Christiansen is also a Danish; In Joakim Maehle, Jesper Lindström, Andreas Skov Olsen, Adam Daghim and Jonas Wind, five other compatriots currently belong to the Wolfsburg professional squad. Interestingly, Christiansen is said to have recently prevailed against Eriksen against another Danes: Kasper Hjulmand, the new coach of Bayer Leverkusen, also also had also contacted, but the factory club received the contract from the Autostadt.
“I am convinced that we can move something together in Wolfsburg,” Eriksen is quoted in the club notification; “Well -known faces” from the Danish national team also played a role in his decision. The well -known faces will now meet one of the most famous faces in the country: with 144 international matches (46 goals), Eriksen Denmark is a record national player. He also played 300 games in the English Premier League, most of them won the Italian championship title for Tottenham Hotspur, and with Inter Milan.
After his cardiac arrest, Eriksen was again able to profile himself as a high -class footballer
During his time at Inter, the scenes that everyone has in mind also occurred when he is not exactly thinking about Eriksen’s free kick skills: at the European Championship in the summer of 2021 the midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest, the pictures of his motionless body were around the world. “I was far away,” said Eriksen about these “minutes in which I was practically in heaven”. A defibrillator was then used, in Italy he was no longer eligible to play. In England, on the other hand. There he was able to profile himself again in Brentford and Manchester as the playmaker of international format, from which can be read on the Wolfsburg homepage.
Which position Eriksen should hold at the Werkelf, what his fitness is, these are all questions that can only be answered when the season progresses. In any case, the Wolfsburgers are properly occupied in the central midfield, including with the captain Maximilian Arnold, access Vini Souza and the Croatian Lovro Majer, recovered after injury. A little football finesse and celebrity factor can hardly hurt on the Mittelland Canal. Because the VfL made a clean start of the season under the new coach Paul Simonis, with four points from two games. So far, the public interested in football has not yet looked towards Wolfsburg.
