An evening full of anecdotes in the Eintracht Museum: How Seppl Rode experienced his bloody evening from Seville and what Simon Rolfes connects with Markus Krösche.
Sebastian “Seppl” Rode did not think about giving up on May 18, 2022. He was conscious, he says. When the blood ran over his face from his head wound. After only five minutes of play in the Sevilla stadium. Five minutes in the final of the Euro League against the Glasgow Rangers, you don’t give up.
It was the biggest evening in Sebastian Rode’s soccer career, which began at the Kickers in Offenbach. The blood-glued jersey of No. 17 is now exhibited in the Eintracht Museum, on the ground floor of the large arena in the city forest. At a central center with all the details of the century event from the point of view of the eagle carrier and their fans.
Schlappenkicker evening in the Eintracht Museum: Time for Old Football Stories
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In the evening in the Eintracht Museum there is time for stories. For old football stories, for new dreams. If the days get shorter and an early autumn wind whirls the leaves in front of the arena in the city forest over the forecourt, there is time to sit around the campfire. Former athletes: The inside meet: Turner Johannes Hablik and footballer Peter Fischer, who have been supported by the Schlappenkicker for years. But other Schlappekicker friends such as dressage Olympic champion Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff, now among others. Sports representative of the Hessian state refusal, the former cross-country skier Ulrike Spitz, now a member of the Schlappekicker board, the popular and formerly successful athletics couple Sylvia Schenk and Franz-Josef Kemper, Turner Willi Jaschek, at Olympia in 1968 as “hero of Mexico” in the annals when he Achilles tendon tear ended the competition, national table tennis, Klaus Schmittingger, hockey player Stefan Blöcher, double silver medalist at the Olympics and many footballers, led by ex-entry national player Peter Reichel.
Frankfurt sports journalists who have accompanied the current events over decades, origins of the industry, have come, FR managing director Max Rempel is there, Philipp Reschke from the board of Eintracht. You meet in a relaxed atmosphere with beer and cider, bratwurst, meatball, potato salad, green sauce and Obatzter. Invited by the board of the Schlappenkicker, guest at Eintracht. The tasting of the guests goes to the house.
Loose chats with the interview guests Rode and Rolfes
Eintracht icon Sebastian Rode, one of the guests of honor at the Schlappekicker evening in the museum, comes back with crutches, the knee. Also a reason for his career end last year. His fans will be happy to hear in addition to the memories of good times, a return in a new function is not excluded, which flashes through in the end. “Eintracht knows what it has about me, we will see”, a nice closing word after the entertaining conversation about sports and world tours with the family, the past and the future with FR-DRACHT expert Ingo Durstewitz. And a lot of applause for the popular “Seppl”.
Interview partner of Harald Stenger to get started in the evening with a “colorful bouquet made of sports center” is Simon Rolfes, sports director at Bayer Leverkusen. Former national player Rolfes and the then press spokesman for the national team, now the deputy slapping kicker chairman, have known and understand each other for many years, it will be a relaxed chat. The flash of the successor of master coach Xabi Alonso, Erik Ten Hag, on the second matchday of the new season, must of course be the first topic. Before Rolfe’s analysis, as the former “vice kusen” managed to take off this flaw and became a double winner in 2024.
“Better now than too late?” Stenger’s submission to the coaching question comes precisely, so the friend does not have to counter with diplomacy. “Nobody was really surprised, everything was wrong. It went in the wrong direction, it was no alternative.” After Alonso’s idea, a false grip can happen in the fast-moving football million business, “you have to go there,” said Rolfes, who, incidentally, was once at Werder Bremen with the current equally successful Eintracht sports director Markus Krösche. You understood well, the somewhat older scroll already had an Opel Corsa with which the boys drove to the baker in the morning. You can also find out something like this at the Schlappekicker evening in the Eintracht Museum.
Schlappenkicker Chairman Festerling talks to Eintracht-board member Reschke about fan culture
And what is about the fan culture at Eintracht. The Champions League anthem will be heard in the stadium on Thursday. The next dream trip of the eagles begins with the game against Galatasaray Istanbul. The hut will burn, the stadium will experience a hot evening, with Turkish fans from all over the republic. Philipp Reschke from the Eintracht board, questioned by the Schlappekicker chairman Arnd Festerling, has the closing word. Reschke talks about the “magic of unity” by team and audience. “The team is the star, the mood is the star, it is an atmospheric work of art.” When the “White” moved into the Barcelona stadium, the train 2022 of around 30,000 Eintracht fans to the game in Nou Camp, it even had “what biblical”.
