Overath: Today speaks FC boss

Cologne - Now talking the boss! There will be a fervent appeal ...
Thursday, before the afternoon training will be with Vice-President Wolfgang Overath Jürgen Glowacz occur in RheinEnergieStadion before the team.
The world champion of 1974 will speak to the team. And the players say: "Well, that Podolski is there. But he only comes in the summer. Now you play the main role. Ensures that we play after the first round too great a good second half. "
Overath words are intended to enhance the self esteem of the players. For the months of wrangling over the commitment of Lukas Podolski, the merits of the crew perished, as criticizing FC coach Christoph Daum modified correctly.
"I simply talked too much about Podolski," said Daum, "it must have an end now. Our boys are now important. In the second half of the Bundesliga league means for us to survive. And because we need every man, if we did the class receive, we can talk again about Podolski. "
Even the fans have a sense of the mood within the team. They gave the players a poster with 900 signatures, in order to assess their performance of the past fifteen years.
For, despite a respectable nine points for the second half of the relegation zone is no automatic process. A Negativserie could bring back the upstart threatened.
And suddenly in peril, the beautiful and ambitious future plans. But if the athletic meltdown actually occurs, would also be wonderful Podolski-back fell.
Is the motto on Geißbockheim: Poldi is taboo for the next few months. What matters is their own team. And be sure all the combined forces.
Daum is proceeding with great example. The successful coach are currently lucrative offers from the German talk-sizes (Kerner, Beckmann). He has rejected them all.
It focuses only on his team and throws himself into his work. His goal: Get 23 points. Then would land the upwardly mobile middle class team.
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Hans Meyer's shooting Figures

Mönchengladbach - sporting director Max Eberl brought it to the 2:4-swatter against Dortmund in a nutshell:
"We do not make it at the moment to close the Abwehrzentrum. It was like in the first round. We're going to easily conceded. "
The misery in Borussia back line has no end. In the first section of the season, "shooting gallery of the nation" (O-Ton Meyer) was poured into 35 clean sheets.
In preparation for kicks, they continue to do exactly there. In four games, the two keeper Bailly and Heimeroth had to fish the ball eleven times already on the net. Coach Hans Meyer: "Do not Let the error from the individual, it is very difficult for us."
Against Borussia it was the defender Callsen-Bracker and Brouwers, which looked at all four gates very old. But actually it does not matter who is playing in the back four.
The only constant in this season are the unspeakably many blunders. Meyer figures to make shooting so forth, waving them the sad club record out of the relegation season 98/99.
Whopping 79 times, it was then a beat behind FC goalkeeper Enke. 45 Goals are missing from the current team to exceed this mark. "It has become apparent that we have with the current cast are still major problems in the center, 'said Meyer.
 His hopes now rest solely on the three injured defenders. In addition to Small and Dante falls in the last test on Saturday against Mlada Boleslav probably Daems.
"He has gotten one Charley horse. It troubles me that now the second player, who plays a great role for me in the back four fails, "sighed Meyer.
Capture can not with his defense as the dress rehearsal. When you think of the striker in the first three rounds of re-opponent (Gomez, Ba, Pizarro) is, one will only be anxious and afraid ...

Hamilton and Massa: The Breakdown Master

Tokyo - They are separated by just five points, they fight with all means at the World Cup, and they make mistakes without end:
Allow me, Lewis Hamilton (23) and Felipe Massa (26), the margins champion in Formula 1 The day after the spin-drama on Fujiyama they're leaving again at one another. This time, verbally!
Only two races, and their World Cup Zoff escalates. Felipe came back aggressively on the track and hit me. I think that was so deliberately, as it can hardly be intentional, "Hamilton assumed his Ferrari rival him in the 2nd Have shot round. Bam! Intention, a tough accusation.
Massa countered: "He might look like. I say Lewis is a bad start, and then braked too late. That was too optimistic by Lewis, especially as regards the World Cup. "Dual-Bam!
Here are the error-King, who turned six times (in the rain of Silverstone!), The other, the world champion Kimi Räikkönen (28, took a chance since Sunday) at a speed of 80 in the pit lane into the back of good advice.
Ridiculous. So many errors, such as Hamilton and Massa went into this season, Schumacher did not happen in his five years at Ferrari title. The fuse has been laid for a new route controversy on Sunday when the Grand Prix of China (8 clock).
Shanghai? There was something! Hamilton (led by 17 points ahead of Raikkonen) stranded in the gravel trap the smallest of Formula 1 - and lost in the end.
Massa says with relish: "He has made a mistake under pressure, so it was good that I could catch up with two points. In two races is more to come. "
Two races, two fighting cocks as last year Hamilton and Fernando Alonso (27). The ex-colleague bitch and Fuji winner already pouring oil on the fire: "If I can help, then I will help Massa."
And once again wants to be a laughing third: Robert Kubica (23). The BMW-pole with his 2nd Place up to twelve points to Hamilton and seven herangerückt on Massa and senses a unique opportunity: "It is still a possibility."

Idbihi back to the Cologne 99ers?

Cologne - Cologne 99ers fans can look forward to: Perhaps one of their favorites turned back into the team!
According EXPRESS national information Yassin Idbihi of negotiating with the 99ers to a new contract. The 2.08-meter man was great in spite of injury woes to the top performers last season. At the Olympic preparation camp of the national team in late June, he tore the syndesmosis in the right foot, there was not a new contract from the 99ers so.
"Nevertheless, we are always kept in touch," says the 25-year-old who wants to play again in October. Then, perhaps with the 99ers: "Yes, we are in contact, but there are still a few things to clarify," confirmed the Idbihi EXPRESS.
Even 99ers sports director Stephan Baeck signaled: "Both sides are trying very hard to find a quick solution."
In EXPRESS the international talks exclusively about the current state of negotiations and his serious injury. The full interview in the click-box!