Thursday, April 28, 2011

Schweinsteiger and Co.: For the little brother is only the sausage stand

When tens of thousands of your last name in the stadium calling, then you have it. Christoph Trochowski knows how it sounds. In the arena of Hamburger SV, he always gets goose bumps when the announcer reads the list and the audience yells, "Trochoooooowski. However, it is then not on the field, but sits as a spectator in the stands.

Christoph Trochowski, 20-year-old midfielder at SC Victoria Hamburg in the league (5th Division), is the little brother of Piotr Trochowski, 26 and national player at HSV. His brother made millions and, after a victory in the VIP room congratulations from business leaders and actors. Christoph Trochowski other hand strolls after a game a few hundred people on the way to the car past the sausage stand where viewers often ask him for autographs and jerseys from his brother.

One name, two worlds. He also wants to create a professional, but it's hard. "I'm often compared with my brother. And will always be in his shadow, "says Christopher. The family as a burden. With this problem, some players in professional football are struggling. Previously, the siblings played in the Bundesliga: Uli Hoeness (Bayern Munich) in the hit 70's played on his brother Dieter (VfB Stuttgart), Karl-Heinz and Michael Rummenigge in the 80s for Bayern, at the same time be delivered Klaus Allofs ( Werder Bremen), Thomas Allofs (Fortuna Dusseldorf) fights on the field.

Today it creates from the soccer-mad families usually only one at a top club, the brother earned his money in a lower league. Coincidence? "The success of the brother can inspire, but also his frustration," says Professor Jürgen Beckmann, sports psychologist at the University of Munich.

He has worked with various professional teams and sibling pairs from the competitive sport. "For some siblings, the comparison was all very distinct. The feeling that the brother will always be better than you do, we try to solve in our work with athletes, as we move personal goals and strengths of the person in the foreground.

"Easier said than done. Malte Metzelder, 28, plays for FC Ingolstadt in the second division. His brother Christopher, 30, with the German national team at the 2006 World Cup provided for the summer fairy tale, and three years at the biggest club in the world, Real Madrid, played. He has just moved with FC Schalke 04 in the semifinals of the Champions League.

He once said that it would for his brother twice as hard to establish themselves in the Bundesliga. In fact, Malte Metzelder has not made it. Together with Christoph he was until 2007 under contract with Borussia Dortmund, but completed only nine games for the pros. He then played in the reserve team, then for the Regional Club VfR Aachen and now in Ingolstadt.

"A strike my last name was before," says Malte Metzelder. On the contrary: "If the brother is international, the expectations are naturally high." The coach of that of the other players to the fans. Envy is still never come up. Their relationship was very good, call the siblings regularly.

"In difficult times you can understand what the other feels." Since there was then building up words. Together they analyze the games of others. Recently completed their clubs in the same place in Turkey, the training camp, their day they spent together. "Overall, I'm getting my own way." Ingolstadt For it is about the class whereabouts.

Relegation battle in the second division, this is hard work, the dream of big clubs you dream somewhere else. Malte Metzelder shall therefore prior to the time after the career. He studied sports management. The fact that other professions bring fun and success, his two oldest of the four brothers live before Metzelder: Stephan, 33, played volleyball at the second division club USC Munster and is now working as a doctor in the University Hospital of Marburg.

Sebastian, 31, used to run performance-based fencing and is now anesthesiologist in Aachen. "In the team, I am considered as another player." Tobias Schweinsteiger, 28, has developed from the constant comparisons with his famous brother Bastian Bayern Munich a business model. "Schweini II" call him fans and media, and consequently is the web address of its online store www.

schweini2. de. Sold there, the midfielder from third division club Kickers clothing imprinted with the nickname and autograph cards. "At first I did not gefielt the nickname. But over time he has become a kind of trademark, "says Tobias Schweinsteiger. The constant comparisons, he is just as sorry as Christoph Trochowski and Malte Metzelder.

His brother was simply more talented than he. It was glad that the newspapers did not report every day about him. The dream of the Bundesliga, he no longer dreams. Financially, he gets along well with a non-league salary. "I have my own life and am satisfied." He has to be trained in the police and later completed a sports management distance learning.

That impresses even the most famous brother. "We have a very good relationship," said Bastian Schweinsteiger and reported that he is right before their games on Saturday afternoons always the result of the Regensburg Bayern Munich can submit press office. "If Tobi has made a goal, I am the enormous", said the national team.

"The fact that he is so often associated with me, so he comes to all this and more. Envy, "said Bastian Schweinsteiger," I felt with him before. "

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