Uli Stein is a legend in Hamburg SV and Eintracht Frankfurt. For the Eintracht, the former National Torwart completed 224 games in the Bundesliga, for the Hanseate, the 67-year-old wore the case in the upper house 228 times. With the Hamburg Frankfurts club, stone also celebrated its greatest success when he won the European Cup in 1983.
“Always, when a winner rips the Henkelpott, of course, I think back to my biggest moment: our triumph with the HSV 1983. At that time, the Europapokal was a real competition of the Champions, just the master. That today it is a final between the fourth from here And give the third from there, I never quite tracked, “etched the HSV and Eintracht icon in his column for the trade magazine” Kicker “.
Elven times was allowed Uli Stein, who also won the German Championship and the DFB Cup twice, in the European Cup of the national master Ran, also played over 40 times in other European club competitions.
Champions League: Uli Stein from Mode
Today, in the former National Torwart, the “frustration over the Champions League”: “In contrast to the same K.-O. process from the first round, it is now endlessly played in groups for so long until the richest are back. And they are then – see PSG – still insulted if they lose… I used to come up with Europacup evenings. Today I no longer judge my time after the collapsed schedule of the so-called royal class. The enthusiasm for something special is easy. Pity.”
The criticism of stone is not completely unjustified, with Manchester City, the English Champion last year in the final of the royal class, but Champions League winner became the FC Chelsea with coach Thomas Tuchel. The blues were only fourth in the 2019/20 season in the Premier League, then able to secure the title.