34-year-old goal giant to FCB?
Olaf Thon sees Terodde at least at Flick
5/10/2022 7:52 am
Schalke 04 is back in the top flight after a year in the 2nd Bundesliga. The Royal Blues won a dramatic game against FC St. Pauli on Saturday and can even celebrate with their own fans. Two days later, not everyone seems to be up to speed.
They’re still not that sober at Schalke 04. After the dramatic promotion to the Bundesliga with the subsequent celebrations until at least the morning hours of Sunday – and maybe well beyond that – a representative of the club from Gelsenkirchen is now planning to march through to the top of the world. If not for the entire club, then at least for a selected and particularly deserving player.
Simon Terodde is the man who is supposed to succeed in this march to the top. He is 34 years old. And is something like a folk hero at Schalke. deservedly. With his 29 goals, he played a key role in the direct resurgence of the Ruhrpott giants. With a total of 171 second division goals, he has long been playing in his own second division world. He is someone who is committed to bringing fallen traditional clubs back on track. He’s already done that at 1. FC Köln and VfB Stuttgart and of course not at Hamburger SV, this Hanseatic heavyweight who fights for a return to the first division year after year and has always failed so far. Just like in the 2020/2021 season with Terodde.
Via Dortmund or Bavaria to Qatar
How can you reward someone like Terodde? With a permanent place in the national football team! They urgently need a striker before the World Cup in Qatar. At least when it comes to Schalke club icon Olaf Thon. “He has shown with his many goals in the 2nd division that he is suitable for the first division. Hansi Flick should definitely think about whether Simon Terodde is going to the World Cup. I don’t see such a player in Germany far and wide,” said Thon, who after all, the experience of a world title (1990) can bring in on Monday at Sport1.
The hiker and guarantor of promotion has always been inconspicuous in his few appearances in the Bundesliga upper house. Terodde played a total of 58 games there for 1. FC Köln and VfB Stuttgart, scoring only ten goals. But now everything works.
Because not only Olaf Thon sees Terodde in the top of the world, but also the former Bundesliga professional Maik Franz, who earned his nickname “Iron-Maik” through tough performances in central defense and knows how a striker ticks. And watched the transfer market very closely. At BVB, top striker Erling Haaland is about to leave and Robert Lewandowski could leave Bayern Munich after many years. The replacement? Simon Terodde, says Maik Franz. Of course.
“Simon is a phenomenon, he knows how to score goals. I think he would also score over 20 goals this season at Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund,” explained “Iron-Maik” in the ran Bundesliga web show. It is still unclear whether he was able to trigger a bet between the two best German teams. But the scouts should be alarmed and Hansi Flick will call Terodde soon. Certainly.