Where, if not at FC Schalke 04, is nostalgia a Good, you can’t even rate high enough. The Ruhr area club, is infinitely rich in stories that tell of the numerous followers of the club and in detail. So it is no wonder that now and again a New one with the scarf core. To be exact, a Mini-New. This nickname given by the Fans, Alexander Nübel. This is probably mainly due to the fact that Manuel Neuer enjoys the majority of the followers still have a good reputation. And as the 22-year-old Nübel is similarly adept with his hands and feet as the Schalke goalkeeper-Original plays since 2011 for FC Bayern Munich, the longing for a successor.

A decision from the sporting grounds

Nübel has, of course, still a long way from not the priority and awareness of the real new. And yet he is currently, at least in the Schalke environment, everyone is talking about. Nübel has ousted captain Ralf Fährmann at the beginning of the second round out of the gate. Those ferryman, who had acted as the last remaining symbol of integration in a in the past three years, the contour of loose become Schalke team.

The 2:1 against VfL Wolfsburg stand Nübel in the gate, and the ferryman was forced to watch from the substitutes ‘ bench. “It was a decision for sporting reasons,” said Domenico Tedesco. “The last few days and nights were for me and the team of trainers is not easy, because the communication of this decision was imminent,” explained the coach of Schalke his decision, he knew that it would entail a lot of fuel. For the fans of the club, it has always been important, not only good results on the lawn to witness. This particular Schalke professionals like Stan Libuda, Gerald Asamoah, or the ferryman to serve across the generations, often as home-building, and sprayed with your Nahbarkeit, as well as their intense identification with the club to be the Aura, part of a big family.

Nübel shows no nervousness

Tedesco, however, this important property from hidden Fährmanns and assessed, especially the physical and not the social benefits of his goalkeeper. And these were similar to those of the team in the preliminaries, errors and flighty. They satisfied a lot of to rarely the demands of the club. Nübel, however, had in three bundeslig games and two Champions League Games in the first half of the season – after an injury Fährmanns – the opportunity to show that he could be the future of the club. And it was downright amazing what self-confidence and sovereignty, he blocked shots on goal and as the play of the goalkeeper was presented, which seemed to know no nervousness.

So, once Manuel Neuer to the Public. The then 20-year-old of New of former Coach Mirko Slomka had made in November 2006 for the then also not fully convincing stem goalkeeper Frank Rost, surprisingly, between the Schalke posts. This generation paid off once: New, after all, had more Talent than rust and developed in Gelsenkirchen as the best goalkeeper in the world.

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Whether the differences between Nübel and the ferryman are also so large, it will need to demonstrate to the Newcomer, has indicated he will be great goalkeeper Repertoire several times already. With his decision, Tedesco has shown courage, even if he feared the reaction of the person Concerned, apparently. As once rust its bad news – at least publicly – right to left took, was also the ferryman unimpressed. It is the third integrative Schalke ’victim’, the Tedesco, however, is already behind. After the Coach, Ex-captain Benedikt Höwedes pretty cool clearly did not want to do that, he counts on him, and this then had to learn last summer after Moscow vanished and, most recently, Naldo, such as it is, if the coach believes in the Strengths of the Individual. The ’Papa’, as Naldo of his teammates was called, now plays at AS Monaco. The lack of understanding about the Transfer was great in Schalke environment. Frank Rost moved in the summer of 2007 year, by the way to Hamburger SV. Ralf Fährmann has only once wordlessly on the bench, and had to press after the game his tears.