1. FC Saarbrücken’s Marcel Gaus was almost retired from football

Saarbrücken’s cup hero

Marcel Gaus was almost retired from football – after 1. FC Saarbrücken’s coup against FC Bayern, the 34-year-old winger is suddenly a cup hero. “This time last year, I was at home for six months and didn’t have a club,” said Gaus after his late winning goal to make the third division team 2-1 (1-1) against the record DFB Cup winners from Munich. “Today I’m standing here and together with the boys I’ve achieved what very, very few teams achieve.”

Gaus shot the Saarland team into the third round with his goal in the 6th minute of stoppage time – for the veteran it was his fourth goal in 30 games for the FCS. The former professional from Fortuna Düsseldorf and 1. FC Kaiserslautern was unemployed after his contract with FC Ingolstadt expired in 2022 and was brought in by Saarbrücken at the beginning of this year.

“I think it was a game for the history books for everyone involved,” said Gaus, who clearly noted that before the game the club and the fans remembered the legendary 6-1 win by the FCS against Bayern in 1976/77 Bundesliga, which is still the biggest victory for the FCS in the German football upper house: “Of course these are games that people talk about decades later. I think today was also a game where the club got a media reach that is not an everyday occurrence because it will be everywhere tomorrow.”

The fact that Gaus, of all people, duped Bayern also said a lot about the German champions’ weaknesses in front of 16,000 in the madhouse Ludwigsparkstadion. “I’m already of a certain age, so you have to see which sprints you can pull off,” said the veteran, explaining the decisive counterattack situation. “In that case, I saw that something could happen because we were a few more ahead than Bayern.” What happened after that was just the following: “Pure emotional chaos, explosion right in front of our corner. The boys all ran onto the pitch and I could hardly breathe.”

With FC Bayern and Saarbrücken, the world’s most famous club and the club ranked 37th in this respect met in this cup season. While the Munich squad is worth 948.15 million euros, the FCS is worth 6.58 million euros.

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