On Tuesday evening, the Bielefeld Alm is again a very special game in the house when the local Arminia competes against Werder Bremen in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. Ex-armine Artur Wichniarek has now revealed what makes the DSC stadium so special.
Artur Wichniarek played 216 games in the Arminia Bielefeld jersey, scored a total of 88 goals for the DSC between 1999 and 2003 and 2006 and 2009. He cheered many of his goals on the Bielefeld Alm, the stadium, on the magic of which Arminia also on Tuesday evening in the DFB Cup quarter-finals against SV Werder Bremen (8:45 p.m. in sport.de-Live ticker) hopes as a “huge advantage”.
In this “super hot stadium”, Wichniarek sees the plus as plus the ranks that are very close to the field, as he emphasized in conversation with the “Sportbuzzer”.
“On the alpine pasture you smell the beer that people drink, and the sausage they eat,” the 47-year-old recalled of times.
“However, this also has disadvantages for footballers,” he added.
The reason: “If you are hungry, it’s not easy. You eat about three and a half hours before kick -off so that you have practically an empty stomach during the game. And when you come to the stadium, and everywhere it smells of beer and sausage – on it – You have to get used to the game in the first quarter of the game, “said Wichniarek.
He always motivated him that the spectators are so close. “If it doesn’t work and the fans push you, you get that much more in Bielefeld” than elsewhere, emphasized the Pole, who also played for Hertha BSC and moved to the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
Wichniarek: For Arminia, “everything is possible”
“If Hertha BSC had a normal football stadium, they would get at least twelve points per season. In the Olympic Stadium, the distance to the fans has a different feeling than in Bielefeld,” said the striker.
The Arminia insider therefore feels good for the game against the green-whites.
“It’s great that the game is in Bielefeld, not in Bremen. Everything is possible. We always looked good against Werder in my time. Well, once we got a 1:8 swatter, but otherwise the games were always I almost always hit Werder.