Eintracht Frankfurt: Kevin Trapp on PSG – rival “only wished bad”

Will continue beyond 2024

“I was lucky not to have had a bad person in the goalkeeper team,” said international Kevin Trapp in the podcast “Soccer meets DAZN‘ back to his previous career. The 31-year-old goalkeeper from Eintracht Frankfurt also admitted that he did not only have the best experiences, referring to his time at the top French club Paris Saint-Germain.

Signed by the SGE for 9.5 million euros, Trapp immediately conquered the regular place at PSG in 2015. Previously, Salvatore Sirigu (35) had kept the goal for four seasons. The situation, characterized by great competition, was “therefore a bit tense”.

“When you know you have someone behind you who only wishes you bad things, it also makes the atmosphere in the goalkeeping team uncomfortable. That shouldn’t necessarily be the case,” said Trapp. As a person, however, his adversary at the time, Sirigu from Italy, was “top”.

Trapp also talked about “three or four” goalkeeper coaches with different nationalities, “each of whom had a different way of training”. He had already heard back then that “German goalkeepers have a different way of going one-on-one than French or Italian goalkeepers,” he explained. While Germans would try to “go into the block and make themselves as big as possible”, Italians, for example, would “mostly slide with their arms first”.

He tried to adapt in training, “but from a certain point there are things that you can no longer change with a goalkeeper,” admitted Trapp, who for the 2017/18 season was the number one PSG homegrown player Alphonse Areola (28) lost. A year later, the Saarland native returned to Eintracht Frankfurt.

After the return of PSG: Trapp at Eintracht Frankfurt not yet a “complete goalkeeper”

Since then, Trapp has been the undisputed number one for Hessen. For the DFB-Elf he was at the 2018 World Cup and the EM 2020, but was not used in either case. Even at the age of 31, the Eintracht keeper does not see himself as a “complete goalkeeper”. He has improved in the athletic field and now runs five kilometers per game, according to Trapp. Even in one-on-one he found his old strength again.

Trapp is now being trained by his former teammate Jan Zimmermann. It is a “special relationship” between the two, emphasized Trapp, they also exchange information about private things: “Jan’s is a good mix. Although he is very young, he is very ambitious and ambitious and thinks a lot every day about how he can build up the training and improve us.

Trapp is an indispensable part of the Eintracht team, for which he has completed a total of 239 missions to date. His contract runs for two and a half years. “At the moment I don’t have in mind to stop in 2024,” announced Trapp, who also indicated that he could imagine ending his career in Frankfurt.

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