“Very, very difficult”
After changing: Ex-DFB goalkeeper fights with tears
Updated on 20.08.2025 – 3:20 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
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In the future, Kevin Trapp will play for Paris FC. To say goodbye to his longtime club Eintracht Frankfurt, the goalkeeper shows himself from his emotional side.
Kevin Trapp has said goodbye to Eintracht Frankfurt with moving words. The 35-year-old changes to the French first division promoted Paris FC.
“To make such a decision is actually very, very difficult. I don’t have to mention that.
In the past he had emphasized several times that “he would like to say goodbye to the club at the climax”. Now the right moment is to make the Eintracht Frankfurt chapter, he added – and fought with tears.
The goalkeeper signed a contract with Ligue-1 promoted Paris FC until 2028. In Paris, his fiance, the top model Izabel Goulart. According to agreed media reports, Eintracht Frankfurt receives a transfer fee of one million euros. Trapp promised to return to the club after his player career.
Trapp switched from 1st FC Kaiserslautern to Eintracht in 2012. In Frankfurt he developed into the tram goalkeeper in the Bundesliga before going to Paris Saint-Germain in 2015. For the 2018/2019 season, he initially returned to Frankfurt on a loan, a few later change followed. Trapp celebrated the profit of the Europa League three years ago as number one.
It is open whether the veteran would have remained number one in the coming season. Trapp should have delivered a duel with 22-year-old Brazilian Kauã Santos who worked on his comeback after a cruciate ligament tear.
Now Frankfurt goes into the season with a new goalkeeper: Michael Zetterer comes from Werder Bremen and signs a contract until 2028. He will share the competition with chewing.