Viktoria Köln is hoping for a football miracle in the DFB Cup against the great FC Bayern on Wednesday. However, the only goalscorer in the club’s history against Bayern Munich doesn’t really believe in it.
The match between Viktoria Cologne and FC Bayern Munich in the first round of the DFB Cup on Wednesday evening (8.46 p.m. live on Erste) is the biggest game in the club’s history for Viktoria. The game, which will take place in the RheinEnergie Stadium, will also be a very special one for the captain of the Viktoria. Marcel Risse is returning to his old place of work, where he played for 1. FC Köln from 2013 to 2020.
Risse goes into the cup fight with a glimmer of hope: “If Bayern don’t have a great day and we have a great day, then something could work. There are always stories that football writes. Of course we’re lurking for them,” says Risse of the ARD sports show .
Bernhard Ochmann made sure of such a story – 43 years ago. Ochmann can still see the puzzled faces of Rummenigge, Breitner and Hoeneß. “I hit the ball, the boys didn’t stand a chance! I’ll never forget that,” says the former striker Victoria Cologne – the only goalscorer in the club’s history against Bayern Munich.
Viktoria against Bayern in front of 50,000 spectators
That was in 1979, a 3-1 draw in the second round of the DFB Cup – 43 years later, the third division team is euphorically gearing up for their game of the century. The phones are glowing, the office has been almost overrun: the RheinEnergie Stadium of the big neighbor 1. FC Köln will be sold out on Wednesday. “It’s the biggest game in the club’s history against one of the best teams in the world,” said sporting director Franz Wunderlich.
Victoria with the “Pope in his pocket”
With Bernhard Ochmann as a nimble left winger 43 years ago, everything was two sizes smaller. 9200 spectators came to the Höhenberg sports park. His 1: 2 in the 62nd minute, a solid shot from twelve meters, was as nice as it was painful: “Paul Breitner sent me flying on the outside line as a penalty,” he tells SID.
Now they are coming back, the Super Bayern. Not with Rummenigge, Hoeneß, Augenthaler, but with Neuer, Müller and Mane. “They’ll make at least five, I think. But I wish Viktoria the best of luck.”
The third division team can use the “Pope in the pocket”, as Franz Wunderlich calls it: “For almost everyone it’s the game of their life, if you’re not looking forward to it, nobody can help you. Bayern, the sold-out stadium, it There is nothing nicer to be able to play a game under such conditions.”
Models Weinheim, Magdeburg and Kiel
The only chance to get out of the affair well lies in the impossibility of the task. “If we’re honest, we don’t have a chance, but that’s the chance,” says Wunderlich in an interview with the ARD sports show.
But: Weinheim, Vestenbergsgreuth, Magdeburg and Kiel have shown that Bayern can be knocked out of the cup even with significantly inferior resources. Compared to their championship series, only a narrow five cup wins have gone to Munich in the past ten years. Bernhard Ochmann will not be in the stadium this time. “I’d like to go, but it’s sold out,” he says. “I enjoy it in front of the TV.” He has to see if one hits “that things” fully.
