Despite high-flying in the 3. Liga, SV Wehen Wiesbaden aren’t managing to draw in flocks of fans with an average attendance just over 2000. However, when the team face five-time DFB-Pokal champions FC Schalke 04 on Tuesday night in the Brita-Arena in the second round of the competition, everyone wants to be there. Only a few hours after general sale, all 11,174 tickets sold out. It’s the first time the stadium has been sold out since March 2009 when SV Wehen Wiesbaden took on 1. FSV Mainz 05 in a 2. Bundesliga match.
“It’s an amazing draw for us to go up against one of Germany’s largest and most renowned clubs in the DFB-Pokal”, said SVWW president, Markus Hankammer to the Wiesbadener Kurier. “We look forward to seeing a sold out Brita-Arena and a good game in which we ask a lot of Schalke.”
Mintzel: “What do we have to lose?”
For Wehen’s old hand, Alf Mintzel, the worry is for him that his own son will have his fingers crossed for both teams when Wehen take on Schalke. The 35-year-old said: “My son is a member of Schalke but he has at least understood that he’ll support his dad in this game. I told him that, if he goes to the Brita-Arena in a Schalke shirt, he shouldn’t come home!” Mintzel is returning from injury but had the following to say on the cup fixture: “In all honesty, what do we have to lose? We could have the game of our lives, we are able to cause an upset.”
SV Wehen Wiesbaden came close to causing an upset in the 2008/2009 version of the DFB-Pokal as they lost 2-1 to Hamburger SV. In the first round, SV Wehen Wiesbaden eliminated second division Erzgebirge Aue with a 2-0 win which led to the end of Aue head coach Thomas Letsch’s tenure. Schalke toiled to a 2-0 win against BFC Dynamo.
Despite high-flying in the 3. Liga, SV Wehen Wiesbaden aren’t managing to draw in flocks of fans with an average attendance just over 2000. However, when the team face five-time DFB-Pokal champions FC Schalke 04 on Tuesday night in the Brita-Arena in the second round of the competition, everyone wants to be there. Only a few hours after general sale, all 11,174 tickets sold out. It’s the first time the stadium has been sold out since March 2009 when SV Wehen Wiesbaden took on 1. FSV Mainz 05 in a 2. Bundesliga match.
“It’s an amazing draw for us to go up against one of Germany’s largest and most renowned clubs in the DFB-Pokal”, said SVWW president, Markus Hankammer to the Wiesbadener Kurier. “We look forward to seeing a sold out Brita-Arena and a good game in which we ask a lot of Schalke.”
Mintzel: “What do we have to lose?”
For Wehen’s old hand, Alf Mintzel, the worry is for him that his own son will have his fingers crossed for both teams when Wehen take on Schalke. The 35-year-old said: “My son is a member of Schalke but he has at least understood that he’ll support his dad in this game. I told him that, if he goes to the Brita-Arena in a Schalke shirt, he shouldn’t come home!” Mintzel is returning from injury but had the following to say on the cup fixture: “In all honesty, what do we have to lose? We could have the game of our lives, we are able to cause an upset.”
SV Wehen Wiesbaden came close to causing an upset in the 2008/2009 version of the DFB-Pokal as they lost 2-1 to Hamburger SV. In the first round, SV Wehen Wiesbaden eliminated second division Erzgebirge Aue with a 2-0 win which led to the end of Aue head coach Thomas Letsch’s tenure. Schalke toiled to a 2-0 win against BFC Dynamo.
