The best that Ralf Sievers (left, with Frank Schulz) has experienced in his footballing career, which is full of highlights: he celebrates exuberantly winning the DFB Cup in 1987/88 after winning the 1-0 final over VfL Bochum in the Berlin Olympic Stadium .
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Long live the soccer cup! The AZ goes on a journey through time and lets the Uelzen Cup history (s) roll. Today: Ralf and Jörg Sievers – a brother couple from Eddelstorf wins the DFB Cup.
Uelzen / District – “It’s like winning the lottery,” says Jörg Sievers. The fact that he surprisingly won the DFB Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach 29 years ago as the goalkeeper of the second division Hannover 96 is like a six with a super number. But the fact that he is following in the footsteps of his older brother Ralf, who triumphed as a cup winner with Eintracht Frankfurt in 1988, blows every jackpot.
“Both from Eddelstorf, a place with 200 inhabitants”, Jörg Sievers is still amazed at the fraternal coup. “Those were always our role models who showed us that you can make it up,” pays tribute to Malte Meyer. The 22-year-old is also an Eddelstorf sky striker and currently plays in the regional league for SK Hansa from Lüneburg.
Second division Hannover 96 is sensationally the DFB Cup winner 1991/92! Goalkeeper Jörg Sievers presents the cup to the fans on Trammplatz.
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In five days it will be that time again: DFB Cup final. However, the final on Ascension Day between RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund cannot be compared with the football festivals of the Eddelstorf gladiators. Their appearances in the Berlin Olympic Stadium were sold out with 76,000 fans. This time, like last year, there will be a yawning emptiness in the stands. Corona!
“The players can deal with this situation, which is not new to them, they do their job. When you have a final in mind, you are awake, ”describes Hanover’s cult keeper Sievers in an interview with AZ. He and his team were carried by the mood and fans in the 1991/92 cup season. Such an “unbelievable experience” is denied to the main actors in pandemic times.
Ralf Sievers in the cup final: “The whole city was in an uproar”
“It would be a disaster for me! As a player, there is no anticipation at all, ”Ralf Sievers regrets the silent finalists. When he met VfL Bochum with Frankfurter Eintracht in the ’88 showdown, “the whole city was in an uproar”. After the 1-0 victory with a goal from Lajos Detari (81st), the laps of honor in front of the fans follow, followed by the triumphant reception at the Frankfurt Römer the next day.
The final against Bochum is close: Frankfurt’s Ralf Sievers (left) against Uwe Leifeld.
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Already after the surprising 1-0 semi-final victory in Bremen, Ralf Sievers began to tingle in the final. “You can’t get that out of your head. You don’t want to get injured under any circumstances, but you have to continue to play well in the league so as not to be thrown out of the team in the final. ”Sievers is always placed in midfield with coach Karlheinz Feldkamp. Even in the endgame.
The cup fever rises with Ralf Sievers every season as surely as FC Bayern becomes German champions. Then he looks particularly at his ex-clubs. Most recently, he was at the final in Berlin in 2018, when his Frankfurters defeated Bayern 3-1. Eintracht had invited their old cup heroes.
Sievers, Sievers & Co .: pairs of brothers celebrate victory in the DFB Cup
Ralf and Jörg Sievers (Frankfurt / Hanover) join a list of prominent pairs of brothers who have won the DFB Cup, such as Jerome and Kevin-Prince Boateng (Bavaria / Frankfurt), Sven and Lars Bender (Dortmund), Uli and Dieter Hoeneß (Bavaria / Stuttgart), Rüdiger and Volker Abramczik (Schalke), Thiago and Rafinha Alcántara (Bavaria), Klaus and Thomas Allofs (Düsseldorf, Cologne, Werder / Düsseldorf), Friedhelm and Wolfgang Funkel (Bayer 05 Uerdingen), Karl-Heinz and Michael Rummenigge (Bavaria).
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Sievers played 232 games between 1982 and 1991 in the Bundesliga for the Adler and FC St. Pauli and scored ten goals. After the cup gala on May 28, 1988, the U20 world champion from 1981 won the bronze medal with the German team at the Olympic Games in Seoul a few weeks later and marked the only two European Cups for the Frankfurt team in the round of 16 of the European Cup Winners’ Cup against Sakaryaspor. Goals of his career. “It was all nice. But the DFB Cup final was the best of all, ”enthuses the 59-year-old and ex-coach of Teutonia Uelzen (2011 to 2013) about the atmosphere and the really big emotions.
Penalty killer Jörg Sievers makes himself immortal in sport in Hanover
In Jörg Sievers’ life the memory of the cup coup, which was extreme for all of Hanover, is often present. “Not every day, but before every final and every important 96 game,” says the 55-year-old. All the more so when the “Reds” fought against Bremen in December last year for a place in the Cup round of 16 (0-3). Because against Werder on April 8, 1992, the goalkeeper once again made club history.
A few months before leaving after 30 years at Hannover 96, Jörg Sievers will be guesting with the “Reds” at Uelzener Fischerhof in June 2019. The cult keeper and highly valued goalkeeping coach shoots Ron-Robert Zieler and Philipp Tschauner warm. The second division is playing a test match against Lüneburg SK (3-2).
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In the penalty shoot-out, keeper Sievers converts the last ball for 96 and then parries against Marco Bode. Sensational victory! In the final against Mönchengladbach he defused two balls on penalties and after the 6: 5 (1: 1, 0: 0) hit in the tinsel rain of Berlin.
Brilliant act in the final against Mönchengladbach: Jörg Sievers saves Holger Fach’s penalty.
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These two games, in which he almost single-handedly grabbed the club’s last big title, and a third of a total of 384 games in 14 seasons for 96 make the Eddelstorfer immortal. Because six years later he again kills two penalties in the second division promotion drama against TeBe Berlin. This resurgence and the leap into the Bundesliga in 2003 with the cup triumph are the greatest moments of his career, says Jörg Sievers.
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