Wednesday, June 2, 2010
FC flirts with Odonkor
Cologne / Bielefeld - Breathe in East Westphalia. David Odonkor currently vacationing with his wife Suzanne and daughter Adriana (7 months) in the old home in Bielefeld.
The Ex-Dortmunder is not only to relax there. Odonkor, next to the old and new Cologne Lukas Podolski one of the heroes of the summer fairytale for the 2006 World Cup is looking for a new club. And he could have found: The FC flirts with the swift Rechtsfuß!
What is clear is Odonkor Betis leaves despite contract until 2011. His goal is to return to the Bundesliga. For the 25-year-old was in Spain never happy. fetched for € 6 million, he often stale on the bench again and again threw him back injury. Then came the descent - now he can go.
However, it costs no small transfer fee. Nearly two million euros to the Spaniards for the former darling of the German fans haben.Odonkor, the mentality of never getting on with the Spanish and the language never learned, "I will leave Betis and want to go back to the Bundesliga. The coach has not been built in Seville on me. Although I was fit, I'm much too little. "
Now he wants to take the restart - and toying with a move to Cologne. "Of course, the FC would be a great club for me. Manager Michael Meier, I still know from Dortmund. "
FC Odonkor was offered, and Management Bureau discussed a commitment - but Christoph Daum locked himself against an obligation.
Daum is now gone - and the cards are shuffled. Now again Odonkor hopes, will also have an alternative: Hannover 96 will also require the ex-international, who is on national coach Joachim Loew get out of focus, obviously.
One would enjoy the visit to the obligation: Lukas Podolski has been a good year with "Odo" friends. "This would fit well. Poldi is a buddy of mine. And in Cologne, I had made my first international goal! Cologne - that would be nice, "said Odonkor.
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