In the Bundesliga it didn’t quite get it, but in the second division it is outstanding: Simon Terodde from Schalke 04 has set the second division’s goal record. He is something like the Robert Lewandowski of the 2nd division. The Bayern star recently broke an “all time” goal record.
In the lower house of football, it is currently the biggest attraction, for FC Schalke the hope of being promoted again. Within a few weeks, newcomer Simon Terodde has risen to become a cult figure at the recently long-suffering Revierclub. Now the 33-year-old attacker is also guaranteed a place of honor in the second division annals.
It was the 77th minute in the home game against FC Ingolstadt on Sunday when Dominick Drexler passed the ball onto Terodde, who was completely free. He just had to insert the historic hit. With the goal to 3-0, the striker of the Knappen has drawn level with the previous record shooter Dieter Schatzschneider, who scored and scored for Hannover 96 and Fortuna Cologne from 1978 to 1987. 153 goals are now recorded for both – and there is little doubt that Terodde will set a new record over the course of the season.
Simon Terodde scores almost all Schalke goals
Still-record holder Schatzschneider can get over the loss of the 34-year-old record. “Simon is a good boy,” said the 63-year-old club legend from Hannover 96 in an NDR interview. With a smile he added: “Of course I hope that Schalke will be promoted. Not that he will play second division for another year, then he will have 200 goals. That is a record that will never be cracked.”
The transfer-free commitment of the former HSV professional Terodde this summer turned out to be a stroke of luck for the financially troubled Bundesliga relegated from Gelsenkirchen. An imposing eleven of the team’s 15 goals this season have gone to his account. The fact that there are only three other goalscorers besides Terodde with Marius Bülter (3), Dominick Drexler (1) and Thomas Ouwejan (1) gives coach Dimitrios Grammozis thoughtful: “It’s about the big picture. One Terodde is not enough. I wish me more goalscorers. “
Schalke legend recommends Terodde for Flick
Nevertheless, the coach would certainly not mind if Terodde became the top scorer in the second division for the fourth time after 2016 (for VfL Bochum), 2017 (for VfB Stuttgart) and 2019 (for 1.FC Cologne). He recently described the veteran ‘s great hunger for goals in almost poetic terms: “Simon needs the sound of the net.”
The former Schalke center forward Klaus Fischer – with 268 goals still number 3 on the all-time Bundesliga shooting list – recently even recommended Terodde for the national team. “That should be possible. At the Euro this year, eight quarter-finalists had a solid center forward in their regular eleven,” said the 1982 World Cup runner-up to the “Ruhr Nachrichten”. Fischer does not see the fact that the highly acclaimed scored his most goals in the second division and mostly struggled in the upper house of football as an obstacle: “If Simon had played in a top team in the Bundesliga, he would have scored because he needed good preparers “believes Fischer.
“We need Simon 100 percent”
Nevertheless, it is hard to imagine that national coach Hansi Flick will follow the recommendation. But Fischer’s proposal alone is an expression of the great esteem Terodde enjoys at Schalke. Born in Bocholt, just over 50 kilometers from Gelsenkirchen, the professional has internalized the club’s DNA from day one. “You can see that he feels very comfortable at Schalke. He has been with all of his heart, since the first conversation I had with him before he was signed,” said Grammozis.
Similar to the coach of the Royal Blues, sports director Peter Knäbel also hopes that Terodde’s goals pave the way for the traditional club from the Ruhrpott to return to the Bundesliga. Not least because of this, he has little to gain from Fischer’s advance: “We need Simon 100 percent here. I think that we have enough strikers in Germany who deserve to play in the national team.”
As dominant as Lewandowski in the Bundesliga
At the latest with the cracking of Dieter Schatzschneider’s age-old record, Terodde has become a kind of “Robert Lewandowski of the 2nd division”. The almost insatiable hunger for goals unites the two strikers as well as their accuracy – albeit on different levels. It was only last year that Bayern superstar Lewandowski broke an ancient record. He surpassed the goal record of 40 goals in a season that Gerd Müller had set in 1972 by one goal. Lewandowski still needs around 80 goals to wrest Müller from the Bundesliga’s all-time scoring record.
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