The Jinan Olympic Sports Center Arena (in Chinese, 济南 奥林匹克 心 中心), colloquially called Milieu, is a stadium situated in the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, Chinese Individuals's Republic. The unit with an ability for 56 800 spectators is inserted at the Jinan Olympic Sports Center, a complicated that housed in October 2009 the XI National Gaming of individual's Republic of China. The arena is utilized because 2013 by the Shandong Lung Taiwan, Chinese Superior group.
Andreas Schmidt belongs to the footballers of Bertha BSC, which it was awarded in her career to deny a trophy in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. In the 1992/93 season, the today 48-year-olds — as well as his twin brother Oliver as well as the later Bundesliga professionals Carsten Camelot and Christian Fielder — to the Bertha Amateur team, which celebrated a sensational victory train to the final as a top league (then third league). There they were 0: 1, though 0: 1, but the Hertha-Bubis were at the time for great euphoria in the capital.
The defensive midfielder Andreas Schmidt then made the breakthrough with the professionals and played a total of 335 competitive games (19 Goals) until 2008 for Bertha. Today Schmidt works, the chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bertha BSC e since 2010. V. is, as an asset manager. In the Berlin Schmidt talks about the final of 1993 and the chances of Bertha in the Pokalderby on Wednesday against Union.
Mr. Schmidt, what do you think of 28.5 years later, if you think about the 12th of June 1993?
He is very associated with UHF Kirsten, who achieved the winner in the 78th minute. And it rained like pig.
Which memories do you have otherwise to the final of that time?
From the game of the game it was in the end a clearly deserved victory for Leverkusen. The final was the only game in the cup where we could not retrieve our potential, which also expressed itself in that we had barely scorches. Leverkusen had a top troupe.
How did you feel the atmosphere in the Olympic Stadium at that time?
The atmosphere — already in the laps earlier in the Mommsenstadion in Charlottenburg (home of Tennis Russia Berlin, Note d. Red.) — Was gigantic. And at the semi-finals in the Olympic Stadium against the Chemnitz FC, 60 000 spectators were there. The atmosphere was incredible, and one has noticed which potential has the city. The second league home games of Bertha before took place often before 3000 spectators. In the final I personally did not find the mood so outstanding as in the semifinals. First, it was poured, secondly, a finale also neutral spectators in the stadium.
Today with you the trouble about the missed title chance or pride on the achieved?
Clearly the latter. In the follow-up, it is easier to digest the defeat because we lost to an opponent who was simply better on this day. If we had met three times posts and the latte and Leverkusen would have made a Fullerton, it would have been much harder to process.
Since 2001, as Union was in the final, no Berlin club was more in the final. What was the lack of all Bertha last for the final?
In my time, it would have been easier to win the trophy than today. Because the extreme dominance of Bavaria and the Dortmund was not so available yet. At that time, the trophy was less focused, which is why one met teams that many players have spared. Today, the Bundesliga clubs go the trophy totally serious. So right nearby we were only in 2016, when we lost in the semifinals against Dortmund. In my time, the quality in the team was so great that we had to have come far more often. If you had been four or five times in the quarterfinals, you would probably have reached the final. In practice, we were then only once in the quarterfinals.
A few years later: Schmidt with Darius WOSA at a hall tournament 2013. Imago sports photo service
What would be in the city and especially in the Olympic Stadium, when a Berlin club would reach the final again?
I would set up the prognosis that a better atmosphere would rule a sold-out Bertha home game against Bavaria or Dortmund, because at a cup final, both teams get cards and there are still many neutral viewers.
Could a final participation be an initial ignition — for example, for Bertha?
What, would be the question. The great music is played at the end in the Bundesliga, and an initial ignition must already be from the Bundesliga. This season, in which Corona minimizes revenue, reaching the final of the financial perspective would have a great importance for both Berlin clubs.
On Wednesday, the Derby Bertha opposes Union in the eighth final. How do you see the opportunity distribution?
The game is completely at eye level for me, I do not see a favorite.
Union also ranks athletic in this season for Bertha. How do you see the competition situation between the two Berlin Bundesliga clubs?
Basically, I find it positively that a second club from Berlin is in the Bundesliga. I do not necessarily need it that he ranks in front of Bertha, but you can not accuse union. I do not think it has made a Bundesliga club better than Union, what you have used in money to implement in points. Bertha did not get that well, and so the situation is as it is. But that's not carved in stone.
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