On the football field, there are not only kings like Messi and Maradona, but also not only Ronaldo, Levan and Mbappe. Even in the sub-leagues, there are big stars dedicated to this stage.
When Championship Mitrovic broke the all-time record with 41 goals in 42 games, it became a beautiful talk to take Fulham into the Premier League. In the Bundesliga arena, there is also an even more terrifying "two-dimensional divine front". Schalke 04's 34-year-old veteran Trood is about to shoot his fourth double Bundesliga Golden Boot, while he also broke the Bundesliga record for goals, becoming the "Levan" of the platform.
01. Late-blooming centre-forward: 27 years old to make a name for himself in Bundesliga
Born on 2 March 1988, German centre-forward Trod made his debut in the Duisburg academy. From the 2008-09 season to the Bundesliga, he never thought that this was the stage for his life.
Even in his early years, his performance in the Bundesliga was not outstanding. It wasn't until the 2014-15 season that the 27-year-old scored 16 goals in a single season, ranking second on the top scorer list and starting to gain more attention.
A year later, the 28-year-old Trod exploded in Bochum, scoring 25 goals to shoot the first Bundesliga Golden Boot of his career.
In the 2016-17 season, he scored another 25 goals and won the Bundesliga Golden Boot, which helped Stuttgart win the league title, and at the age of 29, he became a bundesliga player for the first time in his career (as early as the age of 22, he played five Bundesliga games for Cologne as a second-team player).
However, after entering the Bundesliga, Trod scored only two goals in his first 15 games, and after the team signed Gomez, he could only choose to transfer to Cologne in the bundesliga in the winter window.
Despite scoring five goals in the last 15 games, the team's relegation result brought Troed back to the Bundesliga stage he was familiar with.
Compared to the big fights in the Bundesliga, Trod played a total of 53 games in the Bundesliga, scoring only 10 goals.
So much so that in the 2018-19 season, when the German national team, which had just experienced a fiasco in the World Cup, searched for a sharp edge, Trood was once repeatedly mentioned by the media, but he himself was very calm: "I don't want to talk about this topic, I have a sound evaluation system for myself." ”
02. "Two-Dimensional Ball King"! It is about to shoot the 4th double Bundesliga Golden Boot
Since the 2014-15 season, Trod has scored 16 or more goals in a single season in the Bundesliga in the past seven seasons.
During this period, the big centre-forward scored three league golden boots and helped Cologne and Stuttgart two Bundesliga titles.
In the 2018-19 season, after scoring his career-high 29 goals in a single season and a third double of Bundesliga Golden Boots, the spirited Trood stepped onto the Bundesliga for the third time.
Unfortunately, after scoring 3 goals in the first 9 games, he entered a state of no return, so in the summer he chose to return to the Bundesliga and join Hamburg.
During his three years at Hamburg, Trod scored a considerable number of goals every year, and he never lived up to the team's expectations, but Hamburg let him down.
For 3 consecutive years in an incredible way in the final stages of free fall, just right to stop at the 4th place in the league where the promotion failed, it is really laughable.
Last summer, when Germany's veteran Schalke 04 was relegated, they selected the 33-year-old Trod as the cornerstone of the team's "rebuilding".
Trod, who focused on grabbing points in front of the goal, just came here and instantly became the big star of the team. Scoring one goal in the first round of the Bundesliga and scoring twice in the second round, he became the second player in bundesliga history to represent six different clubs.
Although the league has two rounds to go before it ends, Trod, who scored 27 goals, is already seven goals ahead of second-place Dukesch, and only one of his many goals has come from penalties.
Just one step away from his 4th Bundesliga Golden Boot, Trod is a veritable "two-dimensional ball king"!
03. He is the "Levan of bundesliga": breaking the record of the all-time top scorer king
Before the start of the season, Trood's goal was not only to lead Schalke 04 back to the Bundesliga, but also to become the all-time top scorer of the Bundesliga, because he was only 6 goals away from the original "king" Schatz Schneider.
So Trod talked about it last summer: "On the day I ended my career, I was able to win the Bundesliga
In the hearts of countless Bundes league fans, DeRoth is the Levan of this platform. Last season, Levan overtook "Mr. Back hook" Klaus Fischer to become the second-highest scorer in Bundesliga history, while also breaking Gad Müller's single-season scoring record.
Similarly, Trod did this great thing in the Bundesliga. In November of last year, he scored his 154th goal in the Bundesliga, breaking the long-standing Bundesliga goal record.
In an interview with Kicker magazine, the 64-year-old record holder, Shaz Schneider, said: "I like to be the all-time top scorer in the Bundesliga, and it makes me extremely sad to be record-breaking. But Trod deserves the honor, his character is not flawless, he is a team player, a good person, and a goal machine. ”
With the last 2 rounds of the Bundesliga now, Schalke 04, currently at number one in the points table, is just one step away from promotion.
Born in Borholt, not far from Gelsenkirchen, Trod played football here as a contribution to his hometown. He is happy with the results of this season and may now consider whether to set foot in the Bundesliga for the fourth time or to stay in the Bundesliga next season.
"I know that my career has come to the final stage. I look forward to some time, when Schalke 04 returns to the Bundesliga, I can sit in my own garden and eat a barbecue and look back on my success at this club. ”
Conclusion:
It is more meaningful to kill four parties in the Bundesliga than to be unknown in the Bundesliga.
Decades later, Trod may still be the all-time goalscorer of the Bundesliga, which is something to be proud of forever. Then waiting for yourself to be 63 years old, to be broken by a latecomer, so that you can once again be known to many people, is also a happy thing.