When talking about the 76 golden generation, the alien Ronaldo, the nuclear warhead Shevchenko, and the Roman prince Totti are all superstars familiar to fans, and Tolsten Flynns, who was born in 1976, is easy to ignore when making similar inventory, after all, in terms of stardom and strength, the Germans can only be regarded as supporting roles of contemporaries.
It is worth mentioning that when Flynns joined Bremen in 1997, the transfer fee was only 100,000 euros, while other superstars had already achieved the feat of carp jumping the dragon gate at the age of 21, but everyone has their own path, perhaps déjà vu, but not the only criterion for defining success.
Perhaps the aura of youth and fame cannot be seen in Flynns, but he has also stepped out of his own ordinary path.
Born in Aachen and joined the Arsdorf Academy at the age of 8, Flynns healed his heartbreak through football rather than a period of growth. It turned out that 5-year-old Flynns accidentally collided with a car while riding a bicycle, leaving a scar on his cheek, and he became withdrawn and inferior, but football was destined to be a light in Flynns's life, bringing him laughter and confidence.
He joined the Aachen academy at the age of 14 and made his career debut at the age of 18, although he only got 7 appearances in the Bundesliga, but the Aachen executives regarded him as the star of tomorrow, and sure enough, he won the main position in the second season and symmetrically won this praise in 32 games and 12 goals, and the most worthy of "showing off" was that he completed the senior year against Verla.
Unexpectedly, Bremen's potential stock was sold to Bremen for a small amount of 100,000 euros, but in addition to regret, it also fulfilled The transformation of Flynns. Even more exciting than playing the Bundesliga at the age of 21 is the slow-moving Flynns being advised by the manager to play in midfield. Although teetering between the first team and the reserve team, the young Flynns saw this as a godsend, and he deepened bremen's praise by taking the initiative to practice free kicks.
In the second season, Flynn scored the winning goal in the International Toto Cup final, helping Bremen to get the ticket to the UEFA Cup, and at the end of the season, Bremen beat Bayern in the German Cup final, and Flins played twice the season, with 9 goals and 2 assists to perfectly package the identity of the midfielder and deserve to be selected for the German national team.
It may be hard to imagine that at the beginning of Magath's takeover of the coaching seal, he asserted that "Flynns will be useless in the future", and it turned out that Flynns was a player who did not concede defeat, but he did not expect that Schaff would create a windfall and completely boost his career.
Schaff transformed him into a back, but Flynns gave back in a very special way, in the 2001-02 season he won 13 yellow cards, fierce defense is eye-catching, his one-on-one success rate and successful topping rate are more than 50%, but both offensive and defensive is the Label of the German, this season Flints not only won the team assist king, but also created 4 penalties for Bremen.
From another aspect, Flynns was indisputably selected as the best team of the Bundesliga season, and the draught did not forget to dig the well, and in 2013, Flynns said bluntly at his retirement ceremony: "Schaff has completed a new me." ”
During the leap from Plemy to Germany, Flynns was best at his powerful long-range shots and free kicks. In the 2004 European Championships, Germany played against the Netherlands, Flynns scored a world wave of 38.6 meters, and in the 2006 World Cup opener Germany against Costa Rica, Flynns shot straight into the dead corner of the goal from 30 meters away.
In addition to the pleasing world waves, the 2002 World Cup runner-up, the 2006 World Cup runner-up and the 2008 Euro 2008 runner-up are the "peaks" that Flynns can touch, unfortunately, 79 times for the country Flins has also experienced gray moments.
In the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup, a defensive leak by Flynns led to the opponent facing Kahn, and Ballack, who had to commit a technical foul, won a yellow card, and Barack, who had his own tragic attributes, eventually missed the final with Brazil, but German fans encouraged Flynns with the slogan "King of the Midfield". Before the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup, Flynns was banned by FIFA for a photo, which ultimately prevented Germany from advancing to the World Cup finals.
On the eve of the 2010 World Cup, German national team coach Loew excluded Flynns from the squad on the grounds of reusing new people, and when Barack was injured, more than half of German fans voted for Flynns in the investigation of "who will replace Barak".
In fact, after Euro 2008, Loew arranged for Flynns to sit on the bench, and Ballack, as the captain, also held a grudge against his teammates: "In my opinion, we should treat Flynns with respect and honesty. ”
In this way, Flins, who had created "trouble" for Barak, was helped, and it was clear that "Made in Bremen" had its own foothold. The ability to take free kicks and one-foot shots is his magic weapon, but his diligent style of play is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and it is worth mentioning that during the Bayern era, he and Ballack complemented each other.
In fact, Bremen fans have a knot in their hearts – if Flins hadn't left the Weser Stadium so early, how nice it would have been. It's just that he was successfully gilded in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, and he was naturally remembered by the giants, and Flynns also needed a new platform to show himself. It was just that there were very few things that went as desired, and Flynns, who went out, experienced at most mixed emotions.
At Borussia Dortmund, he finished runner-up in the Bundesliga and was selected for the Bundesliga all-time squad, and when the limelight was in full swing, the media had headlined "Flyns makes people forget the injured Rosicky", unfortunately, he soon suffered a major injury to a torn cruciate ligament; At Bayern Munich, he won his first Bundesliga title, but he met Magath, who was initially unoptimistic, and his relationship with Bayern lasted only one season after losing his main position.
Flynns, who failed to move on to the next level, returned to Bremen in 2005, and in the mood of the reunion, he tasted two German Cup titles and one UEFA Cup runner-up, scored a hat-trick for assists, was shortlisted for the UEFA Best Squad and was elected as Bremen's new captain.
Counting the first sight when they first met, in the cumulative 11 years of cooperation, Flynns has long been regarded as a legend by the "Parrot Army", Bremen has provided him with a position as a youth coach, but he refused on the grounds that he did not want to retire prematurely, and later Flins, who retired in the MLB, trained with his old club in the offseason to maintain his status, which is also another sense of affection.