Giant passers-by, game cattlemen, fringe internationals, those players you forgot, live stream remember. This edition of football brings you legendary Bremen striker Elton.
If the wave beach and the beer belly are the perfect match, then the green field and the eight-pack abs are the perfect match. So when a professional player steps onto the field with a small belly, what awaits him will be a bloody verbal rebuke. But there are exceptions to everything – in the 2003-2004 season, whenever the stocky Elton stepped into bremen's home stadium, the adoration of the mountain roared: "Ball lightning!" Ball lightning! ”
It seems that a fat man has never been treated so well in the green field. In the 2003-2004 season, Elton scored 28 goals in the Bundesliga and won the Bundesliga Golden Boot, helping Bremen to magically win the Bundesliga title. "One choice can often change a player's career," Elton is also a prime example of this statement. After leaving Bremen at his peak, Elton did not suffer a cliff-like descent at Schalke 04; from the moment he waved goodbye to fame, problems of one kind and another came to him.
His slightly obese smile, his comedic explosiveness and speed, his back as he was about to burst his jersey—forever stuck in that eternal summer.
【Player Information】
Name: Aílton Gonçalves da Silva
Nickname: Ball Lightning
Position: Striker
Age: 46 (born 19 July 1973)
Nationality: Brazilian
Height: 177cm
Place of birth: Mogeru, Paraíba, Brazil
Main teams: Werder Bremen, Schalke 04, Besiktas, Chongqing Lifan
Technical characteristics: amazing speed, strong ability to break through and get rid of, high shooting scoring rate
[Fame in Bremen, famous "traveler" in football]
Epiranga, Brazil International, MojiMirin, Santa Cruz... There are so many football clubs big and small in Brazil, and early in his career, Elton played in these little-known football clubs. At the age of 20, he began to play in the Brazilian regional league, and Elton was like an invisible fish, never able to swim to the shore in the sea.
As a child, Elton honed his skills barefoot on the farm, and at the end of 1997, at the age of 24, Elton suddenly attracted the attention of world football. That season he scored 20 goals from 43 appearances for The Liga side Guarani. The discerning Bremen offered Elton for the first time, but Elton chose to join the Tigers of the Mexican league. Elton's biggest takeaway in Mexico was getting to know her wife, Rosselli; his performance on the field was hardly worth mentioning: only five goals in 23 games.
Other teams were glad they didn't have the impulse to raise their offers, but then Bremen manager Wolfgang Sidka's appreciation was consistent. In the end, Werder Bremen received Elton for £2.5 million in October 1998. In Werder Bremen's first season, Elton scored just two goals, and Bremen struggled all season on the brink of relegation. "Parallel goods, he can't adapt to the Bundesliga, he doesn't deserve to be disciplined in front of the Germans..." The media and fans are willing to spend saliva and ink on Elton, which seems to be endless complaints and criticisms.
Before the start of the 1999-2000 season, bremen had even begun negotiations with Botafogo over Elton's return to Brazil. Negotiations ended in failure, with Bremen narrowly "carelessly" letting go of the team's historical figures. Elton was relieved to return to Brazil, gritting his teeth and returning to the rigid Germany, a legend in bremen history. The story ends with Elton reaching the top of the Bundesliga top scorers with 28 goals, and Bremen lifting the Bundesliga trophy as he wishes.
After making history with Bremen, Elton unexpectedly chose to leave. In the 2004-2005 season, Elton scored 14 goals in 29 appearances for Schalke 04, but his Brazilian-style brash brashness repeatedly troubled Schalke 04. Elton's Schalke 04 career came to an end in just one season – his first Bundesliga trip also came to an abrupt end.
Since 2005, Elton has played for Besiktas, Hamburg, Red Star Belgrade, Grasshopper, Duisburg, Donetskmita Road, Yatach and other teams, but in each team has not appeared more than 15 times, becoming a typical "casual professional". In the Chinese Super League, Elton also left his old and weak pace.
【Desperate Bremen career, the first "foreign" German footballer of the year]
'I have a great memory of my long career, and if I had to choose a favourite team, it would be Werder Bremen." In Bremen's meritorious book, Elton's name may now be in a very prominent position. But at the beginning of his Bundesliga career, the young Elton touched a nose of ash here.
Having just arrived in Germany, Elton, who went abroad for the first time, almost went crazy - he didn't speak German, he couldn't eat in a foreign country, his family and friends were out of reach... For the first three weeks, he had been huddled alone in the hotel eating pasta. Scoring a goal in the debut against Freiburg became his only consolation for himself and for everyone else. But just three days after that game, he urged the introduction of Elton's head coach Sidka to be dismissed and replaced by predatory coach Magath.
Elton is the quintessential Brazilian brassier, and he looks lazy. In the eyes of Magath, who plays devil training at every turn, Elton's waistline is simply a thorn in the eye. A typical Brazilian player and a typical German coach were on opposite sides from the start. Elton was quickly sent into the cold, scoring just four starts that season. Although Magath was sacked early at the end of that season, Elton was still put on the shelf at the end of the season – the homesick Elton only wanted to return to Brazil, and Bremen began negotiations with Botafogo.
A series of accidents brought Elton's Bremen career back to life.
Bremen and Botafogo failed transfer negotiations, Elton returned to Germany with a hard scalp; in the second game after returning to Germany, another beautiful accident occurred - away to Wolfsburg, former Yugoslav striker Bogdanovic was sent off in the 15th minute, and Elton, who came on as a substitute in a panic, made the whole of Germany look sideways! Scoring a goal of his own and delivering two assists for Pizarro, Bremen washed Wolfsburg 7-2 away. Elton's explosive performance swept the headlines of German media large and small the next day.
That game became a turning point in Elton Bremen's career, and in the following games of that season, Elton formed a pleasing attack line with Pizarro and Marco Bode, and the three of them combined to score goals that are often only seen in many computer games. The German fans slowly took off their tinted glasses, and every Bremen fan gradually realized that Elton's explosive power came from his size, and his flashing and moving in the opponent's penalty area was incomparable to any thin man.
Of course, the attentive Bremen fans sometimes worry about Elton because his shirt is really tight and tight. Especially as soon as he accelerates, the slim-fit jersey seems to be able to crack a big hole at any time...
The fame of "ball lightning" unwittingly swept across the German continent. Just in the 1999-2000 season, Ball Lightning gave Bremen 16 goals and 14 assists. And that was just the beginning of the "ball lightning" outburst, which lasted the next three seasons helped Bremen secure the middle of the Bundesliga. Elton's highlights briefly caught Bayern's attention, but Elton, who remained in Bremen, created a myth with the team in the 2003-2004 season.
In the first round of that season against Hertha Berlin, Elton scored 2 goals and provided 1 assist. No one could have imagined that goal assists would have since become a staple of Elton's season. Facing Bayern's blocking in the penultimate bundesliga round, Elton's left-footed arcing ball from outside the box in the 60th minute broke through the goal guarded by Kahn, and Bremen was able to beat Bayern 3-1 to win the title two rounds earlier. In the end, Elton scored 28 goals (and also gave up eight assists) in the Bundesliga that season; Bremen won his first title since 1993. Not only that, but Bremen also beat Aachen 3-2 in the final of the German Cup that season to reach the top.
Elton scored 28 goals in the Bundesliga that season, the highest number of individual league goals in the Bundesliga since 1981. With the exception of Hannover 96, Elton scored goals from all other teams, and this performance also made Elton the German Footballer of the Year that season, which was the first time that a foreign player won the German Footballer of the Year. In addition, in the 2004 European Golden Boot Awards, Elton lost to Henry and was second.
["Fast and Furious" is Elton's favorite, and the timeout is "only ball and no lightning"]
"Ball Lightning" Elton reached a speed of 10.5 seconds in 10.5 seconds at his peak, which made many 100-meter players ashamed. What is the source of his Fast & Furious? In an interview, Elton said: "The movie 'Fast and Furious' is my favorite! ”
The craziest thing is that Elton would actually race on the road where pedestrians passed. In bremen's day, Elton received a speeding ticket from the transport authorities every three to five minutes. Just after moving to Schalke 04, the club made it clear that he was not allowed to drag racing. Almost everywhere he went to play, Elton asked his agent to get himself a good car — and getting on the road on a dark and windy night was the thing Elton found most enjoyable.
In his pursuit of speed, Elton also has a very strange story - he loves to race with horses. Elton's brother had always wanted a farmstead, and after his brother's unexpected death in 2003, Elton fulfilled his brother's last wish: to buy a farm in Brazil. Since then, as soon as he returned to Brazil, he was very enthusiastic about racing with the horses on his farm. In an interview, he said that running with Marseille is the secret to maintaining his speed.
Elton often speeds in Germany, but there are actually quite practical reasons. In front of the Germans, whose concept of time is measured in seconds, Elton can be said to be "committing crimes" every day. A famous incident occurred during the pre-season in 2002, when the Brazilian decided to take a taxi to the team's training camp on The Island of Norderney because Elton's return to Bremen was later than the team's mandated time, but this time the taxi fare exceeded 700 euros. In daily training, seeing that he was late when he had just set off, Elton only had to step on the throttle all the way.
Bremen's astonishing goal efficiency made everyone happy to tolerate Elton's "lack of discipline". But after moving to Schalke 04, Elton's situation changed dramatically. Schalke 04 up and down against a "late king" is not welcome, Elton left Schalke 04 to play in Besiktas to settle the account: "It was Rangnick who made my Bundesliga trip end, and he used me to divert the contradictions. The team lost key points, and he called me a slacker. ”
"He punished me like a schoolboy and threw me on the cold bench. He wanted to educate me, but no one could change me." For this, Rangnick also feels aggrieved, "so much special treatment, time, understanding and sympathy, in my coaching career, I have not been so tolerant of any player." Schalke's sports manager, Muller, was not as polite as head coach Rangnick, and he shot back directly: "He acts like a stupid kid." If he had a clear mind, he could have spent two or three years in Schalke. ”
In the 2007–2008 season, Elton returned to Duisburg in the Bundesliga, but he left the team in a ridiculous way - because Elton returned to the team on Christmas Day 2007, he was directly expelled from Duisburg.
In 2009, Elton joined the Chinese Super League Chongqing team for $400,000 with the aura of a big-name foreign aid. Li Zhangsu, then the manager of Beijing Guoan, said bluntly at the time: "The lightning has long gone, and now there will only be a 'spherical shape'." Elton's Debut in the Chinese Super League was against no. 1 Beijing Guoan, who sent two assists to help Chongqing beat Beijing Guoan 3-2. The debut highlight became the only scenery of Elton's Chinese Super League career.
Due to his poor physical condition, Elton could not get into the eyes of Chongqing coach Ali Han. Chongqing career Elton played a total of 5 games with a total of 314 minutes, 3 starts and 2 substitutes, assisted 2 times and scored 0 goals, and 400,000 US dollars is equivalent to earning 8,000 yuan per minute. The "short-term work" in Chongqing has not yet ended, Elton said in an interview with Bild: "My contract in China will end in October, and I will return to Bremen when the time comes." Tell everyone in that city that their boss is coming back. ”
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