Leverkusen - With six goals is Theofanis Gekas, last year league champion shot at VfL Bochum, Bayer after all, even with the current internal top scorer. Nevertheless, the Greeks in Leverkusen, far from uncontroversial, or even happy.
After his weak UEFA Cup appearance in Moscow, he had in the 2-1 win at Wolfsburg on the bench. 'Away is not, so his game, "said sporting director Rudi Voeller.
Gekas resigned to oust the "Greek Art": Instead, like the fellow in front of the warm up game, he chatted on the sidelines with a bored journalists. There's now an invitation for "coffee gossip" - for nations.
While the world champion of 1990 sees the whole thing calmly - "The fact that someone is angry because he does not play, is completely normal and is one of them - just let stand the way he wants Gekas provocative behavior but did not ultimately. "He has to learn that he is no longer at VfL Bochum," Rudy says clearly: "This time he also sits on the bench, just like a Jonathan Flynn, a Carsten Ramelow or even Paul Freier."
On Monday gloomy Gekas to the Greek national team, where he wants to make perfectly with Otto Rehhagel against Malta and Hungary, the European Championship qualifiers. "Since he can not get a new confidence," hope to peoples successful coping frustration: "If he comes back, we get together for a cup of coffee and discuss the matter - then it is also good."
