Mönchengladbach - He is 36 years with the oldest by far Borussia professional.
But Oliver Neuville know it will again. "In football there are only good or bad and not young or old. I have been through the complete preparation and I feel in top shape, "said the striker.
The best proof he provided the Cup opener in Frankfurt (from 2-1). The 69-fold striker initiated both goals and was a constant threat.
If Michael Frontzeck now not past it, it also set up the championship starting on Sunday in Bochum? "You have to ask the coach, but like the whole team and I have made a good game.
"I believe that I have used my chance," said Neuville, who will hang after 19 years at the professional end of the season likely his football kicker on the nail. "Right now, I'm assuming that 2010 is the end. My contract expires, but wait times as the season runs. If my body cooperate, I hang maybe still there a year. But this I do not worry me now, "says the attacker.
His goals for the upcoming Bundesliga season: "I want to help the team with my experience and I personally hope to get more applications than last season. The system with two strikers me very congenial. "
Under predecessor Hans Meyer Neuville saw no land. Only once, when Marko Marin was locked, he was ran under the ex-coach from the start. "It was a coincidence," he dismisses. "If he had remained coach I had toyed with the idea to change under Meyer, I would never get a real chance. It would have made no sense to stay. "With Frontzeck are the cards but new (and fair) mixed.
