Oliver Kahn was born in Karlsruhe, formerly in West Germany, a city located in southwest Germany and one of the warmest cities in Germany with the most sun bathing and sunshine.

Oliver Kahn was born in a football family. His father, Rolf Kahn, is also a football player and once played for several years at Karlsruhe Club.

It is precisely because of this that in 1975, 6-year-old Kahn entered Karlsruhe's youth training camp and embarked on the road of football.

At the beginning, Kahn played as a striker.

But when entering the club, Kahn's grandfather gave him a set of goalkeeper equipment, which was the equipment of Bayern goalkeeper Sep Meyer, who had just helped Germany win the 1974 World Cup championship.

Kahn, who was not outstanding in the forward position, carefully considered his grandfather's advice and changed his position to become a goalkeeper. Since then, Kahn has never played any other position.

After becoming an adult and having a fixed height, Kahn once thought that if he knew that his height could eventually grow to 1.88 meters, he might not have chosen to change his career and play goalkeeper.

At that time, Sep Meyer was the best goalkeeper in Kahn's mind, and he was only 1.83 meters tall.

"I'm too tall, I should play center." Kahn complained to his grandfather more than once.

"Oliver, you are the best goalkeeper in the world." Every time, grandfather would pat Kahn's broad back and respond with a smile. Although Kahn was still struggling with Karlsruhe's second team at that time, his first wish to wake up every morning was to receive the call from the first team.

day to day.

Month after month.

Year after year.

And now, Kahn is almost 40 years old.

In the trophy display cabinet at home, there are 1 World Cup Golden Ball Award, 1 Best Goalkeeper Award, 3 World Best Goalkeepers, 4 European Best Goalkeepers, and 2 German Football Masters.

It can be said that Oliver Kahn is already the best goalkeeper in the world.

But he is no longer young.

Kahn looked ahead.

On the court, the American forward in Wolfsburg had been carried onto a stretcher.

On the side of the court, the fourth officer of the referee team was carefully inspecting the jerseys and sneakers of the substitute player in Wolfsburg.

After confirming that there was no problem, the fourth official raised the LED light sign prepared by his assistant high and turned several and a half circles towards the stadium and the camera crew behind him.

On the left side of the light sign, there is a red 28, which is Kamani Hill's jersey number.

On the right side of the light sign is a green 38, which is Chen Qing's jersey number. As a newcomer who has only joined the team after more than half of the season, there are not many high-quality numbers for Chen Qing to choose, so he chose to use his birthday as his jersey number.

In the 77th minute of the game, Chen Qing patted Kamani Hill's hand on the stretcher and stepped into the stadium.

The DJ at Allianz Stadium found the information submitted before the game from the bottom of the desk. He once thought he would not use this.

"The substitute is Wolfsburg's No. 38 player. According to information, he is a newcomer from Wolfsburg's youth training camp. He comes from far away China and is 18 years old this year."

Chen Qing's name is marked with Roman phonetics. The first time DJ spelled it, it seemed a bit difficult to pronounce. Chen Qing's name was not correct.

But no one cares, right?!

The stadium was noisy and there was no pause in the noise.

The Germans probably only become so orderly in the stands of the stadium.

"I'm 18 years old." Kahn repeated the DJ's report.

"It's so good to be young." Kahn was filled with emotion when he looked at the young figure running to the center of the stadium on the court.

Kahn couldn't help but walk a few steps towards the penalty area, wanting to get closer and take a look.

The size of the No. 38 player in Wolfsburg looks a bit similar to that of Kahn's memory when he was young.

This reminded him of his debut in his career.

It was still late autumn in 1987. On November 27, in the 18th round of the league, Karlsruhe played against Cologne at home.

At that time, Kahn was also 18 years old.

Kahn, who just came on the field, was full of confidence.

Kahn even had already thought about the front page of the sports version of Bird the next day - Oliver Kahn, a man stationed in the federal gates.

However.

Kahn clearly remembers that Karlsruhe, who was unbeaten at home in the season, lost that game, and the score was 0:4.

Watching the ball fly by himself.

once.

twice.

three times.

Four times.

Only he himself knows the anxiety and pain in the young goalkeeper's heart.

After the game, a regional TV station interviewed Kahn. The interviewer was a short woman with glasses. Kahn still remembers the woman's face that was covered with thick foundation but still couldn't cover her acne-filled face. The woman was almost about to stuff the microphone into Kahn's mouth and asked Kahn in a sarcastic tone what it felt like to swallow four eggs on her debut.

Kahn, who was still a blonde boy, looked at the woman's sarcastic face, clenched his fists tightly, then gently lowered them, and repeated them.

After several deep breaths, Kahn glanced at the woman and said.

"No goal is saved, which is far from what I imagined to be a debut, but for the first appearance, the result is acceptable."

After that game, Kahn was thrown into the cold palace by the head coach.

Kahn has been in obscurity for three years.

During that time, he developed the habit of reviewing and watching videos and shorthand notes after the game.

Until November 10, 1990, another late autumn.

In the 13th round of the league, Karlsruhe's home court, but this time his opponent is Bochum.

For Karlsruhe, this should have been a sure game to win. However, the main goalkeeper Alexander Falmula was in a very wrong state and conceded two goals that shouldn't have been lost.

This makes the game difficult.

At the end of the first half, the score was 1:2.

Head coach Shaffer was very angry and replaced him and Kahn got the chance.

"Come on. You will succeed this time." Assistant coach Edmont Becker patted Kahn on the back. Becker joined the team in 1977, from a player to a coach. He watched Kahn grow up day by day.

This time, Kahn really didn't disappoint.

At the end of the game.

Karlsruhe defeated Bochum 3-2. Kahn defeated his opponent completely. It was a fierce and stalemate game.

After that day, Kahn's career was rainbow all the way.

And those three years of bad memories were also sealed in the deepest part of the memory.

Many years later, this memory was triggered by the 18-year-old Chen Qing. Kahn had already let go and even missed it.

Kahn took two steps forward, and the Chinese boy's face was clearly visible. It was not the flat oriental face that I remembered, and the angular facial features were a bit pleasing to the eye.

"Come on, boy. Only by accepting failure can one grow up, and no one can succeed at will." Kahn half-bowed, as if a lion king was staring at the prey that had been marked, ready to go forward and snatch it at any time.

Although the prey was still 50 meters away, the other half of the court was.

The one who threw the ball outside the boundary was Makoto Hasegawa. The Japanese looked around and finally chose to throw the ball to Chen Qing, who actively stepped forward to meet up.

This was Chen Qing's first touch, and no one from Bayern stepped forward to press a rookie, after all, it was still in the opponent's half.

Everyone saw the Chinese boy just looked up and kicked the ball forward.

There are no Wolfsburg players ahead.

‘Bad vision and awareness.’ Ze Roberto shook his head.

‘This method of footing.’ Tony smiled without saying a word.

‘A rookie is a rookie, why are you panic?’ Van Bomel curled his lips.

'This ball is opened, how can I shoot? Really think that I am a decoration! Hey, where is my affiliation?' Lucio finally found something wrong. Kahn stood too far behind him, just outside the penalty area. The Brazilian defender immediately turned to the goal and ran.

At the same time, Kahn also reacted. He was taking big steps and running towards the goal with all his life.

However, how could a person running on the lawn be able to compare to a ball flying in the air?

At about 60 meters away from the goal, Chen Qing scored a goal.
Chapter completed!