Fortuna vs Wesseling 6-0: Oh, what a night!

It was one of those special evenings when everything just seems to fall into place. Just a perfect night at the Südstadion. The weather was brilliant, the crowd who showed up was huge (at least for 5th divison football standards) and the atmosphere was great. And what better way to start off the game than with a goal for your favourite team after only 2 minutes (Daniel Blankenheim scoring on a header from Marco Stasiulweski). To be honest, I was rather afraid going to the match. The last game I had seen was the disastrous 0-4 loss against local rivals Viktoria Köln and since then I was slightly boycotting the team. But ever since I stopped going to the matches they put up an enormous winning streak. This coincided with the launch of the project where fans can own their football club (www.deinfussballclub.de), an idea picked up by german director Sönke Wortmann from the english original www.myfootballclub.co.uk. So Fortuna was doing fine and although I was slightly superstitious I showed up for Friday's match against Spvgg Wesseling-Urfeld, a team from a small industrial town just a few kilometres south of Cologne.
As said, the game got off to a great start and from there on Fortuna waas in charge. I can hardly remember a match in which they were so dominant. Wesseling only had one shot at the goal of Günther Schumacher, albeit a dangerous one. But the offense was clicking and by halftime the score was up 3-0. Rachid Boullal scored the 2nd after a wonderful solo dribbling (40') and Stasiulewski, after missing a huge chance only minutes before when he hit the post, made it 3-0 (45').
With such a lead the crowd went for their halftime enjoyment (buying a beer at a nearby liquor store) and was looking forward to some more brilliant football in the second half. They had to wait for 20 minutes though, but then captain Stephan Glaser exploded. He was great in the first half when he had two chances where he went through the Wesseling defense like a hot knife through butter, as they would say in Germany. This time he got the ball in the right corner of the penalty box, took out two defenders and slotted the ball in the far left corner of the goal (64'). He even scored another one 20 minutes later after a brilliant pass from Kris Morton (87') and the final blow came from Morton himself with the final whistle (90'). Wesseling was absolutely no match for the boys in red.
The crowd then refused to leave until their heroes walked down the line of outstretched hands hi-fiving everyone there. So every now and then it's one of those very special nights where everythings seems to fall miraculously into place. The singing didn't seem to end and everybody, I'm sure, is looking forward to the next home match. There is a webpage which posts some game summaries with videos a few days later (in german), so I'm really looking forward to watching the goals over and over again.

Official Homepage game report