Leverkusen - Bayer-star Simon Rolfes: If he were a car, he would not in any "margin-emerge Statistics. For this man has no margins - he runs and runs and runs.
For the 2005/06 season, the midfielder from Aachen Tivoli moved to the Bayer Cross - on the fourth match day he first stood in the starting lineup, and since then every time Leverkusen's first league game on the pitch.
Power of 82 league games in a row. This creates no other field players, Hamburger Danny Mills is the first "runner" in the "long-running table" already with 33 games - nearly an entire season - off ...
The first prerequisite for Rolfes' record - in addition to its playful qualities - is of course fitness. The only question is why the man is never hurt?
"I try as continuous as possible to prepare for each practice and every game," said the 26-year-old national team player and his fitness secrets revealed: "I do before each training session ten to 15 minutes individual gymnastics and strength exercises.
Perhaps it has been protected from injury. "His program, he had collected himself" from his own experience, this is also copied "to other players, and give some tips from the fitness trainers, even with the national team."
Last week was Rolfes time flat with the flu, but it has cured. And if he is not hit by the comet, he completed his 83rd Sunday in Cottbus League game in a row. His target for the second half: "The qualification for the UEFA Cup is our goal - but also our obligation."
