💸 All out for the Mallorca trip: Kreisliga team leaves their coach skint | OneFootball

As a player, coach, official, or fan, you’re usually happy about every goal that’s scored—no question about it. But for a coach in the Kreisliga, every goal his team scores right now could also feel like a stab to the heart—or at least to his wallet.

The reason is one of those bets you might make here and there in life—maybe after your second or third beer—and whose stakes end up haunting you for much longer than you’d like.

In Kreisliga C in Hanau, there’s currently only one team calling the shots and looking to move back up to the Bezirksliga as quickly as possible: Rot Weiss Großauheim. Right now, the Kreisliga players are at the top of the table with 18 wins and one draw. Their goal tally is even more impressive: 127 goals scored and only 13 conceded.

And that’s exactly where the problem lies: As reported by ‘hessenschau’, after being relegated last season and during the pre-season, the team was lacking motivation. Coach Ricardo Richter tried to change that with a bet.

He promised: If his team breaks the 100-goal mark, he’ll pay five euros into the team fund for every goal scored beyond that milestone. It worked well—maybe a little too well. After all, his team currently stands at 127 goals, and the season isn’t even halfway over.

The team’s internal projections estimate at least 200, maybe even 300 goals by the end of May. In the worst-case scenario, that would mean 1,000 euros for the coach—and according to the ‘hessenschau’ report, that’s exactly the team’s goal.

By the way, Rot Weiss Großauheim also has a little cheat code they’ve been using since the start of the season: a striker named Parker. Due to his job, he had to cut back over the summer and moved from the Hessenliga down to the Kreisliga. According to his coach, he alone has already scored 38 goals.

So Parker will be pouring plenty of money into his club’s team fund—thanks to the bet Coach Parker made before the season because of motivation problems. Those problems are clearly a thing of the past now. 

And what will they do with the money from the team fund in the end? That’s a question you really shouldn’t even have to ask—but ‘hessenschau’ did anyway: “We want to go on our end-of-season trip to Mallorca and blow all the money there,” said the top scorer of Kreisliga C in Hanau. Of course, what else!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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