When Germany were world champions: 12 years till his 2nd Buli goal | OneFootball

We all know it: the obligatory minute-counting when a striker goes through a longer dry spell, just can’t find the net, and then “180, 360, 540” minutes pass without a goal of his own, with the pressure mounting all the time.

For one Bundesliga player, it would be pretty difficult to count the minutes between his first and second goal in the top tier of German football.

Admittedly, Heidenheim’s Marnon Busch is not a number nine, but much more of a (right-)back. Even so, it is and remains remarkable that he celebrated his first goal in Germany’s top division on September 27, 2014, and then had to wait until yesterday’s Easter Saturday for his second.

Back then, Germany were famously world champions; 12 years have passed since, and the sun had to rise and set 4,207 times before Busch was able to celebrate another goal of his own. In the 2-2 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach, the 31-year-old put the bottom side ahead in the 64th minute with his first touch and with his left foot.

He scored his first Bundesliga goal 12 years ago for SV Werder Bremen in a 2-1 defeat away to VfL Wolfsburg.

After his time in Bremen, however, he initially spent a long time away from the Bundesliga. In 2016, he moved on loan to 1860 Munich, before joining Heidenheim in 2017 after Munich’s relegation, where he continued playing in the second division. In 174 appearances in the second division, he scored a total of four goals; in the Bundesliga, after 72 appearances, he now has exactly two.

If he had waited a few more seasons to score his second Bundesliga goal, he could have taken the record: in Bernd Schuster’s case, 4,875 days had passed between one goal and the next.

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