‘I had a fag with the chairman in Liverpool’s showers after Istanbul comeback’
Didi Hamann says he smoked a celebratory cigarette within the showers with Liverpool’s chairman after profitable the Champions League in 2005.
The Reds did the unthinkable by getting back from 3-0 all the way down to beat an AC Milan facet packed to the brim with generationally-talented gamers in what was arguably essentially the most dramatic Champions League ultimate of all time. Hamann, 50, got here on as a second half sub and helped Rafa Benitez’s males claw their manner again into the competition, earlier than ultimately triumphing on penalties.
Speaking on That Peter Crouch Podcast, the previous Germany worldwide stated he and his team-mates had been so flabbergasted with their comeback that the environment was quiet after they obtained again to the dressing room.
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“You come in and it’s all a bit surreal,” Hamann stated. “We left the dressing room two hours before dead and buried, and now the cup is in the middle of the floor. There were no wild celebrations. People just sat there in disbelief.
“I assumed, now I’ll have a celebratory smoke, however I’d left my fags within the resort. A minute later the chairman in, David Moores. He was the largest [Liverpool] fan, he liked being with the boys. He walked in and earlier than he might even say something I grabbed and stated, ‘Chairman, I would like you within the bathe for a second’.
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“I told him to give me a fag and he said, ‘I can’t. What if the manager walks in?’ And I told him, you’re the chairman, just sack him. So reluctantly he gave me one and sparked up himself, and we just stood there. We never said a word to each other.”
Moores sadly handed away in 2022, and Hamann says sharing that second in Istanbul with him was “the icing on the cake of the best evening in football terms [of my life].”
Hamann spent seven years at Liverpool, profitable seven main honours with the membership. He additionally performed for Bayern Munich, Newcastle and Manchester City.
