The networks of the arc and Internet

SEUL, Korea South del (Of a special envoy). - To the 33 years - festejó in Seogwipo, the day of the victory before Paraguay by the quarterfinals -, to Oliver Kahn it they have left few things to win. It arrived at the World-wide one as the great star of a Germany that did not come accompanied from great expectations. He is not capricious: to the arquero of Bayern Munich it guarantees a trajectory that makes be considered today, for many, like best guardavalla of the world.

Korea-Japan means the third and won one for him. Enough in two world-wide ones, but paradoxicalally this one is the one that marked its debut in the contest: in the United States 94 it delayed Bodo Illgner, and in France 98 the shade of Andreas Koepke had left. After the retirement of this one, already nobody discussed it like the owner of the German arc.

Kahn appeared in the Bundesliga defending the arc of Karesruhe, the equipment of his native city, in 1987, with hardly 18 years. Its figure grew season after season, which transformed it into an ambition of Bayern Munich, that incorporated it in 1994 by two million and means of dollars. It was a record for the transference of a arquero in his country. But by the end of that year had to assimilate one of the worse drinks of its race: a tear in the crossed ligaments of a knee marginalized it of the fields during five months.

Its mental strength allowed him to even return with more confidence, and to that badly moment it happened to him, time later, one rewarding one: the debut in the selected one, a friendly front to Switzerland (triumph by 2 to 1), in June of the following year. Year 2000 saw it arrive at the peak of the recognition, in its country and Europe: at the end of that season one chose like the best German soccer player of the year and the best arquero of the continent. Its firm character, even sometimes too vehement, went consolidating until transforming it into the figure of the equipment that gained Liga de Campeones of 2001 (when defeating in the end to Valencia) and the Glass European-South American woman, after winning to Mouth, Tokyo.

Golf gets passionate, to follow the swings of commerce stock-market and to seat to sail by Internet. Specially this last one: he was the first German player who had his personal page. For him, to be in the end of the World-wide one is, among other things, a way to emulate to his ídolo of always, Sepp Maier, and to make up for to itself of the black memory of the undergone made goals one before England (5-1) in Munich, in the eliminatory ones. Now it is the prop of an equipment that it looks for to extend the glory for Germany.