In his career as a professional footballer, Ansgar Brinkmann also played for Preußen Münster, among others. This season, the former Bundesliga player has high hopes for the SCP.
When Preußen Münster won 3:1 (0:0) against MSV Duisburg in front of a sold-out crowd last Friday evening, an old acquaintance of the Münster team was also present in the stadium on Hammer Straße. Ansgar Brinkmann played a total of 126 games for SCP during his time as an active footballer, scoring 26 goals.
During his career, Brinkmann played for 15 different clubs and still enjoys cult status throughout Germany. At the game between his former employer and the relegation-threatened MSV, the “white Brazilian” saw not only strong Münster players but also self-sacrificing Duisburg players.
“All in all, Münster deserved to win, but Duisburg also put up a good fight. After the first five minutes, MSV should have been 2-0 up, but they missed two hundred percent chances,” Brinkmann summed up. ”Münster had a very difficult start, but they found their feet better and better after Duisburg was sent off.”
In the 26th minute, MSV player Joshua Bitter was sent off after making an emergency stop against Münster’s Joel Grodowski. “He shouldn’t have gone in like that. Even if the opponent goes through, you just have to let him go. When you have to play for so long with a man down away from home, it’s pretty tough,” revealed Brinkmann. “Even after conceding the second goal, MSV came back again and got on the board. After that, they went all out, of course, and conceded the third goal on the counterattack.”
The win saw Münster climb to fourth in the table, at least for one night, and thus remain among the top teams in the league. In view of the Adlerträger’s strong season so far, Brinkmann had high praise for SCP coach Sascha Hildmann: “The coach is an architect and what he’s doing here is really terrific. The players on the pitch can also play and put up a real fight on the wet grass.”
Furthermore, the issue of avoiding relegation is off the table for Brinkmann. According to the former professional, the SCP could, if at all, be aiming higher. “I’m excited to see where the journey takes us, but to be objective, they can start planning for next year, because it’s as certain as night follows day that they’ll avoid relegation with this squad. Maybe they can even move up, because if their run continues, it will be really scary. Great respect for what the Prussians are showing in this 3rd division.”
If you don’t have the courage to dream, you have no strength to fight.
Ansgar Brinkmann
Lastly, Preußen Münster played in Germany’s second-highest division for two consecutive seasons from 1989 to 1991 before the SCP had to go down again to the then-Oberliga Westfalen. Although it is unlikely in Brinkmann’s view, a promotion to the Bundesliga 2 this year, possibly even via the relegation, is not impossible.
“They should definitely apply for a license for the second division so that a possible promotion does not fail for this reason. In other words, if you don’t dare to dream, you have no strength to fight. When players dream, it releases certain energies, and if they want to look further up and extend their winning streak, that’s only natural,” explained Brinkmann with regard to the founding member of the Bundesliga potentially being promoted.