Stefan Effenberg, the overweight one: on April 2, 2003 he left Wolfsburg after only 19 appearances, just as suddenly as he had arrived. Coach Jürgen Röber granted him no privileges and assistant Bernd Storck found him too heavy and unfit at 90 kilos. Effenberg was outraged and later claimed Röber still had to learn how to deal with certain players.
Hamburg’s Cheffe and Wolfsburg were a mismatch par excellence.