Yet perhaps Jena did not take the match quite seriously enough. Their families were already waiting at the Baltic Sea, and the team planned to travel directly there after the final whistle. Extra time or even defeat had clearly not been part of the plan.\n\nBut when referee Rudi Glöckner blew for full time, it was Union’s players who had their arms in the air.
Köpenick’s underdogs had thoroughly deserved their 2–1 win. “The cup final was sadly our worst match of the season,” admitted Zeiss coach Georg Buschner.\n\n“We could not cope with the burden of being favourites. And however strange it sounds, scoring after thirty seconds was poison for us.”
