Huddersfield ace Collin Quaner reveals he started playing in front of 200 fans as he prepares for 75,000 Old Trafford crowd
German forward is ready to step out at Theatre of Dreams for the Terriers today after cutting his teeth in German reserve leagues
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COLLIN Quaner is ready to go from playing in front of a couple of hundred people in second team football to more than 75,000 at Old Trafford this afternoon.
The German forward started out in reserve sides at Arminia Bielefeld and Fortuna Dusseldorf before moving to a similar level at Ingolstadt.
Now less than five years later, he will step out at Old Trafford.
Back then, games in the Regionalliga Bayern – the fourth tier of German football – attracted an average crowd at Ingolstadt of 211.
And he has revealed his ambitions were just to make it as high as he can in his homeland, while harbouring dreams of moving to England.
Quaner, 26, and has never been to Old Trafford said: “It’s some rise.
“The crowd was not comparable with Huddersfield or in the Premier League, it will definitely be a different kind of atmosphere today.
“Everything now is faster and my dreams back then were to play in the Bundesliga or in the UK. I’ve gone beyond those but I still have goals now.
“I moved to Union Berlin and played against Borussia Dortmund in the cup.
“We took Dortmund to a penalty shoot-out, which was in front of the famous yellow wall and it blew me away but I’m sure the atmosphere at even Bayern won’t be anything like Old Trafford.
“And my first game for Huddersfield was at Rochdale in the FA Cup, nothing I’ll experience can really compare!”
Huddersfield may be looking for a league double over United but boss David Wagner admits all was not as it seemed in October’s 2-1 home win.
He said as he faces losing Chris Loewe and Danny Williams: “We have to be totally honest. Everyone thinks we played United off the park as we won, no.
“We had two good opportunities and used them but they had two and didn’t."