That Mainz 05 are a carnival club and, aside from the 1982 German amateur title, have never won a senior title is well known even in Frankfurt. Less well known are these facts: Mohamed Zidan could apparently only be happy in Mainz, with 29 of his 47 Bundesliga goals coming there over three separate spells; Nikolce Noveski became both the club’s record Bundesliga appearance holder and a six-time own-goal specialist; at Mainz the stadium announcer reads out only the opponents’ first names too, so away fans can shout the surnames; Harald Strutz once accurately described the club as a “club that opens opportunities”; Dimo Wache became the first Bundesliga-era honorary captain of Mainz; Manuel Friedrich, not André Schürrle, was the first Mainz player capped by Germany; the “Bruchweg Boys” of 2010/11 generated millions in transfer income; within seven years Mainz’s top eight transfers brought in nearly 100 million euros, yet Christian Heidel’s mantra remained that Bundesliga football in Mainz was never a given; Kaiserslautern and Mainz will never truly fit together; only 200 spectators saw a second-division match at Freiburg against Mainz in 1991/92; a merger with Mainz-Weisenau was once considered in the late 1960s but never happened; Mainz have four favorite opponents on 15 wins each; Andrij Woronin remains the club’s only top scorer in professional football; and in 2005 the UEFA Fair Play ranking sent Mainz into Europe, where they eventually fell to Sevilla.