Michael Ballack - the “Capitano”: but in Köln, simply “not one of us”. Ballack became synonymous with Bayer Leverkusen’s rise between 1999 and 2002. After a 2-0 win over Schalke in March 2011, he was finished in Köln when he used a megaphone on the fence at the BayArena to chant “Scheiß FC Köln” twice. The DFB fined him 8,000 euros.\n\nThe words could not be unsaid, and even his later apology changed nothing.
From that point on, Ballack was persona non grata in Cologne.