Finke turned out to be a stroke of luck for Stocker and Freiburg. “We only ever drew up one contract,” he later said, “after that we did it by handshake.” Trust that paid off. Finke led SC Freiburg into the Bundesliga in 1993, season tickets became a second currency in the university city, and Finke and Stocker became one of the league’s great double acts.\n\nTheir record was extraordinary: third place in 1994/95, two UEFA Cup campaigns, and even relegations in 1997, 2002 and 2005 did not break them.