Another thing the media rarely mentions: Hopp played for the club in the 1960s, when Hoffenheim never rose above the Sinsheim A-Klasse. Legend has it that local butchers rewarded the striker Hopp with a tin of homemade liver sausage for every goal. As one Hoffenheim special from 2009 put it: if that friendly gesture is what created the emotional bond between Hopp and the club, then someone ought to erect a monument to the butcher in Kraichgau.