"I don't remember this moment": Rene Eidams recalls Michael van Gerwen Ally Pally comeback as a blur
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Rene Eidams famously qualified for the 2016 PDC World Darts Championship and faced Michael van Gerwen in a game where he pushed MVG to the final set.
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MVG was at the peak of his darting powers around this time and became the all conquering juggernaut we know today. Eidams looked to be fading and he came back to trouble him.
At the MODUS Super Series, he spoke about how he got into the sport and how in reality he was honestly looking for money and fame.
"In Germany I think the last 20 years was bigger than steel tip in Germany. In my home city, every pub you can play soft tip. No steel tip in my city," said Eidams on Tungsten Talk - the MODUS Super Series channel.
"Money and TV Shows. I start looking at the first World Championship in Germany and think wow that's great I want to play steel tip."
"The crowd is Germany is so big and is so good. We have so many people in Germany that love the sport. In Germany it gets bigger and bigger. We have so many great young players and I think the European Tours and Challenge Tours is a great opportunity for the players."
From Super League chance to MVG
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From there he went on to play German Super League and he said it was a real twist of fate that he even ended up in the final due to circumstances.
"When I win the tournament, we played five days. One playing day, you play 16 players in a group. That's a long time to go from February to November. Max Hopp was qualified, Dragutin Horvat had an accident with his ankle and then I was in the final. I think wow that wasn't my plan. I lost two games in the group and I think I'm out but I wasn't out I was still in.
"I play darts and I love it. Then it wasn't for me so difficult."
But he then went on to get MVG and said it was easy for him and he didn't get nervous beforehand and also now doesn't remember.
"I was at work and saw the draw and they were saying wow that was a big opponent for you on the big stage with the biggest player. I thought have fun, play darts, win a leg. That was my plan.
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"Before the game it was easy, no problem for me. Now I cannot remember the situation. The last memory I have he go 2-0 up, I won no legs and I said come on please hold one leg. That was my target. That happened and I played darts, I feel darts but I don't remember this moment."
From The Cube to not so much a Cube
He also got the nickname The Cube albeit not in the most flattering terms not that Eidams minded as he ran with it.
"It came from Maik Langendorf, after the Super League final we had a soft tip tournament and he needed a nickname for me and he said you look like in English is Cube and that was my shape of my body."
But perhaps the biggest story in his life since has been that he has lost a shed load of weight and is less Cube like.
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"I had an operation. I lost a lot of weight, that was not so easy to play darts. I have other things to eat and drink. It's not so easy to manage with darts."
"I have to go the professional way and I play the qualifications for UK Open, Q-School. Play all tournaments I can do. I own my own company and my practice time in the last three years wasn't all that much."
Also he looked back at the famous lollipop man during Covid ushering players onto the oche. "It was not safe, this time one week for our brain we can play darts. That was a good time. But playing style with the lollipop man wasn't so easy for us."
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