The 118-time German national basketball player Niels Giffey talks about the shock at the end of the Summer Games in Paris, FC Bayern Munich, too much stress in professional sports – and he announces his resignation from the national team.
Niels Giffey makes himself comfortable on the sofa in the FC Bayern lounge, with posters of Vladimir Lucic, Devin Booker – and himself hanging above him. His ring finger on his left hand, which he broke during a game at the beginning of October , is still in a small rail. So it’s time for the 118-time German international to talk about his career with the FC Bayern basketball team – and his resignation from the DBB team, which he now announces in the FC Bayern podcast “Open Court” and in the SZ .
