Champions League: Real dreams of the remontada against PSG – Sport
There’s always hope at Real Madrid when it comes to coming from behind in European competition and that’s thanks to a myth named Juanito who died 30 years ago. Semi-final first leg of the 1984/85 Uefa Cup, Inter Milan versus Real Madrid, final score: 2-0. hopeless? Not for Juan Gómez González, as Juanito’s real name […]
Basketball – Heavy rebuff for Munich – Sport
Table leaders Bayern Munich suffered their heaviest defeat of the season in the top game of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). The Munich team, who once again had to do without their coach Andrea Trinchieri, were surprisingly clearly defeated by the Telekom Baskets Bonn on the 24th day of play with 61:96 (27:48) and are only […]
Resignation of handball player Patrick Wiencek: Lord of the paws – sport
You won’t find someone like Patrick Wiencek in German handball anytime soon. A guy hard as concrete, yet soft as a down pillow. How can someone who is so tough, so bossy, so relentless on the handball field, who often hurts his opponents at two meters tall and 117 kilos, be such a gentle guy […]
FC Bayern in the individual review: A touch of Wolfsburg – Sport
Of Martin Schneider Manuel Neuer Open detailed view (Foto: IMAGO/IMAGO/ActionPictures) Just missed five games due to knee surgery, including the first leg in Salzburg. Representative Sven Ulreich did well, but if Manuel Neuer was in goal, the opponent might have “a different mindset,” said Thomas Müller before the game. Salzburg coach Matthias Jaissle said they […]
Champions League: Liverpool lose, but are in the quarterfinals – Sport
Despite losing to Inter Milan, Jürgen Klopp has reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League with Liverpool. The Reds lost 1-0 (0-0) to the Italian soccer champions in the round of 16 on Tuesday, but Liverpool won the first leg 2-0 with the German coach in mid-February. Lautaro Martínez (62′) scored the goal for the […]
Hertha BSC: Korkut scolds, Friedrich goes – sport
Tayfun Korkut, 47, had various famous coaches as a professional. For example: the later world champions Vicente del Bosque (Spain/2010), Joachim Löw (Germany/2014) and Carlos Alberto Parreira (Brazil/1994), who were all masters of objectivity, like Korkut itself. On Tuesday, however, the coach of the Bundesliga club Hertha BSC, threatened with relegation, hit tones that were […]
Alexander Zverev: A stale feeling remains – sport
Of course one could say: He has been punished enough. Alexander Zverev was disqualified for the remainder of the tournament in Acapulco at the end of February after his verbal attack on the referee and the angry blows with the bat on the chair, on which the Italian Alessandro Germani flinched. His prize money was […]
Leonie Walter at the 2022 Paralympics: St. Peter is upside down – sport
Since Tuesday morning, Renate Walter has been able to describe what happens when the community of St. Peter in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is happy about a gold medal. It’s lucky to be able to reach her at all, she says on the phone, and during the conversation the cell phone rings again in the […]
David Raum: Hoffenheim’s flank wonder – Sport
If an attacker has to give way to another attacker after 56 minutes, it’s usually not a big deal as long as that attacker’s name isn’t Cristiano Ronaldo and he’s considered irreplaceable. However, Ihlas Bebou took his substitution with a visibly bad feeling, probably with a bad conscience. In the said 56 minutes, the 27-year-old […]
China at the Paralympics: The nice glow of the medals – Sport
Most Chinese haven’t heard what was probably most important to Andrew Parsons. “Peace,” yelled the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) at the end of his speech at the opening ceremony. “I am appalled by what is happening in the world right now,” he had previously said. But his statements on the political world […]