Wolfgang Petry: hit star sings with DFB women

Outstanding polonaise instead of sweaty training: The DFB women received a very special guest in their European Championship training camp in Herzogenaurach. Schlager legend Wolfgang Petry (73) provided an unforgettable evening with his biggest hits on Monday evening. To songs such as “madness” and “fall in love, lost, forgotten, forgive” “” hopped and danced enthusiastically over the site.

“Fiever dream of the best kind. You have to have been there,” enthused international Laura Freiang (27) about the unusual preparation for the European Championship in Switzerland. Midfielder Sjoeke Nüsken (24) even as “Fan No. 1” and posted a video that she shows in a thick hug with the 73-year-old singer, while both sing along.

The players had secretly organized the performance to give national coach Christian Wück (52) and his coaching team a special pleasure. Captain Giulia Gwinn (25) and Linda Dallmann (30) therefore contacted Petry’s management and took up an invitation video.

The enthusiasm for Petry, who had announced his career-off in 2006 and has not been running live since then, has long been known in the DFB team. His music runs regularly in the team bus, and as freely recently revealed, the hit star is “highly in the course” at the German selection. “Music runs and we all roam with,” she said about the mood in the team.

On June 30, the team travels to the EM quarter in Zurich. The European Championship of women will take place from July 2nd to July 27th; The opening game against Poland is on July 4th.