Women’s European Championship: Commentator in the ARD confused about dismissal

Women’s European Championship: Commentator in the ARD confused about dismissal

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Sacrificed dismissal-ARD caught false start to the women’s European Championship


Confusion in the ARD at the start of the women’s European Championship: Viewer and commentator missed at the live broadcast. The resolution only followed after minutes.

The women’s football European Football is running, the first two games have been completed. For the first time, ARD and ZDF broadcast all games of a women’s tournament-like men. But the entry was not according to plan for the first.

In the first game between Iceland and Finland there was confusion with commentator Stephanie Baczyk and the spectators. In the 58th minute, several repetitions of a chance for the Icelandic team and a supposed handball flicker over the screens. When the live picture was connected again, I saw Icelanders Hildur Antondottir left the field. Only nobody really knew why.

First game of the women’s European Championship: ARD does not show yellow-red card

The midfielder had seen her first yellow card a few minutes earlier and had flown off the square with yellow-red, so much was clear. The audience hadn’t seen exactly what exactly she had come to owe – and commentator Baczyk. “We were just so deepened as to the repetition of the scene that we have to dissolve it in peace,” she said. “See it to me.”

But the director had the director fidgeted. “I would like to explain it to you,” Baczyk assured, but she also did not get a repeat of the scene at first. It was only about three minutes later, at the next interruption, that a slow motion of the foul, which led to the yellow-red card, was recorded. So everyone was up to date.

Twelve minutes after the dismissal, Katarina Kosola scored the decisive goal for Finland, the Finns won the opening game of the European Championship 1-0. In the official opening game of the EM, the hosts from Switzerland lost 1: 2 against Norway. The German team will play its first group game against Poland on Friday.

Source: Stern

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