Havertz donates a large sum for flood victims +++ Gündogan continues to play in DFB-Elf +++ Zverev and Kerber in Cincinnati in the quarter-finals +++ Sports news at a glance.
From “A” for American football to “F” for football to “Z” for decathlon. The world of sport is diverse. Every day there are sometimes more, sometimes less important competitions that are hardly noticed or even go under because of the dominance of a few sports. Wrongly – we think – and at this point we also and above all report on high-class sport apart from king football.
August 23: Kimmich extends FC Bayern until 2025
Now it’s official: FC Bayern has extended the contract with national player Joshua Kimmich until 2025. The 26-year-old midfielder moved from RB Leipzig to the German record champions in 2015 and has developed into a world-class and leading player there. On the club’s website, Kimmich is quoted as saying: “The most important reason for my contract extension is that I can enjoy my passion every day here at Bayern,” explains Kimmich. “I have a team with which I can achieve anything, and many teammates have become real friends. That’s why I started playing football in the first place: Because it should be fun. I don’t see myself at the end of my development and I am convinced that a lot is possible at FC Bayern in the next few years. In addition, my family feels very much at home here. Munich has become a second home. The combination that we have here cannot be found anywhere in the world. “
August 22: Zverev wins in Cincinnati
The German tennis aces Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber have improved their world rankings after their successful performance in Cincinnati. Zverev moved from fifth to fourth place with his tournament victory and overtook Rafael Nadal. The Spaniard with an injured foot ended his season prematurely. The Serb Novak Djokovic remains at the top ahead of the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. The second best German is Jan-Lennard Struff in 52nd place, followed by Dominik Köpfer four places behind. Angelique Kerber returned to the top 20 after reaching the semi-finals. The former number one improved from 22nd to 17th place.
August 20: National soccer player Havertz donates for flood victims
National soccer player Kai Havertz donates a six-figure sum for those affected by the flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. According to the “Bild” (Friday), the professional from Chelsea FC is contributing 200,000 euros to the fundraising campaign to support the German Red Cross for the people in the affected areas. In addition, the 22-year-old designed a limited-edition special soccer shoe that is to be auctioned. Havertz was born in Aachen, family and friends still live in this region today. “For me it is important to show the people my support: I grew up in the area. Even if nothing happened to any of my family or friends, I noticed the suffering of the people,” said the DFB national player. “That moved me. That’s why it was important for me to help.”
August 19: Tennis pros Kerber and Zverev in Cincinnati in the quarterfinals
Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and three-time Grand Slam winner Angelique Kerber have made it to the quarter-finals of their tennis tournaments in Cincinnati. The 24-year-old Zverev won his round of 16 against the Argentine Guido Pella 6: 2, 6: 3. The 33-year-old Kerber was previously in the WTA tournament at 4: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5 against the world number 30. Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia successful.
August 19: Gündogan apparently continues to play in the national team
According to consistent media reports, Ilkay Gündogan will also appear for the German national soccer team in the future. According to information from the “Bild” newspaper and the “Sportbuzzer” portal, the midfielder of the English champions Manchester City signaled his willingness to continue in a telephone call with the new national coach Hansi Flick. The 30-year-old is said to have considered ending his career in the DFB team after the round of 16 with the German selection at the last European Championship. Flick told the 49-time national player that he was planning with him. Gündogan then asked for a time to think about it and then promised the successor to Joachim Löw, who was eliminated after the European Championships, it said.
August 18: Champions League on free TV again: highlights on ZDF
Football fans can look forward to the return of the Champions League to free-to-air television. After a three-year break, ZDF is again allowed to show moving images from the most important European Cup this season – however, in addition to the live broadcast of the finals, the second only shows summaries of the match days on late Wednesday evening.
Almost a year after the announcement of the final contract, the public broadcaster confirmed to the German Press Agency that it will show a one-hour program with summaries of the match day for the first time on September 15 at 11 p.m. According to ZDF, long summaries of the games with German participation will be shown on a total of 14 match days under the name “Sportstudio UEFA Champions League”. According to the broadcaster, the program also includes “excerpts and highlights from the other games on Tuesday and Wednesday”. It goes on to say: “Talks, opinions and analyzes round off the concept.”
August 16: DFB sports court: Cup-out for VfL Wolfsburg after substitution error
The Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg was subsequently deprived of its 3-1 victory in the DFB Cup at SC Preußen Münster due to a substitution error. After a hearing in Frankfurt / Main, the sports court of the German Football Association (DFB) granted the regional league’s objection to the evaluation of the first round game. According to the sports court, the game was rated 2-0 for Preußen Münster.
Wolfsburg’s head coach Mark van Bommel substituted a total of six players in the match on August 8 in Münster. The Dutchman made three substitutions during regular time, and three other professionals were added in extra time. According to the DFB statutes, this is not allowed. Accordingly, Admir Mehmedi should no longer have been substituted for Maximilian Philipp.
The Champions League participant was apparently not aware of the relevant provisions of the DFB. Another regulation applied to the European Championship and the Olympic football tournament with six permitted changes in the event of an extension. The decision of the DFB sports court not only paved the way for Preußen Münster to reach the second round of the cup on 26/27. October. At the same time, the judge’s verdict gave the fourth division team a fixed premium of around 257,000 euros.
August 14: Seifert’s successor: Donata Hopfen becomes DFL managing director
Donata Hopfen will succeed Christian Seifert as CEO of the German Football League at the beginning of the new year. As the DFL announced, Seifert will leave the league umbrella organization at the end of December, six months earlier than planned. However, he will still be available to advise his successor if necessary. The 45-year-old Hopfen is moving from a consulting company to the DFL. Before that, she was, among other things, chairwoman of the management board of the “Bild” group at Axel Springer Verlag.
August 11th: 14 players and coaches from Mainz 05 have to be quarantined
Immediately before the start of the new Bundesliga season, FSV Mainz 05 is deeply in the corona chaos. A total of three players and an assistant coach tested positive for the virus, ten other people were quarantined by the health department, as the 05er announced on Wednesday. The club canceled the team training on the advice of the authorities, but in view of the number of acute cases that have recently increased daily, the question also arises: Can the runner-up RB Leipzig be played at all on Sunday (3.30 p.m. / Sky)?
The 05ers continue their PCR tests “daily”. If further cases arise, the game could also be canceled on the first day of the match. “All sick people were immediately placed in quarantine at home. Except for slight symptoms, they are fine,” wrote the Mainz-based company. Among those infected there are also two people who already have full vaccination protection. With the exception of Karim Onisiwo, whose positive case became public on Sunday, names were not mentioned.
August 11th: Rummenigge calls for reform of financial fair play
Former Bayern board member Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has again spoken out in favor of stricter financial controls in European football. “It already exists in the form of Financial Fair Play. It just needs to be adapted and used and demanded more stringently,” said Rummenigge of “Sport Bild”. The 65-year-old sits as a representative of the club association ECA on the Executive Committee of the European Football Union. Stricter rules are an “absolute necessity,” said Rummenigge. “Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin sees it similarly.”
August 11: Bobic joins Common Goal – football should remain a “popular sport”
Hertha Managing Director Fredi Bobic has joined the Common Goal social initiative and has warned against too much technical innovation in football. “I hope it doesn’t get too technical and that many basics and traditional values still remain, that we still have people who really enjoy watching football,” said the former international in a video released on Wednesday. “I just hope that it will remain a popular sport,” said the new sports director of the Berlin Bundesliga club.
August 11th: Schleu pentathlete after riding drama – “Difficult to recover from it”
The modern pentathlete Annika Schleu is considering doing without her social media activities in the future after the riding drama at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. “I’m almost as far as to say that it is more important to me to cope with it mentally than to generate sponsors. I don’t want to have to expose myself to this hatred,” said the 31-year-old in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. “Once you’ve experienced something like me, it’s very difficult to recover from it.” The hatred that she was shown on social media superimposed the disappointment about the missed medal. She felt humiliated by the pictures that showed her crying on the horse.
August 5th: Motorcycle legend Valentino Rossi announces the end of his career
Superstar Valentino Rossi ended his motorcycle career after this season. The 42-year-old Italian announced this on Thursday afternoon at a press conference in Spielberg, Austria. Since the 1996 season Rossi has been a regular rider in the motorcycle world championship, collecting a total of nine world championship titles in four different classes.
His last triumph came in 2009 in the premier class, MotoGP. With a total of 115 Grand Prix victories, Rossi came close to the record of his legendary compatriot Giacomo Agostini (122). In the future, the Italian wants to switch from two to four wheels.
August 3: Corona case at Bremer SV – Cup game against FC Bayern postponed
The shortest path to a title in German professional football usually starts with a nasty stumbling block – but that is also different this time. For long-term champions FC Bayern Munich and his new head coach Julian Nagelsmann, the first title mission does not start at all. The cup opener planned for Friday evening at Bremer SV was postponed by the German Football Association after a corona case became known to the league club. “The background is the officially ordered quarantine measures for the Bremen SV,” said the DFB. The association will “decide as quickly as possible in coordination with both clubs” about rescheduling the game. The draw for the second main round must therefore be postponed.
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