The 1994 World Cup in the USA

1) Pre-World Cup The tournament once again had a very special event in its prehistory: On 27 May, I became the father of a daughter named Chiara-Pauline. The fact that my marriage was divorced and that my daughter’s mother was another woman named Annette, who already had two children of her own, all of whom…

The 1990 World Cup in Italy

This World Cup in particular has left a deep imprint on my memory. The main reason is that for the first time, if you like, I approached it with a kind of “professional approach”. In retrospect, I would describe it as decidedly amateurish, but the basis had been created. In this case, a numerical basis.…

The 1986 World Cup in Mexico

After my temporary Hamburg gig, I had returned to Berlin. Since I just couldn’t get Britta – or could I? For details, please refer to the amorous chapter “Britta” told elsewhere – in a fit of weakness, I got involved with Ilona. We lived together in the “Hotel Papa”. I also stayed at the university…

The 1982 World Cup in Spain

For this World Cup, too, I think that my memoirs draw attention to a few special features that have not yet been presented in this form. Of course, I hope that the reader’s interest will focus on this attention and such marginal notes or additional reflections on my part. Because simply mentioning “the scandalous match…

The 1978 World Cup in Argentina

Just freshly equipped with the Abitur and then still in a very fresh, but in the meantime firm love affair with Angie, which came about under very special, but nevertheless partly unpleasant circumstances, as they broke up another friendship – with me as the culprit –, the 1978 World Cup was rather just a highly…

The 1974 World Cup in Germany

Now mature and at the age of 15, this World Cup produces far fewer memories than one would expect. The reason might be that at the age of puberty, the opposite sex suddenly exerted a fascination triggered by apparent aloofness? While at previous ages the whole thing seemed quite unproblematic to me and I could…

Preview BL1Spt5 5

Preview of the 5th Bundesliga matchday of the 2009/2010 season from the point of view of the betting market (TV programme, newspaper column) The 4th matchday is over today, Monday 31-08-09. The match pairings for the following match day are of course fixed. This matchday lends itself particularly well to the presentation of the basic…

Dream job football commentator

Becoming a football commentator is really the easiest and at the same time the most beautiful job in the world. You have to fulfil a few important criteria, and then you’re ready to go. I’ll list them briefly here, not without expecting vehement objections and vetoes. 1) No idea about football Seems to me to…

Coach Babbel dismissed

The dismissal of Markus Babbel The fears that one had to have after yesterday’s cup defeat of VfB Stuttgart at SpVgg. Greuther Fürth were confirmed today, 28 October 2009: Markus Babbel has been dismissed as coach. Nowadays, such sad news is commonplace and in no way surprising. I express my regret neither as a fan…