So schauts aus!

Despite outstanding successes and worldwide recognition, the German Football Association (DFB) faces challenges that are primarily due to a lack of willingness to innovate and lengthy decision-making processes. Today, despite the current, outstanding successes of our U17 national team (congratulations at this point on reaching the World Cup final), I would like to take a critical look at the development of children's football and at the aspects that impair the DFB's adaptabil

This post may get a little emotional here and there, but that may be down to my enthusiasm for our nation. I ask your forgiveness for that in advance. …but actually I don't want to! Why should I apologize for emotion when it comes to my fatherland? Perhaps because one or two players wearing our federal eagle on their jersey were missing the passion that a German football fan is entitled to hope for? The match against our guests from Turkey is an excellent case for addressing,

…a bad reputation precedes them, and not without reason. Insanely inflated transfer commissions, virtually no professional qualification required (just €500 deposited with the DFB and an adequate police clearance certificate, and you're in), and many well-known industry figures who publicly demonstrate their poor manners. And if national laws don't suit them, they simply relocate their business to the Netherlands and are able to structure contracts even more in their own favo

How high is the probability of becoming a professional footballer? How high is the probability of becoming a professional footballer? This is certainly a question many talents ask themselves, and the answer — or rather its statistical derivation — should always be viewed critically. "Projections predict the future, provided everything stays the same." (Alexander Eilers, aphorist, born 1976 in Fulda). I definitely want to place this sentence at the very start of my article, be

We all thought that after Sepp Blatter and the QATAR World Cup he initiated, nothing worse could happen. Far from it! #Inferno-Infantino is giving us a new superlative in marketing and, with the approach of the 2030 World Cup in six countries across three continents, is paving the way for Saudi Arabia as the next World Cup host in 2034 (SPORT1 report: Infantino confirms World Cup host). FIFA's declaration of interest regarding the hosting of these two World Cups is a farce an