Category: Sport

Gerhard deininger was head coach of the FC wacker haig soccer team for over 23 years. The 68-year-old himself played more than 1,000 compulsory soccer games for his FC wacker haig in various classes. He remembers well when, in 1976, the team lost 3:2 to the VFL frohnlach for promotion to the district league. Deininger played in the first team as a 17-year-old and still in the old league at the age of over 50. He was involved in the construction of the sports field as well as the sports home in the early 1970s.
Now, as a fubball resting place, he built and installed a bench himself, and it could not be painted in anything other than the club colors black and female, he laughs as he proudly presents the bench behind a gate. And yet he is anything but a restless person. To this day, he is the musical director of the heimat-trachtenverein, of which he was a founding member in 1969 and is an honorary member today. He was also one of the initiators of the creation of the "haache stockraache" and also leads this aubergewohnliche folk music group today still and accompanies the singing group with accordion. And he also made a name for himself as a solo entertainer as a "gray wolf" a name.
He will visit the bench more often, not only during football games, but simply to relax and enjoy the beauty of the sports facilities, the adjacent playground and the beauty of the landscape around haig. "As long as I am not sitting here, the bench can of course be used by other hikers or rest seekers, only when I come, I want to have my bench for myself", he says with a laugh.

To write something about werner hansch is difficult. Werner hansch must be heard. The man has a voice that you do not forget. One that has burned in many football fans, as a background for certain pictures. Schalke’s UEFA cup triumph in milan’s san siro stadium in 1997, borussia dortmund’s golden nineties of the last millennium, BVB’s two championship titles under ottmar hitzfeld. That was his rough time. Hansch was a television reporter for sat.1 for the jubilation. He was the voice of the ruhrpot back then.

Today, the sports reporter is 74 years old and retired, or at least that’s pretty much the case. He hardly ever appears on television. But he is still known, hansch. Also here in rottendorf, where he came on invitation of the SPD local association. Nevertheless it did not become particularly full. About 30 people have come to be entertained by the man with the familiar voice and the chummy ruhrpott idiom. He can still do that quite well. He is the reporter who – and this is no exaggeration – was the first to use the expression "awesome" in a sports broadcast. The first "awesome goal", told hansch in rottendorf, fell in nurnberg. It was scored – what a coincidence – by the current coach of greuther furth mike buskens (hansch: "a wonderful person") for schalke against the club by aubenrist. "What a cool gate. I don’t think I’ve ever expressed the genius of a moment more aptly," he still says today.

After the lesson against fearful opponents lithuania, dennis schroder& co. Straight into the eighth finals. Despite clearly missing out on a group victory at the european championships, the german basketball team is confident of making it to the final.O.-duel with france to start in istanbul.

"It’s naturally annoying that we didn’t get first place," said schroder after the 72:89 loss to co-favorite lithuania in tel aviv. "But it’s definitely a success that we’re coming to istanbul. Whoever plays harder there, whoever plays better every possession, whoever fights better on defense, has the better chances – and that’s what we want to be."

The open-air swimming pool in ebern is rustet for the coming swimming season. The building committee of the city council of ebern was convinced of this in its meeting on wednesday evening. Pool attendant klaus hanke informed the board during a site inspection. The construction site at the former vocational school between mozart- and albrecht-durer-strabe was also inspected.

"Preliminary work and the winterization of our outdoor pool have been completed to a large extent", said mayor jurgen hennemann (SPD) and continued: "we can be proud of our now 49 year old outdoor pool, it is still in very good shape." However, one must tremble that no rough investments become necessary. "We can’t afford a comprehensive renovation at the moment", so the mayor.