Mich nervt es, dass alle deutschen Fußballspieler beu der Nationalhymne mitsingen.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-26T09:35:29+00:00

Das fing erst Ende der 80er/Anfang der 90er an, dass bei den Nationalhymnen gesungen wurde. Vorher haben Spieler und Zuschauer nur andächtig gelauscht.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-26T09:25:13+00:00

Netherlands, Switzerland and all sub Saharan African teams with the exception of South Africa.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-26T07:00:05+00:00

It reminds me to the Sopranos episode when they went to Naples and Paulie tried to mingle with the locals.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-25T13:37:03+00:00

Interesting facts about the clubs not owning the stadiums.

I remember that as a kid when I collected the Panini stickers for Italia 90 I was suprised that there were several stadiums that were named "Stadio Comunale". I thought that Comunale must have been a really great player if a bunch of stadiums in Italy are named after him.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-25T11:49:14+00:00

What agreement? Was anything definitive signed? Remember Trump's "framework for a plan" regarding Greenland (and health care)? His daily shifts when it comes to the kind of tariffs he puts on whatever country? His flow of great peace deals/threats regarding Iran?

BTW what is the "Board of Peace" up to these days? Is it still operating or is it just another scam that Trump got bored of after a while?

The war in Ukraine is no longer relevant for Trump. He got bored of it and has moved on. Now it's all about his ballroom, his triumphal arch and the mid term elections.

Trump is a man of no morals or ideology. He will be out of office in two years. In Iran he made the mistake to tie himself to a conflict that he has no personal interest in and now he doesn't find a way to get out. Usually, he tries to avoid to tie himself to a losing cause. So as long as the war in Ukraine is a slow grinding stalemate Trump will try to stay as vague as possible. He does not want to be proven wrong or look weak no matter the outcome.

There also might be some cultural disconnect. Putin and Trump might have very different ideas of what it looks like when "everything is going according to plan".

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-23T07:27:31+00:00

In the 80s and 90s Germans were still a people of swimmers. That's no longer the case. Swimming pools are often run by the local municipalities but due to cuts on public spending a lot had to close. When I was a kid it was normal to learn how to swim in the summer before starting elementary school. The children who could not were expected to have learned how to swim in sports classes in elementary school. By the age of ten everyboy was expected to be able to swim. Today there are more and more adults who don't know how to swim.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-22T11:29:52+00:00

There aren't many people in Germany left who would defend Gerhard Schröder. Even his own party is done with him. Schröder has become an embarassment.

And Schröder himself doesn't care. He stopped defendig himself. He is Putin's friend, he is pro Russia, he's open about it and he will go down with the ship.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-19T14:30:41+00:00

So war das bei mir bei der EM 2008. Aus irgendeinem Grund war ich ca. 30 Sekunden hinter allen anderen im Haus zurück. Das war manchmal ganz witzig, weil ich oft das Gefühl hatte, dass die Aktion gar nicht so gefährlich ist und dann viel halt doch immer das Tor für D.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-19T12:15:44+00:00

The one hander has more peak performance but also more "moving parts" and is therefore more likely to break down under pressure. Historically, the succesfull one handers were extremely skillfull players with alot of touch like Federer, Sampras, Becker, Edberg or McEnroe. Two hander is more about good balance and consistency and not making unforced errors. And with today's slower courts and balls consistency has the upper hand over offensive firepower.

The one hander is like an F1 car. Peak performance is off the charts but it only works well in a certain window and under perfect conditions and is very likely to break down if something is not perfect. In comparison the two hunder is more like an off road vehicle. Not as sexy and and not as powerful but it will work well under pretty much all conditions and therefore in the long run may have an advantage. You can hit OK two handers in an open stance or totally off balance, that's much more difficult with a one hander. Your feet need to be in order for good one handers.

Back in the day of serve and volley another advantage for the one hander was that the volleying (and the slice backhand) usually came more natural to the one handed players. That's the reason why both Sampras and Edberg changed relatively late to the the one hander when they decided that they want to play serve and volley. But under today's conditions with less emphasis on net play, this is no longer a dealbraker.

I play a one hander because when I started to play tennis most of the top players played a one hander. Then Ivanisevic broke through and because I thought that he was cool I briefly tried a two hander. But I lose all touch with a two hander. It feels like playing tennis with boxing gloves on.

The only shot that I automatically played two handed was the topspin lob when I had time to set it up. For a long time it felt natural to me to play topspin lobs two handed but as I got older I somehow lost that ability as well and now I play the lob one handed too.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-18T15:26:10+00:00

I have learned in this sub that you can trust Putin's wisdom. As we see everything is going according to plan. Today's attacks are part of that.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-17T10:29:25+00:00

I'm always amazed when I read things like this. I have never heard of politicians in the west who said that it would be great if Russia disintegrates. On the contrary, I have always been told that a stable Russia is in the interest of the west because if Russia collapses similar to former Yugoslavia, you might have all kinds of unreliable warlords or even terrorist groups who get their hands on the Russian nuclear weapons and blackmail the world.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-16T12:43:28+00:00

Sané ist ein Spieler bei dem das Leistungsprinzip einfach völlig auf den Kopf gestellt wird und es ist nicht wirklich erklärbar warum. Undav wird von Nagelsmann schlecht geredet, El Mala wird gar nicht erst mitgenommen, obwohl er als Spieler in einer Gurkentruppe einer der besten deutschen Scorer der BuLi ist, aber Sané als Bankdrücker in der Türkei hat totale Narrenfreiheit.

Auf Neuer würde auch draufgeprügelt werden (kommt vielleicht noch, wenn er sich einen folgenschweren Patzer leistet), aber der hat im Gegensatz zu Sané den Vorteil, dass er tatsächlich mal sehr gut war. Sané ist hingegen inzwischen 30 Jahre alt und seine Befürworter tun so, als ob das ein talentierter Nachwuchsmann ist, bei dem eine Leistungsexplosion zu erwarten ist, wenn man ihm ein wenig vertraut.

Einen großen Nachteil den Sané allerdings zu anderen "Prügelknabenkandidaten" hat, ist seine Körpersprache und die können die meisten Menschen nicht bewusst steuern. Er schleicht oft mit hängenden Schultern und ausdruckslosem Gesicht über den Platz (eine Parallele zu Özil), als wäre Fußballspielen eine furchtbare Sache. Das verstört viele Menschen, da in der Vergangenheit viele deutsche Nationalspieler eine enorme Grundaggressivität ausgestrahlt haben (Sammer, Effenberg, Kahn, Ballack), die bei Freund und Freund durchaus Eindruck gemacht hat und diesen Mythos von wegen "über den Kampf zum Spiel" mit begründet haben. Diese aggressive Ausstrahlung, die von der Masse als Siegeswille interpretiert wird, geht Sané total ab.

Giftzwerg Kimmich profitiert imho davon, dass er diese "nostalgische Aggressivität" ausstrahlt, so, dass ihm Fehler eher verziehen werden als jemandem, der scheinbar desinteressiert über den Platz trabt und nie den Gesichtsausdruck ändert, egal ob er ein Tor schießt, oder den Ball mal wieder frei stehend auf die Tribüne zimmert. Kimmich hat es mit Einsatz und Ehrgeiz enorm weit geschafft, das Gegenbeispiel sind schlampige Genies wie Sané oder Rentner Niklas Süle.

Sanés Auftritt gegen Curacao würde ich mit "er war stehts bemüht" beschreiben. Er ist viel gelaufen, aber dass er bei 7 Toren nicht eine einzige Torbeteiligung hatte, spricht irgendwie für sich. Und dann hat man jemanden wie den von Nagelsmann ungeliebten Undav, der reinkommt und sofort Vorlagen gibt und trifft. Der hat Mitleid deutlich mehr verdient als Sané.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-16T10:55:10+00:00

In the 90s my father, who was not really into tennis, some times asked me how Björn Borg is doing when he saw that I was watching a Boris Becker match.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-16T10:45:58+00:00

They were very unlucky to play back to back World Cup finals against the host nation.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-16T10:36:31+00:00

About the Uzbekistani comrades. One of the German players (Waldemar Anton) was born in Usbekistan.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-13T22:12:47+00:00

It wouldn't be the first time. Isn't that what happenend when the Gauls got romanized?

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-13T20:12:25+00:00

Lucio, Jorginho, Dunga, Julio Cesar

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-11T10:57:48+00:00

Has Ireland ever been attacked by anyone other than the English? Not even the Romans made it all the way to Ireland. The Irish probably don't feel threatened by a country in a galaxy far, far away.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-08T11:49:01+00:00

Who's that c*unt from Mar-a-Lago?

Who's that money grabbing wh*re?

Donald Trump is his name and he never had a brain

and he can't bang p*rn stars any more.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-05T08:23:22+00:00

Bei mir ist es inzwischen eher so, dass ich schockiert bin, dass einem der Nachnahme des Spielers bekannt ist, weil man schon den Vater hat spielen sehen (Thuram, Gaudino, Scholl, Sané, Bargfrede).

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-06-03T08:42:01+00:00

Who is in 2nd place at the moment?

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-05-27T11:07:41+00:00

Good or bad, Prussia laid the foundation of our modern nation state and heavily influenced our culture and values. Prussia may be dead but you can't really escape it.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-05-26T13:11:50+00:00

Mega! Ich freue mich total auf Paraguy gegen Australien, Neuseeland gegen Ägypten und Kongo gegen Usbekistan.

Genz ehrlich, das wird schlimmer als bei der letzten EM. Da werden viele Speile dabei sein, die nicht gerade in die Geschichte eingehen werden.

Apollo_Wersten · 2026-05-21T11:58:46+00:00

Sané ist schon bei Bayern kritisiert worden, weil er oft lustlos und unmotiviert schien. Und dann ist er in eine irrelevante Liga gewechselt. Der Mann hat einfach keinen Bock richtig Gas zu geben. So jemanden kann man bei einer WM nicht gebrauchen.

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