Footballers in the great outdoors: Into the Wild
Barefoot. Pants rolled up. My gaze lost in the dunes. Werder Bremen coach Thomas Schaaf wants to finally come clean: Yes, it was me who, for years, drunkenly collapsed into the dunes in a shabby trench coat for a beer manufacturer!
Oliver Kahn, wearing a dazzling German national team one-piece, trots off to his morning altitude training in the Andes. Naturally, without an oxygen tank or long underwear. If it weren't for the stupid photographers, the titan would complete the glacier training sessions naked, but okay.
Marcelinho is disappointed and horrified: This forest has neither a hair salon with specialists for absolutely disastrous hairstyles nor a decent samba bar. Stunned, the Brazilian jogs himself into a coma to escape the gruesome present.
Holy crap, in the heat of the Bundesliga battle, Kevin Kuranyi has once again forgotten Mother's Day, his wedding anniversary, and the birthdays of all his female family members. Like a beaten dog, the VfB star jogs through the nearby flower field, thinking about a suitable reconciliation gift.
Because it was so beautiful, here's another photo: Admiral Thomas Schaaf is searching for the buried gold treasure of his predecessor, "Fingerpfeifer" Rehhagel. If only the villain Captain Aad hadn't gotten there first?
A little man stands in the forest, completely still...and with such a bad haircut! Franck Ribery, pictured here in 2005, proves that he used to look even funnier. At least the background reminds us of those blissful, hours-long portrait sessions in kindergarten, when a miserable photographer first stacked up dead tree trunks and then shot the howling, snot-covered slobbers.
Giovane Elber has done it again: While his colleagues are struggling with complicated bonus agreements, transfer savvy Elber has secured the lease on a beautiful piece of land in his new contract. The Alps now belong to a Brazilian!
This man was a world champion, a celebrated star of his era, one of the first European heroes in Japanese football – and yet every photo with Pierre Littbarski looks so incredibly sad. PS: Are those weeping willows in the background?
Who hasn't experienced this? A little picnic in the city park and suddenly Ailton rides by to tell a few jokes from the jungle camp (the one in Gelsenkirchen).
Paule Beinlich, a real man. The outdoorsman uses every minute he's not playing to drive his Jeep into the endless expanses of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The legendary city of Magdeburg is said to have once stood on this spot!
Three questions: 1.) Why is Michael Preetz allowed to wear this imitation leather jacket when the UN banned it in 1988? 2.) What is the jacket, aka Michael Preetz, leaning on?
3.) What is there to grin about?
A Man in a Clearing. The Sat.1 film starring Dragoslav Stepanovic.
Impressive scenes in the heart of the Black Forest. What can nowadays only be seen at Berlin's main intersections or on the lawns of alternative student towns is depicted here by Jupp Heynckes in consummate perfection.
Charly Körbel ponders. This oak tree is said to have played 603 Bundesliga games. Chainsaw or torch it? Old Charly isn't so sure yet.
Admittedly, Thomas Helmer struck a cool pose there. The only question that remains is: why and why here? In the middle of the forest? Showing off in front of squirrels and forestry workers?
Werner Lorant is in despair. His favorite cigarette must have fallen on the floor right here. Together with lawyer Christoph Schickhardt, the grey angel sets out to find it.
Unemployment naturally pisses off someone like Christoph Daum in the long run. Desperate, the star coach, dressed in his workout clothes, headed for the nearby forest. Now he's trying to restore some aging oak trees.
In 1986, a tragic accident during Hannover 96's team photo shoot almost caused a catastrophe when a careless team actually gathered entirely on one side of a rotten ship and even posed provocatively within reach of extremely aggressive swans.
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