Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Women and football: "If one national team is laughing, no more"

In the stands, only the cigarette butts tight fans can be found from the last championship game. Not a great atmosphere in the Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion. No singing, no cheering. And yet let the construction workers who miss the Babelsberg Arena just a new coat of paint, for a moment their devices are left, as two women enter the field.

The one, Lilly Andres, world champion in table soccer. The other, Anja Mittag, World Champion with the German national soccer team striker, and with Master Turbine Potsdam. Two women, successful in traditional male domains - how to do that, we asked ourselves and the two asked for an interview.

Daily Soccer Buzz: When did you get for the last time a really stupid saying of a man, make for what you? Andres Lilly: That always happens. Once a man said to me: ". Für'n girls are not you are bad" So I then said: "Blind Leading The boys are you pretty bad." Anja Mittag: I hear something like that any more.

Andres: If you are national team plays, laughs and no more. Daily Soccer Buzz: And before? Lunch: Well, when you used to play against guys, then they said: "Iiieh, look, 'n girls. Later it was said then: "Oh, yes but what is the" Soccer Daily Buzz: How did you start with the football? Lunch: For me it was like this: Whenever someone was missing, I was able to step in.

We played in the yard, staked out the doors with clothes poles, but there were other places. Football has given me just fun. And then I started in the club. There were just boys and me. At the age of ten years makes a yet. I was in the storm and in the midfield. Andres: As a little girl I played a little football, with four, five guys from the neighborhood in our garden.

Since I have been but only in the goal. Daily Soccer Buzz: The worst must be the goal? Andres: No, I felt most comfortable in goal, because I have not had much to do with the ball. Later, I played hockey for ten years. Then they split up my club and I wanted to try something new. Since football was there.

It would have been something for me, I like team sports very much, but my ball control was difficult. Finally, I've done everything in hockey for years with his hands. The feet had to be, if possible, take out of the way because you're not allowed to touch the ball with his feet. When did you start with football? Lunch: With six.

Daily Soccer Buzz: What's your training day like today? Lunch: Afternoon we practice passing and scoring, many fun things in the morning weight training and sprint. Daily Buzz Soccer: Play soccer women differently than men? Lunch: Generally, the women's soccer slow. We lack the fire power, to the speed.

This is not by nature given to us. Technically, we can just show attractive football as the men. Daily Soccer Buzz: Are you a knitter? Lunch: The one on ones I do not like so much. Daily Soccer Buzz: And you, Mrs. Andres: You play on the rebound? Andres: These are not tricks. This is a normal shooting technique, using the 80 percent of table soccer.

There are tricks with table football, which are just for show. Gallery shots that you would make but in the real game ever. Since it takes but a lot of dexterity and lots of practice. With so what I am working non stop. Daily Soccer Buzz: So you are not a fair player? Andres: People say that I still have too much of a good player in me.

Playing table football but you have to just play in single dirty to win. Daily Soccer Buzz: How does one play dirty? Andres: It's hard to explain. The moment where I play a through ball clean and there make a clean shot, that's a good game. In singles, it is also a question if the opponent is not yet back on the bars, just punch it forcibly, and sometimes take the easy goal.

This falls under dirty. Daily Soccer Buzz: Could you begin with the words beautiful and dirty what? Lunch: This is not as familiar with us. Dirty indeed is already one that is strong and aggressive fighting spirit is in the duels. Daily Soccer Buzz: If fouled in the women less? Lunch: I think so.

There is also with us a few swallows, and this theatrical. It's a bit more civilized. There are also unpleasant against players who give to one times one. Daily Soccer Buzz: Are there expressions and hearty as the men? Lunch: I do not know what spells fall for men. Daily Soccer Buzz: If on a German women's soccer field already fallen ever words like stupid cow? Lunch: Definitely.

Daily Soccer Buzz: Stupid goat? Lunch: Maybe. We go to a pub in the Student Cultural Center in downtown Potsdam. Daily Soccer Buzz: Welcome to the pub, dear readers, back there in the corner is the football table. yes is a relatively classic place for such a set, would now only be a little smoky ...

Andres Now wait a bit. We have a proper training center in Berlin with ten tables, because it is smoke free, alcohol-free, everything. There's nothing left to the back room or something. Daily Soccer Buzz: Play as table soccer, women's lunch? Lunch: Yes, from time to time at parties. Not really.

Daily Soccer Buzz: Is it possible to play table football foul anyway? Andres: You bet. It's often ruthless enough. As with the rods is so hard to cut the table until he wobbles. Daily Soccer Buzz: If you also look under the table? Andres: No, as far as It Gets then. They are more technical things.

Boost the way, is really banned, not just frowned upon. Daily Soccer Buzz: How much is the table football psychology? It is indeed the enemy across the street. In tennis or in boxing, it means that all games and battles have been lost already in the cabin. Andres: What is clear is that important.

Once in the game if I change the tempo, for example, to confuse the enemy. Or you tried it with words. If I know that the opponents at match point is rather weak nerves, you can have even a "This is really important now 'button. The other side is the added pressure. In general, it is at the table, of course, always about how to present themselves.

You must always face: I'm big, I am strong. Daily Soccer Buzz: Keyword Print: Ever since Oliver Kahn, this is a football buzzword. Do you feel pressure, women lunch? Lunch: Yeah. First and foremost, he is making himself why I wanted to win at all costs or score a goal. Daily Soccer Buzz: What do you do when you lose? Then connect as before Jürgen Klinsmann in a ton? Lunch (laughs): No, you are angry, but then you talk about it, analyzed.

Perhaps women are better than men. Although the cabin is a very quiet place after a defeat. Andres: It depends on how you lose. The opponent was better, which can be accepted more easily than if you just played badly. I already had phases where I hit the wall, I was so mad. It is the most emotional game I know, so we shouted out the frustration sometimes.

Daily Soccer Buzz: What were your best goals? Lunch: A league match against Duisburg. We have a 2-0 set back. Since I have taken off just past the center line, which was 1:2. Then I shot even second goal to the final score 2-2. Andres: The facilitative goal was 2009 when we played in the Nations Cup against the United States.

It was very close, we were 2-0 behind. So we had lost two singles, the third individual we could not lose, otherwise we would have had no chance. I felt relatively well, but really good I was not. In such games is always terribly high amount of pressure. It took forever, we played one and three quarters of an hour against each other.

Finally, it was 7:7, the next ball was the decisive factor. I can not remember how he went inside. It was certainly not a good goal. But you can not imagine what was happening then. I'm just folded up only, was completely at the end of my tether. The coach fell to his knees and cheered.

Daily Soccer Buzz: In the men's football, there are quite classic country allocations, the Brazilians are regarded as artistic, it must look neat, the Italians pushed all the time around the back and playing defense, the English play forward, the Germans are defending strongly and combative.

Is there such a thing for women, too? Lunch: Yes, but not the same. The Italians, for example, are uncomfortable against players who fight with all means. The Scandinavians play very fair. The U.S. is very athletic, they are one of the most difficult opponent at all, ten times better against the Italians.

North Korea is unpredictable, you do not know what goes where behind the doors. They are as zero to a hundred. Andres: We have other countries, other tables. And at other tables to play sometimes other techniques. They are different characters, different game fields, other balls. But there are also countries that have been dear and which, against which one does not play so much.

Belgium, for example, unpleasant, they are all, say, fighting machines. The never give up, they are like bull terriers, the bite firmly. Daily Soccer Buzz: Play table football for men on average better than women? Andres: Hard to say. There are very few women play along properly with the men.

The least-are nearly at the high level. The proportion of women in the kickers is only five percent. Daily Soccer Buzz: It is now being discussed so much about women in leadership positions, it is actually sometimes be women who train the men? Lunch: In the youth level, I can imagine it.

But in the first or second division, I think not. Since lack of respect. Although women may have the tactical understanding and intelligence to lead a team. Andres: in the table football, it is also inconceivable. Daily Soccer Buzz: Do you have an explanation for why men would not listen in the first and second division of a woman? Lunch, would you listen to a woman? Daily Soccer Buzz: I've worked a lot with women.

Lunch: I think it is a male domain. The men's soccer has a long tradition, because the women are lagging behind. As the men say, what to tell me because that will wash clothes. Daily Soccer Buzz: Sleep in really football sheets? Andres: My blue is green and comes from Ikea. Lunch: Mine is also from Ikea.

Daily Soccer Buzz: Mrs. Andres, can you give Anja Mittag tip one more for the coming World Cup? Else: profits.

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