Euro 2024, held in Germany produced many great moments of sportsmanship. Here’s our Top 5 (in reverse order). 5th Georgian shakes hands with Portuguese before celebrating The 2024 European championships in Germany has produced some shocks but none more so than when Georgia beat Portugal 2-0 in the group stage. Then, that special … Read more
Jurgen Klopp changed football….. for the better. Just like Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger who previously raised professional British football performance standards, Klopp also changed British football, with something extra. Love. Yes, love, warmth, humanity, Jurgen Klopp’s smile lit up football stadia, TV screens and homes all over the world. He started walking onto the pitch after … Read more
Watch each of the following Top 10 Sportsmanship Moments from the Bundesliga (German League) from 2010 to 2019. Can you see which particular aspect of sportsmanship is shown in each story? The key sportsmanship components are hidden in the acronym HHEFFR. Honesty, Humour, Enjoyment, Fun, Friendship, Fairplay, Respect An acronym is made up from the … Read more
Crossword Puzzle 1 Nothing Is Impossible Ludwig Gutman was a German refugee who fled to England during the Second World War (1939-1945). He was also a doctor. He did not accept that wounded soldiers should lie in bed, get bed sores, start smelling and eventually rot and die a painful death. He got them out … Read more
Magnificent! Absolutely magnificent. We salute you Dortmund FC (the ‘Yellow Wall’ on the top right hand photograph) and all the other German clubs who have opened their doors to the less fortunate. Can anyone please tell us who are the other clubs? More: German football fans welcome refugees
Part 1 covered sportsmanship moments number 10 to moment number 6 which included brave little Bradley Lowery, Joe Hart, French rugby and German football fans opening their homes to opposition fans, a subtle, yet magical moment in the US Masters between a Spaniard and an Englishman and a US Baseball moment. Now we’re going to reveal … Read more
When Austria’s Lisa Theresa Hauser broke Germany’s Vanessa Hinz’s ski pole (by accidentally stepping on it during the intense race), Hauser handed her surprised German opponent her ski-pole. Watch this video. Cross-country ski poles are very light, and therefore very fragile, particularly, if they are hit from the side. At major events like the World … Read more
In part 1 we covered the 10th best to the 6th bets sportsmanship moments which included tennis, ice-hockey, boxing, weightlifting and athletics. Now we announce the Top 5, starting with football…. 5. A Sombre Yet Beautiful Football Moment And it’s not World Cup 2014 (which had so many wonderful moments of sportsmanship like Ghana’s goal … Read more
What a World Cup it’s been. Shocks, sensations, revelations, great football mixed with the odd fear packed paranoid game, some crazy behaviour, wonderful goals, great celebrations, great fun, great fans, – some of whom were literally out of this world and lots of great sportsmanship. Sit back relax and enjoy some of the great moments … Read more
Some wonderful sportsmanship moments from Sochi 2014. © Photos courtesy of Sochi2014 Press Office Here’s some beautiful moments: Old Enemies, Russia & Germany, Become Lifelong Friends When the Germans team’s ski grinding machine broke, the Russian team stepped in and gave the Germans the Russian machine and worked through the night so the … Read more