compensation for the, what you should be as a professional football player is capable of are immense. Money, much money, in some cases-exorbitant sums of Hiking on a monthly basis to the accounts of the best players. Add to that the Prestige and celebrity, the with this society exposed the profession to go hand in hand.
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to test This can seem tempting and temptation to be confirmation for the own actions and for not a few also adequate compensation for what you have to be in turn ready to give up. Privacy, for example, or the possibility, for a brief Moment, shorter not longer stand up, perhaps if the body or the head does not want any more. Finally, professional football is a performance-oriented profession. And a rating of only one thing: the performance is measured often.
so, If a player like Ron-Robert Zieler, after all, a former German national goalkeeper and 2014 world champion’s Triumph in the DFB-selection in Brazil, as the second substitute goalkeeper in the second division a season not playing, which was quite as good, as you might have hoped for, and at Hannover 96, then it is only understandable that there are being discussed. Internal, confidential, as is customary in professional football in the “Business”. That now, however, club patron Martin child expresses in Public discrediting the 31-year-old Zieler, him a change is recommended, him, de facto, the necessary level of performance, denying and even said, in his opinion, you shouldn’t have Zieler commit only “nothing”, then this is more than amazing.
Respect required
Finally, a child speaks as the majority shareholder for the club, the depression of a sick goalkeeper Robert Enke ten years ago the life took. The players Alliance to BVB defender Mats Hummels ruled this way: “‘I am deeply affected,’ said Martin child, some time ago in memory of the suicide of Robert Enke, in order to discredit Ron-Robert Zieler open to the public. Without a minimum level of decency, respect and professionalism.“
The merger, wants to be understood as a common voice of many German football experts, goes even further and calls to law: Between the player and the club dealing with differences should be “respectful and appreciative”. In spite of the immense remuneration in the “Business” of professional football, so. That it needs such a corrective to the statements Child, shows how wrong you are directed actually were. It also shows that professional football players are not alone in such a difficult Situation. That there are colleagues that stand behind and stand for. And that is a good thing.
