Basketball, national team: Former Bundesliga coach Gordon Herbert will be the new national basketball coach. The 62-year-old Canadian succeeds Henrik Rödl, whose four-year term ended at the end of August. “Gordon knows many players, has trained many players and has an extraordinary international reputation that fits perfectly and well with basketball in Germany,” said Ingo Weiss, President of the German Basketball Association, at the presentation on Monday in Hagen.
Herbert was most recently assistant coach of the Canadian national team, last season he worked as a club coach for the Russian club Avtodor from Saratov. In his long career he trained in Germany s.Oliver Würzburg, Alba Berlin and several times the Skyliners from Frankfurt. He had suspended his coaching contract with Hessen from March 2019 to look after his home country at the World Cup in China, among other things.
He is supposed to lead the German team around leader Dennis Schröder to the home European championships next year with the preliminary round in Cologne and the final round in Berlin. In addition, qualification for the 2023 World Cup in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines and, associated with that, for the 2024 Olympics in Paris is pending for the DBB selection. At the Summer Games in Tokyo, the German national team was back at the Olympics for the first time since 2008 and eliminated in the quarter-finals against European champions Slovenia.
Tennis, US Open: Peter Gojowczyk’s impressive run is over: the 32-year-old from Munich lost to the 14-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday evening (local time) in a contested round of 16 in New York 7: 5, 1: 6, 7: 5, 2: 6, 0: 6th While Gojowczyk missed his first place in the top eight at a Grand Slam tournament, Alcaraz continues to cause a stir: The 18-year-old is the youngest quarter-finalist in Flushing Meadows since professional tennis was introduced in 1968. Gojowczyk qualified as a qualifier Tournament and then with victories over Ugo Humbert (France / No. 23), Dusan Lajovic (Serbia) and Henri Laaksonen (Switzerland) contributed to the fact that for the first time since Wimbledon 1997 three German professionals made it into the second round in a major. On Monday, Germany’s number one Alexander Zverev (6:00 p.m. CEST / Eurosport) and Cologne’s Oscar Otte (around 10:00 p.m.) still have a chance at the quarter-finals against the strong Italians Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini.
Soccer, Netherlands: Mario Götze has extended his contract with the Dutch football club PSV Eindhoven until 2024. The club announced on Monday. The former Bundesliga professional moved to the honor division in 2020 after his contract expired in Dortmund. The 29-year-old has since appeared in 35 games in Eindhoven, scoring ten goals. Most recently, however, he missed entry into the Champions League with PSV. “I am happy with what I found here,” Götze was quoted as saying in the club’s announcement. “The story goes on. We still have some tasks to do,” wrote Götze on Twitter. In addition to the midfielder, his compatriot Philipp Max also plays for Eindhoven. The team is being trained by former Leverkusen coach Roger Schmidt. As the club wrote, clubs from the Champions League were also interested in Götze shortly before the end of the transfer window. The winning goal scorer from the 2014 World Cup final against Argentina had decided to stay. His original contract would have expired in 2022.
Football, World Cup qualification: European champion Italy has set a world record. Due to the 0-0 in the World Cup qualifier in Switzerland, the “Squadra Azzurra” remained unbeaten for the 36th time in a row on Sunday evening, although Jorginho missed a penalty (53rd). In Group C, Italy leads with eleven points in front of the Swiss, who have seven points. Group opponents Bulgaria scored their first victory in a 1-0 (0-0) win against Lithuania. England, however, continues to hold itself harmless. In the 4-0 (1-0) win against Andorra, the second place in the European Championship only lived up to his role as a favorite in the final minutes, because the 156th in the world rankings held against it as much as he could. With five wins from five games, the “Three Lions” lead Group I, Andorra is penultimate with three points.
Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham made his debut in the starting line-up for England. The 18-year-old got involved again and again, but he was not involved in the goals of Jesse Lingard (18th / 78th), Harry Kane (72nd / penalty) and Bukayo Saka (85th). Group opponents Albania defeated Hungary 1-0 (0-0) and climbed to third place. Poland could rely on Robert Lewandowski from FC Bayern Munich. The striker scored twice in the befitting 7-1 win in San Marino. His teammate Adam Buksa even scored three times. Belgium also solved their task with a 3-0 home win against the second Czech Republic. Wales had already secured third place in Group E thanks to a three-pack from Gareth Bale. The 3-2 win in Belarus resulted in a total of three penalties. Bale converted twice, on the other side Vitali Lisakovich scored from the point. Spain had no problems in the 4-0 win against Georgia and Kosovo kept a point in the 1-1 draw against Greece because Vedat Muriqi equalized in stoppage time.
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