KShortly after the final whistle there was another knock on Maria Dornescu’s dressing room door: “Can I have your number or will I get a yellow card?” a player wants to know. Without a subsequent warning, but also without a new address book entry, he retreats shortly thereafter. The question for the cell phone number was preceded by 90 minutes in which Mari Dornescu was the game-determining person on the pitch – and that without touching the ball. She received three yellow cards, was ruled offside five times, penalized around 20 fouls and covered 8.4 kilometers.
The roles are distributed on the 18th matchday in the men’s football district league A: The Roßdorf II game association welcomes SV Wolfgang. Fourteenth versus fifth, promoted versus relegated. It’s one of the charming peculiarities of the district league that an hour before kick-off it’s not completely clear whether Dornescu will even start the game. Together with the opposing team, she waits for the home team, who arrives late and, to everyone’s delight, contributes the keys to the cabins and the clubhouse. When Dornescu led the 22 players to the floodlit game on the artificial turf pitch in Niederissigheim near Hanau, there was no Champions League anthem, but there was benevolent applause from around 40 spectators
