Bei der EM im Tor? Marc-André ter Stegen © Sergio Ruiz/imago images
In the last episode of He can kick This year the two hosts are dedicating themselves to goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen. 2024 could be the year in which he plays his first tournament as a regular goalkeeper for the national team. Could. Because Manuel Neuer is back and wants to get back in goal for the DFB. Oliver Fritsch and Christian Spiller – unusually weak of opinion – do not want to decide who will win the latest edition of the eternal German duel for number 1.
What they are sure about in the ZEIT ONLINE football podcast: Ter Stegen is a first-class goalkeeper. “Better with the ball at my feet than Neuer,” says Fritsch. He also has outstanding reflexes. “The limbs are just flying around,” says Spiller.
The hosts have a dispute over the question of whether the goalkeeper benefits from playing outside Germany or whether it harms him. Oliver Fritsch is at least sure that Ter Stegen is in the right place in Barcelona because his style of play suits that of Barca.
However, the two hosts with Ter Stegen miss one of the main characteristics of German goalkeepers: craziness. “He is therefore an un-German goalkeeper,” says Fritsch. Also because he lives more from his suppleness than his physicality.
Also in the episode: Mr. X is back. And which goalkeepers from the former GDR make it into the top five?
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In the last episode of He can kick This year the two hosts are dedicating themselves to goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen. 2024 could be the year in which he plays his first tournament as a regular goalkeeper for the national team. Could. Because Manuel Neuer is back and wants to get back in goal for the DFB. Oliver Fritsch and Christian Spiller – unusually weak of opinion – do not want to decide who will win the latest edition of the eternal German duel for number 1.
What they are sure about in the ZEIT ONLINE football podcast: Ter Stegen is a first-class goalkeeper. “Better with the ball at my feet than Neuer,” says Fritsch. He also has outstanding reflexes. “The limbs are just flying around,” says Spiller.
