Wolfgang Petry: Hidden Message in ARD Show Revealed

EM 2025

Before the opening game of the German national team against Poland at the European Championship, the ARD revealed the last secrets from the German cabin.

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Wolfgang Petry has been part of the German national team since his appearance in the preparatory camp in Herzogenaurach.

“It is no secret that he was with us in the camp that we had a very good time together, that one or the other song was sung together and that above all this’ fall in love, forgot, forgotten, forgive, have already worn through the past few months,” said captain Giulia Gwinn on Tuesday.

Because on Friday the 73-year-old brought out a version of his hits “in love, lost, forgotten, forgive” together with the DFB women. It is the “Team anthem 2025” for the final round in Switzerland.

Now the musician icon was not personally in the stadium in St. Gallen before the first group game of the German women, but it will be mentally present for all players over the entire tournament.

DFB women with Wolfgang-Petry motto towards the EM title

ARD reporter Lea Wagner was allowed to give the DFB team and a last insight before the players arrived at the stadium before the game started. A special feature compared to the men: there are no shoes in the cabin. The players bring them themselves to the stadium, while men are solely responsible for footwear.

And then there were certain things that the ARD team was not allowed to film. This included, for example, the mourning floral tongues for the late Liverpool professional Diogo Jota. According to Wagner, showing that there is too many evidence of who is in the starting eleven. A fact that the DFB did not want to betray.

And another special feature of the ARD reporter, which she was not able to show but was allowed to describe.

She said: “It hangs a huge jersey with Wolfgang Petry with a speech bubble with his song” completely or not at all “. All players would have signed this and wrote a message under their own name. “There are words like passion or love. Things that the players want to bring into the team,” explains Lea Wagner.

Accordingly, the kickers regularly hear songs from Petry after international matches on the bus. With the surprise appearance of the pop singer, the team also wanted to thank the supervisors and thank the coaches.

In the ARD interview, DFB tool keeper Steve Smith admitted that the supervisor: interior team always hears “80s and 90s rock” when setting up the cabin and not Wolfgang Petry. There are also four songs that the players wanted who run when they enter the cabin.

(with material from dpa)