Sports Day ntv.de – December 30, 2025

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NBA superstar Jokic receives diagnosis after knee injury

Basketball star Nikola Jokic will be missing from the Denver Nuggets for weeks – but the worst fears have not been confirmed after the Serb’s injury. The three-time MVP of the North American professional league NBA suffered in the game against the Miami Heat (123:147). “just” hyperextension of the left knee. The franchise announced that Jokic will be examined again in four weeks.

The star player collided with teammate Spencer Jones, who stepped on his foot while running back. Jokic went to the ground, immediately held his left knee and never returned to the field.

Before the injury, Jokic, currently the best player in the world for many experts, had scored 21 points. The 30-year-old would be out for four weeks Miss about 16 games. He could return before the All-Star Game in February. The Nuggets are third in the West and are clearly on course for the play-offs.

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Serious allegations against Patriots star

NFL star Stefon Diggs from the New England Patriots faces, among other things, the accusation of serious bodily harm by strangulation exposed. According to police in Dedham, Massachusetts, the incident in question occurred at the beginning of December, as American media consistently reported. The allegations became known after a court hearing.

Diggs “categorically” denies all allegations, according to an email from his attorney David Meieras reported by the AP news agency, among others. The football professional’s lawyer described the allegations as unfounded and unconfirmed. “The timing and motive for the allegations are crystal clear: They are the direct result of a financial dispute between employee and employer that was not resolved to the employee’s satisfaction,” Meier continued. He did not give any further details.

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Sven Mislintat makes his first transfer

Fortuna Düsseldorf has completed the first transfer under the leadership of the new sports director Sven Mislintat. As the second division football team announced, it is changing Japanese international Satoshi Tanaka from the first division club Sanfrecce Hiroshima to the Rhine. The 23-year-old midfielder signed a contract until June 30, 2030.

Fortuna is convinced that Tanaka will be a quick asset and “also has great development potential,” said Mislintat. With Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Tanaka celebrated winning the Japanese Super Cup and the Japanese League Cup; he played 47 games. He made his debut for the Japanese national team in July 2025. There is no family relationship to Düsseldorf’s former midfielder Ao Tanaka.

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Back home: Kirkelökke leaves Flensburg

Handball Bundesliga team SG Flensburg-Handewitt and backcourt player Niclas Kirkelökke will go their separate ways from summer 2027. As the club announced, the expiring contract with the Danish Olympic champion and world champion will not be extended. According to this, “both parties came to the common conclusion that the time for a sporting change had come.” The 31-year-old says he wants to return home.

Kirkelökke explained that he had decided to return to Denmark after the end of his contract: “It’s important to me to be closer to my family again and to be able to spend more time with them.” Until then, his full focus will be on Flensburg.

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FC Bayern brings Imade back

The German double winner Bayern Munich is bringing striker Edna Imade back early. As the club announced on Tuesday, the 25-year-old will be joining the Munich team during the winter training camp (January 9th to 16th). Imade, who moved to Bayern from FC Granada last summer, was originally loaned out to Real Sociedad San Sebastián until the end of the season.

In the current season, the offensive player scored eight goals in eleven league games and is now in third place on the top scorer list. In November she made her debut for the Spanish national team in the Nations League final against Germany.

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Minister to football fans: We will not accept pyrotechnics

Before the World Cup in 2026, Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens is making an appeal to football fans for security and order. “I expect football fans to continue to express their support for their clubs peacefully, respectfully and in accordance with the applicable legal system in 2026,” the SPD politician told the German Press Agency.

Most fans stuck to it. However, a small minority repeatedly uses football for violence, attacks on the police and the use of pyrotechnics. “We cannot and will not accept this behavior.” Behrens said she saw no conflict between police, politicians and “the overwhelming majority of football fans.” However, tensions arise where individual groups in the organized fan scene disregard the rules. At the end of the year, football fans nationwide protested for weeks against a possible tightening of security measures in and around stadiums.

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England coach is knighted

Sarina Wiegman receives a knighthood for her success as coach of the England women’s national football team. This emerges from the British list of New Year’s honors.

Under the 56-year-old Dutchwoman Wiegman, the English women won the European Championships in 2025 and 2022 and were runners-up in the world championships in 2023. In the final, the Lionesses had to admit defeat to the Spaniards. Wiegman was recently honored as FIFA World Coach for the fifth time. Wiegman, who has been in office since 2021, was delighted with the award. “When I arrived in England, I could never have imagined how much respect and warmth I would receive from the people of England,” she said, according to the British news agency PA.

13:53 Clock

Poll: Which of these ten goals is your goal from the first half of the season?

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Kellerkind confirms interest in Ter Stegen

Coach Miguel Ángel Sanchez Munoz has confirmed FC Girona’s interest in national goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen (33).. “He’s a top player. Everyone would love to have Ter Stegen“, said the coach, known as Michel, according to Spanish media, on Monday evening at an awards ceremony organized by the Catalan Football Association. Ter Stegen, who wants to stand between the posts for Germany at the World Cup in the summer, no longer has a future at his club FC Barcelona.

According to consistent reports from the Spanish media, Barca is currently negotiating intensively with third-bottom Girona about a loan deal until the end of the season. In order for ter Stegen to fulfill his dream of traveling to the World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada in the summer as number one, he urgently needs match practice.

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Enrique Collar is to

Atlético Madrid brought a Klublegende Enrique Collar. The former captain of the top Spanish football club died on Monday at the age of 91, the club announced. Collar led the “Rojiblancos” to a championship title, three cup victories and winning the European Cup Winners’ Cup (in Stuttgart) in the 1960s.

“The red and white family loses a symbol who gave everything to bring Atlético Madrid to the top of national and continental football,” the club said in a statement. Collar played for Atlético from 1953 to 1969, scoring 105 goals in 470 competitive games and was captain for ten years – longer than any other player in the club’s history. Collar played 16 international matches for the Spanish national team and took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile. After his time at Atlético, he played one more season for Valencia FC before ending his career in 1970.

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41 saves: Keeper steals the show from German star

Edmonton goalkeeper Calvin Pickard stole the show from his teammates and superstars Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid in the NHL away game at the Winnipeg Jets. The Oilers goalie Shined with 41 saves in the 3-1 win. The Canadian team leads the Pacific Division of the North American Ice Hockey League with 46 points.

“Calvin was fantastic today, clearly the best player,” said coach Kris Knoblauch after the game. Max Jones, Jack Roslovic and Zach Hyman scored the goals for the Oilers. The German national player Draisaitl and McDavid came away empty-handed this time. “We’ve won so many games thanks to Connor and Leon. Winnipeg did a good job today to get them both under control,” said the Oilers coach, analyzing the game.

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The oldest football professional in the world is moving at almost 59 years old

“King Kazu” still doesn’t want to abdicate: Kazuyoshi Miura, the world’s oldest professional footballer, continues his decades-long playing career and moves to the Japanese third division club Fukushima United on loan. This was announced by his new club. Miura will be 59 years old in February. “My passion for football has not changed, no matter how old I get,” said the former Japanese international: “Let’s make history together!”

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Littler attacks the audience: “Thank you for my prize money”

Darts star Luke Littler retaliated with caustic words for boos from the audience during his round of 16 game at the World Cup. “That doesn’t bother me. I want to say one thing: You pay for tickets – so you pay my prize money. Thanks for my money. Thanks for booing. Come on!” said the 18-year-old world champion on stage at the Sky Sports microphone after his 4-2 win against former champion Rob Cross.

Littler had previously fought his way into the quarter-finals with great difficulty and was repeatedly disturbed by the spectators at the legendary Alexandra Palace. Littler later said at the press conference that he was surprised by the fans’ behavior: “It is what it is. They wanted the favorite to be kicked out. I just had to do my job.”

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Lothar Matthäus does not yet see a “breakthrough” with Florian Wirtz

Record national player Lothar Matthäus expects further improvement from Germany’s football star Florian Wirtz at Liverpool FC. The 22-year-old’s first competitive goal for his new club was important and made him happy, wrote Matthäus in his Sky column. “But that wasn’t the final breakthrough for me.”emphasized the 1990 World Champion and 1980 European Champion.

Wirtz must “continue to earn his recognition and his position,” said Matthäus. “He’s slowly becoming a man now and has to keep pushing through and extending his elbows. Then he gets even more balls and is allowed to take free kicks and penalties, as he was allowed to do at Bayer and in the national team.” Wirtz, who moved from Bayer Leverkusen to the English champions in the summer for around 150 million euros, has everything he needs, explained Matthäus. “The attitude is right and the playing quality is undisputed, but the will to be successful together with the team is also right. He will make his way, I am convinced of that.”