Whenever the hall is sold out and there is seating behind the goal, it gets really tight for the photographers. Otherwise, everyone gets their own chair and has enough space to spread out their equipment. But seating behind the goal for the spectators means "numbered seats" for the photographers on one of those school sports benches that you may remember from your school days. Everyone sits close together: laptop on your lap, one camera at the ready, the other within reach. In the meantime, select, label and upload images. If you're not organized, you lose. After all, the game only started at 17:30 p.m. and the newspaper editors want to finish work sometimes too...
Since handball is never printed that much, I was of course happy when I saw at least one of my pictures in the newspaper the next morning. Can you guess which one?
I'm also becoming more and more enthusiastic about this sport. Many footballers could learn from their attitude and team spirit. And there's no more "showmanship" from the Schweinis and Poldis, because such players would be tackled straight away in handball.
Very pleasant …
Great pictures!
Best regards,
.marc
Why is the team spirit more pronounced among handball players than among footballers? I wouldn't agree with that. Otherwise there wouldn't be games like Schalke's 5:2 in Milan. - And as far as the "showmanship" goes, I can't find any evidence either, neither for Schweini nor for Poldi nor anyone else. The men are simply much more in the public eye, since football is the number one national sport and the two are national players. You don't even see them in commercials anymore (which EVERYONE would sign because of the profitability) - so what supports the theory mentioned?
@Andreas, of course my statement is provocatively general. But it's consistent with what I've experienced watching both sports over the last few years.
I am a football fan at heart and, in addition to 17 green and white home games, I accompanied the team on 6-8 away trips per year. And that's when I got the lukewarm feeling that the attitude of the individual players towards fans and the rest of the environment had changed. It feels like there are more self-promoters on the pitch than before.
Of course, this is always just a snapshot. These are people who are sometimes under immense pressure at a young age. And that is certainly more extreme in football than in handball. Without question.
But it feels that way to me.
I also read with interest sentences from Mr. Hoeness where he spoke about the schedule for international and cup matches.
From an external perspective, however, it appears as if the handball players accept the pressure of the World and European Championships at the turn of the year with less grumbling. And just play your 8 games in 11 days.
I don't know whether these can even be plausibly compared.
Handball is handball, football is football. But my gut feeling tells me that the sport of handball leaves no room for individual actors.
.marc
I'm guessing Schwalb's celebration with Kraus on the left.
Grüßle
Harry
In fact, picture 7 – the bleeding Jansen – was printed. Most of the photographers on either side of me didn’t have that 🙂