When a person asks me what it is like to be a sports reporter, I like to answer: It feels like a never-ending school trip! Some things are compulsory but you enjoy new experiences and often get to know a lot of new people and...
The call comes in at 9:08 am. I’m still laying in the bed of the “Prak Grand Paddington Court“, Jens Lehmann is on his 35 minutes ride from his appartement in Primrose Hill to Conley where the trainingcenter of arsenal is. The appointement has to...
I turn off at the Munich Terminal to my gate for my flight to the cup-match in Leipzig when a familiar voice welcomes me: “Mister Falk, does the SportBild have spies at Lufthansa? Or why do you allways know which machine we take?“. It’s Uli...
Just a few meters seperate me from the Lufthansa-Lounge when I get a fright by a voice from behind while I was tipping a SMS. “Oh, Mr. Falk ist also on the way to his gate…“ Now I recognize Philipp Lahm who put his cap...
„Christian, you here !“, this is how Oliver Kahn, who sits on leather chair in a room of the Herathouse, welcomes me. Kahn and I, we know each other for 20 years now and of course he knows that we have an appointement, but he...
"Arturo has announced it, Arturo knew it!", Joshua Kimmich shouted to me before he waved and left the Fisht stadium just before midnight, where the national team had won against Australia, Cameroon and now also against Mexico. Only the Chileans could get a point, in...