Otto Pfister: "An African team will never be world champions!"

Cologne / St.Gallen - bang on the black football Kontinennt! Globetrotter Otto Pfister (71) has jettisoned as national coach of Cameroon - exactly one year before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa!
In the interview, the native of Cologne EXPRESS explains why he quit. And why an African team will never be World Champion ...
EXPRESS: Mr. Pfister is why you resigned as coach of Cameroon? Pfister: I was observed in Greece players who come into our training camp in Brussels, and suddenly three people standing in front of me and say: We are your new assistant coach. The minister has simply changed my employees rod. My past Wizards were simply sold! I'm not going to do with me. I have principles. Imagine: In Cologne, Christoph Daum comes to training and his assistants are fired. Who can do that to himself? How can I explain this one Samuel EtoŽo? I still lose my face! I immediately canceled in writing.
Can you do it just like that? Pfister: Of course. The Federation has indeed committed a breach of contract. I have an exclusive right to pick me my staff. Goalkeeper coach Thomas Nkono was among them. And my assistant GWEA was the best I ever had. The take away I can not let me. He was crying on the phone. Do you know: Whether in Togo, Nigeria or Cameroon, it is the same everywhere.
What do you think? Pfister: It's about the clan. Coal. For positions and intrigue. 1000 people in Cameroon want to be coaches for the national team. There is a lot of money in the game. If you belong to, you have a good future. And so the politics of its people haggle about the team. For this reason, an African team will never be world champion!
Your dream of the 2010 World Cup has burst? Pfister: Not at all. I already have a job as national coach in the Arab Region and another. In addition, roll again soon anyway for a few heads in the qualification.
But the issue is final by Cameroon? After all, they led the country to No. 2 at the last African Nations Cup. ... Pfister: Even the President has called me. Certainly there is a chance. But that's all tralala. To 90 percent, the door is shut. As a coach you have to be cold. I've known this dirty business. Even Arsène Wenger and José Mourinho, whom I know very well, are cold. No other way.
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"There is something unique for us all," said Felix Sturm in the name of Boxkollegen that will leave it here on Saturday at the Nurburgring their business card. "I hope that we will leave a lasting impression - and may come back."
A paddock is not new territory for the Leverkusen-based way, "I was there already in Monte Carlo." Where he met Sebastian Vettel: "A great guy. Even for him is just the success. "Of course it would provoke storm," Driving a lap time in race cars, but the risk is too great. " Especially now that he is father.
Therefore, perhaps the somewhat surprising answer when asked about his favorite car: "I ride my bike, go-kart like too, but my dream is a tractor with more horsepower." Perhaps he flirts more with a Ferrari - as well as Domenico Spada. The Italian fight against Schwerin Sebastian Zbik ( "I drive VW") to the Interim WBC World Championship in the middleweight and admits that he still put up with a Fiat Panda has to take.
Car is an absolute freak storm opponents Khoren Gevor. Although privately he only runs "the wife's car - A-Class", but he's out in every free minute with his "home-made and painted" model BMW to competitions.
If, after Nurburgring CEO Dr. Walter Kafitz, then they may come back all the way: "I hope that will pit the cult on the ring."

Bernd Stelter: That would be terrible!

One man, one goal: to bring fun into everyday life. But he is on stage, on TV and as a book author in use:
Bernd Stelter (47), the man who brings the mood in the booth. He has just the final work for his camp thriller "Death has entered a trailer hitch" (published in mid-August in Lübbe Verlag), the WDR-TV Wednesdays runs his success Quiz "The NRW Duell Extra" on 13 9. he is with his program "midst" in Cologne's "Dancing Fountain" and then the carnival preparations to run.
All times occasions, asking him to talk to. EXPRESS caught him during a family holiday at the campsite in Holland.
The interview can be read right in the box!

Ne kölsche Jung as a star in reggae land

Cologne - Tilman Otto (33) is likely to be some teachers at the Cologne Hansa Gymnasium still known as the cheeky clowns.
Meanwhile, he is a "gentleman" a superstar of reggae. And the only German to be recognized in Jamaica, the home of this music.
His album "Confidence" in 2004 rose to # 1 on the German charts, 2007 landing "Another Intensity" on position 2 He is compared to the greats of the reggae, even with Bob Marley, and calls from the Mayor of Cologne Fritz Schramma (CDU) is twinned with the Jamaican capital of Kingston.
"For me, the appearance in front of the cathedral an honor and the highlight of my career," he says. "When you consider that I have skated here before ..." That will be no place on Sunday ...

99ers tremble before decision

Cologne - Exactly four weeks after the bankruptcy, the shock Cologne 99ers fear for their future. During the day, announced the National Basketball League (BBL), whether the 99ers will continue to be present on the big basketball stage.
BBL spokesman Dirk Kaiser on Monday evening: "Those responsible have continued their approach delivered on time by 17 clock. Now we are thoroughly reviewing whether it can be ensured with this approach, another regulation play. "
BBL-director and a lawyer in January Pommer looked first to the documents, now agrees with his fellow board members. Despite the uncertainty, the signs are good that the saving banks is finally reached!
 Otherwise would have administrator Dr. Norbert Heimann can save the work and probably not given the green light to present the approach to the BBL. Now decide whether the ULEB Cup game against Russia Khimki BK (Tuesday, 19.30 clock, EnergyDome) still stands in the way of anything.
 Dirk Kaiser: "This is a balancing process. We see not only the organization Cologne 99ers, but also the people behind it. Cologne is not only because a very important location. On the other hand, of course the interests of other clubs will be respected. However, I am confident that the 99ers have delivered a workable package. "
 Russia's top club despite uncertainty landed on Monday at 13.40 clock in the private jet at the Cologne airport. The 99ers-Giants are following the gala performance against casting prepared to approve, the BBL is now the future of Cologne's most successful sports club in recent years.