700 meters full sprint to the hall: Steinert upset about "Riesenchaos"

Christoph Steinert did not time. The DHB vertical starter grabbed his pocket and tracked. From the corona isolation to the handball field - the approximately 700 meters between the German EM district and the Arena in Bratislava stained back in full sprint.

This is a crazy story, said even the slaughtered Alfred Gislason after the Spain game (23:29) \ - And could hardly believe it. 66 minutes before the kick-off, the originally tested Steinert had received a player's license and delivered one of the stories of the previous EM tournament on Thursday evening with his flash comeback. It was the bizarre highlight of the corona turbulence in the German team.

One hour before the game, I got a call and whatsapp pictures with the negative test results, reported the left-handed over the moment, which changed his perspective abruptly: I then quickly won all that was in my room, I have myself A pants dressed and bin cut off. In this bizarre hour before the game he had suddenly all feelings of this world at the same time.

Good for Steinert - and for the whole German team: Instead of spending the rest of the tournament in quarantine, the left-handed left-handers, one of the great German EM discoveries, is now available for the complete main round.

Steinert talked about his lightning comeback from a Riesen Chaos - a chaos that he lovingly wanted to do without. Because a probably wrongly positive test had set the hitherto best German tournament scorers initially except battle. I hope that no more false is tested positively at all, said Steinert with serious expression: That would be great, because then we would not experience such stories anymore.

Rollercoaster of feelings

On Wednesday, the 32-year-old had received a positive findings as a twelfth player of the DHB team - one day and two negative PCR tests later. A concentrated game preparation definitely looks different, that was already violent, said Steinert and spoke of a roller coaster of the feelings. It was all pretty shitty after the positive test. Something like this is never happened and will never happen again. It is quite good if you have at least two hours to prepare for a game.

The negative test results were for Steinert after all the negative stories of course a giant relief. On the one hand to help the team. On the other hand, it is not so bad not to have Corona.

Against Spain, the 17-goer's best DHB contactors in the preliminary round probably also due to the inadequate preparation could not be used as usual for unfolding. Only two litters took steinert, both did not land in the gate. Today's Friday (live! From 20.30 clock at Steinert) the second main round match against Norway increases. This time, she will certainly not sprinkle to the hall.