Sports & Politics
It's blow by blow
It's getting serious again: the German women's national soccer team is trying to determine where it stands this year with eleven international matches planned, because coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg has the ambition to build on old successes. Next year, the European Championship in England is on the agenda, followed a year later by the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, for which qualifying begins in the second half of 2021, then - if all goes well - the Olympic Games in 2024 and finally the European Championship in 2025.
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Ring free for the next round
The heroes are exhausted, and so are their squires. In the Middle Ages, the opponents negotiated a castle peace, because neither the castle was stormed nor the attacks really repelled. Such "peace" was of course not worth the parchment on which it was sealed; rather, it served merely as a respite. To lick wounds, seek new allies, sharpen swords, organise new gunpowder and supplies.
A blade of grass tickles emotions
Plastic straws, rubber granulate and asphalt - these were the reasons for the excitement surrounding the Women's World Cup (WFC) in Canada. At the end of 2016, journalist Kerstin Mitternacht did research on this topic for Style PASS.
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A detailed report by journalist Kerstin Mitternacht
Smart women join forces
A surprising message has recently arrived from the land of unlimited opportunities, the USA: 33 people, some of them well-known Hollywood stars and American sportswomen, have joined together to form an investor group. But not to launch the next app in Silicon Valley, but to finance a professional women's soccer team in Los Angeles. Goal? Starting in 2022, this team is to compete in the US Women's League and thus finally promote California to the National Women's Soccer League.