Germany has an image problem. Everyone thinks the sports stars who bag merits and medals are great, but the carers and collectors behind them don’t give a damn. Eager helpers like the chocolate taler clearers in football stadiums are just as little appreciated as the puddle clearers at 1. FC Saarbrücken, who wanted to prepare a playable pitch for the DFB Cup heroes and their opponents.
Honor where honor is due
America, you have it better there: There, someone who freed tennis stars Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev from thousands of bees in Indian Wells is celebrated as an “American hero”. This shows more prestige and pathos than the “silent stars” with which volunteers who are needed in this country are ensnared.
The “superhero without a cape”, as the match winner Alcaraz, who was heavily admired on Thursday, called the bee keeper Lance Davis, sucked in the insects unprotected and with his bare hands and safely removed them from the stadium.
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The rescue of people and animals took 108 minutes, during which the match had to be interrupted. “Very cool, fearless guy,” said US actor Ben Stiller. Honor where honor is due.