Two games, two wins – and then a party that beats all!
Füchse Berlin won two fierce duels in the space of 43 hours: first the Champions League thriller against Sporting CP (38:37), then a 32:29 success in the top duel against THW Kiel.
The Berlin team, which had to play without its four injured regulars (Wiede, Lichtlein, Herburger and Prantner) for weeks, raced to victory in the final groove, but in the subsequent victory celebrations in the dressing room, the Berlin team around superstar Mathias Gidsel (26) really let it rip.
You rarely see it in handball: Pack formation after a blatant foul on Kiel Star
Managing director Bob Hanning (57) had a surprise: he brought singer Oimara with her hit song “Wackelkontakt” into his dressing room. The song has become the internal anthem of Berliners since the championship celebrations. Songwriter Beni Hafner (33) has rewritten his après-ski and party song for last season’s Champions League final and sang live in the dressing room with his guitar.
After the win against Kiel: The Foxes rocked with loose contact
Instead of “If I were a piece of furniture, then I would be a lamp from the 70s, I like it on, I want it to go out, my fuse is blown. If I were a piece of furniture, then I would be a lamp from the 70s, I drain a nuclear power plant, I work with 8000 amps” the text specifically for the foxes now says: “If I were a Handball team, then I would probably be a fox from Berlin, the ball sticks to our hands, we play Kielers against the wall – we are foxes, foxes, fox, fox from Berlin.
Even before the match, the fox hole was already rocking, as singer Oimara performed the unofficial championship song “Wackelkontakt” for the first time in front of 9,000 fans. 10-goal hero Tim Freihöfer (26) revealed: “I didn’t even realize it before the game, I was so focused and was in the tunnel and didn’t hear it.”
The after-game party was even more fun. Mathias Gidsel (26) and captain Max Darj (33) not only sang along, but also played drums on the cabin benches, and Fabian Wiede (31), who recently underwent ligament surgery, also followed the rhythm with his sticks.
Hanning: “The players were so exhausted on the pitch, they took out everything they had left in their bodies. A huge compliment. But I was really surprised when Oimara showed up in the dressing room, how much energy they still had in their bodies that we didn’t leave in the game, and they just took it out again.”
