Dieter Priglmeir reports about nice, smiling and gesticulating referees in his sports whisper for the weekend.
Vest Kressierer passed away a few weeks ago. What many do not know: the farmer from Langengeisling was once a football referee with the nickname "Angel of Peace". Instead of directing a game with an iron hand, he left it with an almost pleading sigh: "Now give it a rest." As older footballers say, it should have worked just as well as Georg Maier (Jaga-Schorsch) or Innings Hubert Refuses, who commented on blood cleats with a fatherly "Now bassds stop amoi".
The prime example of what is probably the most peaceful referee of all time was Gerhard Brülbeck, who died much too early at the age of 68 and who earned the nickname “The Smile” in his over 1,500 game directors. "When he stopped smiling, everyone knew that they were moving in the border area," said his referee colleague Martin Kübelsbeck once.
Incidentally, the research was not easy. The sounds are easier to remember than the silent ones. Hans Bruckmeier calls Edib Mehmedovic. "Due to his confident and calm manner, he never needed cards to assert himself," says Ottenhofen's football coach, who then also remembers Simon Ascher. Perhaps, as a former ice hockey player, he is used to a different degree of hardship. "In any case, he whistles completely unimpressed and acknowledges the canonades of abuse of the audience (classic phrase after Fouls:" Hey, he has to go back to work on Monday ") with a tired smile." Only when Bruckmeier looked a bit grumpy, he let himself be Carried comment: “You don't even have to look like that. Until now you've always won when I whistled. "Bruckmeier:" And that's true. I like him as a referee. "
Jakob Huber does not exactly belong to the "peace pipe" category. When the rigorous referee was assigned, says trainer Sebastian Held, “As a trainer, I always doubled the penalties in the penalty catalog. So no one dared to complain when making decisions. ”Only Maxi Maier tried again and again to negotiate with Huber. Held: "I changed it after 20 minutes to his delight."
And then Held comes up with a surprise: "For me as a trainer, Mr. Trompke is the most peaceful." Mr. Trompke! You can literally hear the respect. Held reveals how to deal with the referee, who is not so well liked by all footballers: "Before the game there is a Snickers with a specialty and apple spritzer - and the players are calm on the pitch." When his men were concentrated and fair , there were also no cards. "Should that not be the case, Mr. Trompke always took care of it."
Coach colleague Bruckmeier sees it similarly. Trompke, who likes to speak to you in the third person ("Come to me!") Protect the players. “Nobody is cut back a second time,” says Bruckmeier, who can certainly imagine the highly acclaimed speaker as a speaker for a gesture seminar. But again: Christian Trompke has a good chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Somehow surprising. On the other hand: Even smilers Brülbeck wasn't always nice. We quote Held again: “I received a yellow card from him because of a false throw-in. His reasoning: 'Your father annoyed and criticized me so much at the AH game on Friday. With that you earned a card '. “Brülbeck sent greetings to Mr. Papa. Then he smiled.