Sports language in the 1970s was already very creepy.
Make-up lesson before training - what is wrong with this picture (Photo: FC Bayern Museum) from 1970?
Monika Schmidt tells us: “The girls to the left and right of me weren't footballers at all.
They were dressed specially for this photo.
The Hörlkofenerin herself could very well play.
And how.
With her 520 games she is a legend at Bayern Munich.
Why did she take part in this photo, which was far from football?
"That was a PR story, nothing more," she says.
"A joke" - was that clever?
Naturally.
Why shouldn't women be allowed to play with female clichés - as long as they want to.
Perhaps that was the right answer to the flat passes that the newspapers played 50 years ago. The Bild-Zeitung praised the “kicker amazons” because they kicked the ball “without a make-up kit, without nylons, without a wig, but with a lot of courage and enthusiasm”. And further: "In addition to grace and bosom, the Bavarians also show home-made football food." Another reporter praises the "ambition in tender calves". The magazine "Quick" presents the Bayern soccer players in evening dresses and also describes the fear of the photographer who feared "the blackest day of his career". “The nightmare of all sensitive men was imminent. A women's soccer team is approaching, ”it continues in the text. Well, it can be seen from the text, the female soccer players ultimately inspire photographers and reporters.Quick writes about Monika Schmidt: “She is the whisker of the eleven and very sexy in a lamé dress.” A tabloid has an ambiguous headline: “Samples among the Bayern women”. And the evening newspaper, which had already recognized the result of the very first game of the Bayern women as a "Sex: 1", also believed it knew: "The Bayern girls prefer kicking than kissing."
“Girls” - that was even in the headline when the women of FCB became German champions for the first time.
The text for the picture was written by a certain Markus Hörwick, later media director of FC Bayern.
But what newspapers can do, TV reporters can do.
One player, said the TV man, was doing “great preparatory work, but the rest of the women are probably organizing a coffee party”.
What else can I say?
Perhaps: is the woman herself? Inka Stangl-Wallgrün, journalist and Bayern player, wrote about the Bavarian soccer championship in 1972: “Hopefully we will succeed (...) in proving that we really can and want to play soccer and that we are not a group of clowns who open up for popular amusement hop around the lawn. Usually the audience has decided after the first few moves whether they want to laugh or watch with interest. ”On that day, the women made it after ten minutes at the latest when the midfielder scored after a“ wonderful solo effort to make it 1-0 ”- "Enthusiastic applause for Monika Schmidt". We're happy to join in.