Sometimes,
a performance on the field is so bad that it’s criminal. That may quite
literally be the case for a goalkeeper in the lower leagues of Germany.
In a recent league game, SV Vonderort broke an undesirable record when it lost 43-0 to rival PSV Oberhausen.
According to German newspaper Express,
SV Vonderort was down 35-0 at halftime – that must have been a fun team
talk in the interval! – and at one point it was only able to field
eight players. PSV Oberhausen was so embarrassed by its lead that it
made the sporting gesture of removing three of its own players to even
up the numbers.
[ FC Yahoo: Swedish clubs offer new twist to pregame tradition ]
After
conceding a goal nearly every two minutes, goalkeeper Marco Kwiotek may
have wanted to completely forget about the performance.
However,
five days later at a training session, two police cars arrived at
Vonderort’s training ground in Bottrop (around 30 miles west of
Dortmund). The 25-year-old keeper was escorted from the training field
by armed officers and brought to the local police station for
questioning.
