Wunderschön, lustig und bewegend.Über die besondere Beziehung des Spitzenpferdes Bella Rose und der Olympiasiegerin Isabell WerthDer Fußballprofi Per Mertesacker über seine übliche Vorbereitung vor einem entscheidenden Spiel, sein Verhältnis zu Arsène Wenger und mit welchem Gesicht er seine Gegner einschüchtert. "At the same time, even as a child, I tended to keep things to myself.He stood on a soccer pitch for the first time at the age of four.

The History of DER SPIEGEL Per Mertesacker ist im Anschluss sauer über die Fragen des ZDF-Reporters. He explains what he gave up for it -- his youth, his privacy, his freedom. From early on, he began playing on the team for players who were a year older than he was. Wenn Per Mertesacker, 35, an diesem Mittwoch als Experte für den Streaming-Sender "Football was my hobby and that was it." Bitte markieren Sie die entsprechenden Wörter im Text. "He also wants to open the boys' eyes. You're steady with the ball and good in the air.His coaches soon came to see him as a team anchor. I'm still the same today.

Bayern - Lyon: Wie stehen die Chancen des Underdogs?Ex-Tropensturm befeuert Hitzewelle - hier werden es wieder bis zu 37 Grad "You don't want the other people on the team to think there's something wrong with you. He doesn't have any tattoos, no diamond earrings and no photos of himself posing with models on yachts rocking in the sea off Nice or Ibiza. Because it's the only way you can get legitimate time off, it gets you out of the grind." "That was the first time where I thought to myself, wait a second, this is getting serious," Mertesacker says.Arsenal player Per Mertesacker shows off his skills in the air.In 2003, he signed his first contract to play professional football. "You also have the fear during other games; you're constantly looking at the scoreboard and counting the minutes. "Totally there. And he was just waiting for that feeling to go away. Doch die politischen Verbrechen an russischen Oppositionellen sind auch deswegen möglich, weil nie viel mehr als Empörung passiert, schreibt Carolin Emcke.Der Bericht des Insolvenz-Verwalters entlarvt das Unternehmen als ein Konstrukt, an dem so gut wie nichts gestimmt haben soll. On the other hand, I was totally present right afterwards." Mertesacker will be playing his final game in May. "Because, of course, at some point you realize that it's all a burden, physically and mentally, that you're supposed to handle and deal with. "It was all worth it for the memories. The new challenges that, he says, often brought new motivations, and ultimately, the offer from Arsenal London, the world-famous club for which he had always wanted to play. His father was troubled. "As a professional player, he says his body went on strike at least once a year. Being measured, day after day: How much has he run? The people, especially the children, who idolize you. Kein Ballzauberer, aber einer, auf den sich Jogi Löw und Arsène Wenger verlassen konnten. He just wants to show what he has long sought to ignore -- namely that the enormous business of football demands far more from its players than just their bodies. He says he wants to leave something behind for "the following generations. The love of the game. "My body is simply finished.

I was often just telling myself: don't think about it, just keep going, keep going." "As if everything that then happened, symbolically speaking, just made me want to puke. "Arsenal player Per Mertesacker shows off his skills in the air.Peer Mertesacker (second from left) with others from the German national team after winning the 2014 World Cup. He wants to clear up false assumptions and show what it really means to live the job that many see as a dream: the need to stand up to ruinous pressure, being trapped in an unending cycle of training and games yet constantly being reduced to your performance.You're always just the player and never the person behind the jersey. He makes a clicking sound with his tongue. I chose this, nobody forced me to do it. "I was always a defender -- always simple, but effective. All the talk of more humanity in football, he said, were just empty words.So why did he keep playing? "Those days are good for the mind," he says. After the youth team, he was given a contract with the club's amateur team. Höre auf deinen Körper; 19. Langstreckenläuferin Alina Reh gibt Lauftipps und sagt: Das Wichtigste ist anfangen.Versicherungen gegen Berufsunfähigkeit sind teuer, ein guter Vertrag ist nicht leicht zu finden.

"It's hard to explain, but it's like a vortex that you can't get out of. His right knee is busted, with cartilage damage. Why Arsenal Star Per Mertesacker Is Happy to Leave Football People like him. Vor einem Jahr siegt Deutschland im Achtelfinale gegen Algerien.

Photos of Enke's memorial service show a crying Mertesacker. He never even thought he would make it onto the "big stage," he says.