Double goal scorer Alexandra Popp took a deep breath. The heroine of the perfect opening night of the German footballers at the World Cup was asked about her “ET” telephone goal celebration, and the DFB captain replied emotionally: “I think the one who lost weight is my father.”
The two-time goalscorer in the 6-0 win over Morocco on Monday in Melbourne said that she was “phoned home in that sense. Not only for the people who sit in front of the television, but especially for the people who can no longer be with us.”
Double goal scorer Alexandra Popp shows the emotional “ET” telephone goal celebration.
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The reasons for their sentimentality, Popp said late in the evening (local time) during the press conference, “I don’t have to say that”. But it was obvious that she was thinking of her dead father that evening. In front of 27,256 spectators in the Albert Park stadium, which was not sold out, the striker was the outstanding player with the first two German goals at the tournament in Australia and New Zealand (11th and 39th minutes).
Twice the 32-year-old from Wolfsburg showed her jubilant gesture known from the EM 2022 in England, alluding to the classic film about the extraterrestrial “.ET”, who was stranded on earth and wanted to “phone home”: the left hand as an imaginary telephone, the right index finger stretched towards the sky. When they were substituted late (83rd), the German fans in the stadium cheered.
After the game, the captain was wrapped up in a thick jacket and right back in the middle of it, smiling and hugging her teammates. The doubts that arose about the selection of national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg on the way to the hoped-for third World Cup title after 2003 and 2007 were wiped away after the triumph against the World Cup debutant.
2023-07-24 19:25:47
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