By ANP··Amended:
RTL
Hockey player Duco Telgenkamp regrets the way he provoked German goalkeeper Jean-Paul Danneberg after his decisive shoot-out in the won Olympic hockey final. “I shouldn’t have done that, but it affected me personally that he said we were afraid of them. And I don’t think I look afraid,” said the confident attacker (22) after winning Olympic gold.
The goalkeeper had said in the run-up to the final that he thought the Dutch would be afraid of Germany. “We’ll come in there with a very broad chest, because I think the Dutch are really afraid of us,” he had said.
According to Telgenkamp, Danneberg has been annoying before. “And during the match he said things again. Sport is personal to me and not business, so it doesn’t take much for me to get provoked. That’s why I went to him after I scored my shoot-out. But we are men among ourselves. They are angry and we were not afraid. And we have gold.”
The Oranje players read Danneberg’s statements in a German newspaper, Oranje goalkeeper Pirmin Blaak said. “Lesson one of the media training is: don’t talk about your opponent like that. He does. So we had a photo of him printed out and I also wanted to hang it in the dugout. We are not ideal sons-in-law, you also have to be a bit dirty.”
