From our Reality Body Check series.
This post requires a caveat, a fancy word for disclaimer: The story is based on a single, but extremely trustworthy source close to the team. The country of the team is Germany but if anyone feels like criticizing team members' attitudes and behavior, check your local teams first. You'll probably learn a few things.
Once upon a time, there was a German women sports team. To set the record of partner preferences straight, not all of them were lesbians. After all, there are hard-charging hetero ladies, too, who have no issue playing closely with team members who sport different preferences. This is still in marked contrast to male team sports.
Our source tells of a close-knit team that knew how to play hard and how to party hard. Alcohol by the keg and that most evil of poisons, cigarettes, were ever present and, strange enough for outsiders, did not prevent the team from becoming national champions.
Their parties were a blast, the source tells us. Drunken champs, sometimes vomiting in the bathroom, loud music into the small hours of the morning, some - let's say - body checks, not the violent kind, though. And the next day they be in training for hours, or in a game.
Through generations of players.
Everybody close to them knew.
It's very much like any tight group, said the source. Or affairs of politicians, a bunch of people know, nobody talks, often over decades.
In case you wonder, this was before smartphones with cameras became ubiquitous, and we don't know what the present generation of the team is up to. They probably smoke fewer cigarettes, we'd assume.
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