The last home match in the German League
Schmid tears farewell to the lion
Andy Schmid (38 years old) started his career with Rhein-Neckar Löwen as a bad buy twelve years ago. And on Wednesday evening, the Swiss bid farewell to his last home game as a club and Bundesliga legend.
Publication date: 9:30 p.m.
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Updated: 9:39 PM
Seconds before the end, Andy Schmid couldn’t hold back his tears: opponents from THW Kiel threw the ball to the Swiss and boycotted the match – the ultimate respect in Schmid’s last home game with Rhein Neckar Lewin.
“I wish I could scream. It’s not normal for everyone to stop and the game to stop for me,” Schmid says after 26:33 on Sky.
Even TV pundits ditched their neutrality that evening: Stefan Kretzmar and his cohorts commented on Schmid’s big party in “Thank You Andy” T-shirts. The 11,500 spectators – including many handball celebrities – bid farewell to the Lucerne native, who in twelve seasons won two championship titles, one cup and five awards as the best player in the all-German handball league.
Schmid plays his last Bundesliga match before returning to Switzerland on Sunday at the stadium of new champion SC Magdeburg. (Highness)
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