Football is the TV sports the big words , So it is not far to say this Friday: An era comes to an end. Because after more than one and a half decades, Star commentator Marcel Reif (“from an acute angle” ) in early summer the pay-TV broadcaster Sky leave. This was confirmed by the 66-year-old on Friday the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. From sports journalism but he wants for now does not seem to be.
“After 17 years of my contract runs out and it is time to pursue new challenges and projects. When and with Sky I have an exciting time experienced with many highlights, “Reif said. “For the time after I check in rest some deals. The role as a patriarch, I have three sons and two grandchildren will not fill me anyway so quickly. “
The legendary comment by Marcel Reif and Günther Jauch from Madrid you can with the CD” The first Tor is like “bring home
Reif was from RTL to Sky (then Premiere) changed 1999 – and coined there ever since for many pay-TV owners and friends of football pubs transfers acoustically the Champions League evenings. Multiple choice Swiss Award for his eloquent game comments, as the German and the Bavarian Television Award. However Reif has also not to be overlooked band of critics. Is rebuked by some fans among other things, a penchant for overly negative judgments about the quality of annotated games.
Both friends and skeptics can say goodbye definitely still in rest of frost. The 66-year-old will comment on, among other things still the Champions League final in late May according to own data. Even his greatest moment as a sports commentator had frost once experienced in the Champions Leauge: In 1998, he was sitting at the microphone, as the Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid a goal overturned and delayed the start of the match Real Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund by more than an hour. Hoop succinctly comment at the time: “. Never before had a goal a game so well done as it is today”
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