Post by Corey on Sept 22, 2016 9:56:04 GMT
German soccer goalie arrested after allowing 43 goals in 1 game
Police arrested a German soccer goalie five days after he surrendered 43 goals in a single game.
Marco Kwiotek's SV Volderort team set a record for professional football ineptitude when it lost to rivals PSV Oberhausen 43-0. The teams play in the lower levels of German club football.
PSV Oberhausen, facing an overmatched SV Volderort team that could only field eight players at one point, led 35-0 at half.
Had there been a mercy rule in German club soccer, it surely would have been invoked. PSV Oberhausen felt bad about the rout, so it deliberately benched three of its own players to make the remainder of the match more sporting.
It helped. Oberhausen only managed to score eight more goals in the second half.
"The result of the last match was hard to take." the shellshocked Kwiotek told the Sun. "I don't want to see that happen again."
It doesn't look like he'll get the chance to, at least not for the immediate future.
On Sunday night, Kwiotek was reportedly marched away from the club's base in Bottrop, western Germany, where he had been training for the next match. According to the Sun, police refused to comment why he was taken into custody.
Impersonating a goalkeeper is not a crime in Germany.
