"Risky sport"

Lighter scandal: Oliver Kahn would have reacted differently

Oliver Kahn was himself pelted with objects during his career.(Bild: GEPA)

After Bochum's Patrick Drewes was hit on the head with a lighter in the Bundesliga match at Union Berlin, the keeper had himself substituted and was later taken to hospital. Oliver Kahn would have acted differently in his place, as he now explained to the German newspaper "Bild".

"I would have thought it would have been better if the goalkeeper had tried to continue playing. And only let himself be substituted when it was no longer possible," said the "Titan", who was hit by a chestnut tree as KSC goalie in 1993 and then by a golf ball seven years later in a Bayern shirt during an away game in Freiburg. "In Freiburg, my body released so much adrenaline that I didn't feel any pain at first. The hit could have been life-threatening."

Thrown with a knife
Former DFB goalkeeper Sepp Maier can also tell you a thing or two about that. "He had a knife thrown at him in Essen that narrowly missed him. In Milan, a full one-liter glass bottle landed just a meter away from me. Soccer becomes a risky sport," Kahn recalled.

Drewes was diagnosed with a slight concussion in a Berlin hospital. However, no hematomas or skin injuries were found and the Bochum keeper got off lightly ...