their paths cross When the reminders come up on both sides. To sporting success, in less good times, and Yes, of course, jokes that you have experienced. The basketball coach Velimir Petkovic and the handball player Michael Kraus, commonly better known under his nickname Mimi, since their time together at Frisch auf Göppingen, a very special relationship.

The 62-year-old Petkovic, meanwhile, is responsible for the foxes Berlin, calls the 35-Year-old also likes his foster son. And as the sons Pull, do you sometimes even things that do not fit the foster-father even in the stuff. In the last match at the beginning of November about Kraus had a meeting in the Jersey of the TVB Stuttgart with the glorious idea, the foxes ten goals to pour and you almost single-handedly a sensitive home defeat to teach. “I don’t want to see in my hall, and I told him on the phone,” said Petkovic.

The foxes have on your injured circle runner Johan Koch

abstain Whether or not the Plan works is a different sheet of paper. After his gala performance in the first half of the season Kraus, check back this Thursday for the second Time this season in the Max-Schmeling-Halle – for the first time the world champion of 2007, however, with his new employer, with the help of SG BBM Bietigheim (19 clock, live on Sky). At his old club in Stuttgart, she had recently leakage to the contract with the playmaker at the end of the season to come to a halt. Kraus reacted immediately, in his own way and forced two weeks ago, a change to the nearby Bundesliga rivals Bietigheim.

And the 128-times national player showed in his first application that he has it also in the more advanced athlete the age of 35 years, still got it: as in the first half of the season against the foxes to him in his debut for Bietigheim ten hits in the relegation duel with chart tail light Ludwigshafen.

The foxes are likely to after two unnecessary defeats be warned in the Bundesliga last against Lemgo and Hannover, so, even though they apply against the next to last of course as the clear favorite. Petkovic, who will be without against Bietigheim on his injured circle runner Johan Koch, promised: “We will not make the mistake to focus only on Kraus.”

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