in 5th place right behind torque. and you're watching video been used live from berlin coming up next a sports life with a report on a new a new football the for a few teams i'm exposer thanks for watching. people looking for coverage. there are many answers. there are many reasons.

and there are many alternatives. to. make up your mind to. make for minds. you know. when you're. a newborn. it's like my whole life in here for 5 years now you know i'm doing my

apprenticeship here the people are always nice and helpful you just feel at home. in 2015 how many fled his home country of afghanistan leaving behind his family and the trauma he lived through as a child. i was 12 and at school when the taliban came and shot everything up. i was badly injured and a month later i lost my leg. and when i just went back to school my main concern was how can i keep playing football you know that was on my mind with this for all i know i told myself yes you can do it hammad you can. you know. if you want something then you'll find a way and if you don't want something you'll find excuses when money's going to go into. her meds settled in quickly making new friends and fulfilling

a dream finally playing football again. several times a month she trains with the club sport find of braunschweig in germany there are just 2 other facilities for amputee football in hoffenheim and in. the school she's played using just one leg and crutches goalkeepers play on 2 legs but use just one arm. just like we're going to hoffenheim one goalkeeper 3 outfield players will swap in the pennant li ok sport for no. comment has been playing with the club for 2 years. the team is preparing for the 1st official amputee football competition in just a few days the tournament will begin in hoffenheim all of our that are that far off . in their training match they were confined to mental passing running shooting. this complex demands

a lot from the athletes 6. i grew up with football and it's quite came here to the boys and see that they're really motivated and it's lots of fun. also the way it makes me feel going to football and the guys are part of my life that's how i see it. for many athletes m.p.t. football is a way back to normality. that's the case for 13 year old him. i've been playing football since i was 6 and i really like it because it's a real team sport at some point i went in goal and really enjoyed it and since then i've been playing as a goalkeeper. it

wasn't nice when he was in a dark place and not feeling well but he was so happy when we heard about amputee football and he complained goalie again that's his favorite position so i'm really happy and also glad to see him happy. he is one of $38.00 active amputee footballers in germany 3 years ago he had an accident during a sailing trip in haitian underwent emergency surgery for several hours but doctors were unable to save his right hand. you don't fully realize it at the time of the beginning when he was stuck in this really dark place nothing was working. he couldn't really couldn't write because his right hand is. just simple things like using a play station didn't work anymore how was he supposed to do it. one of the 1st questions was whether he could continue playing as a keeper those are things where you just don't know the answers. but. there

were none of us is me. by chance free to him bianca heard about amputee football it was a stroke of luck for their son him. now he can finally play in goal again and his throwing thing. it's loads of fun it's a bit different but it's nice and also good to see that it works also that the other keepers are like me and i'm not the only one with a disadvantage. have was there at the start i was slightly daunted but then i just imagined it was like regular football i kept on training and playing i was really excited when i heard the news that i'm 1st choice for brown strike me and. i'm very proud of that. it's game time of the 1st official amputee football competition kicks off 1st to

play a top teams doesn't often toughen hind. studies the opposition so really each match consists of 29 minute harv's the braunschweig squads nerves the jangling dissolute often hoffenheim and very skilled. all of the historic event is also watched by klaus bender he coaches the national team as well as the hoffenheim squad. i was there because the decisive difference from my point of view was the movement of the crutches and eye in the right position rather crutches blocking my movement non-disabled players don't have that issue how many people complain about conditions my players can most all day about their missing limbs it won't grow back . it's game time for the head of their 1st competitive match the coach sets the tone. for me personally it's more

important not to can see them for us to score if we lose the ball the matter where the pitch we have to move back. once we're there we can catch our breath then. yeah. yeah i'm really happy but also a bit nervous. to sort of a really good hoffenheim to most of their players are in the national team and also who is going i'm excited to see what will happen. early on the team from braunschweig hold their own in their 1st competitive match. and hinchliffe pulls off some saves. but hoffenheim a more experienced and simply the better side on the day. was. what the rules are simple each team can have one player wearing

a pretty cis all others played with crutches. who go off to be very old actively playing the ball with crutches counts as a handball. the goalkeeper may not leave the penalty area home on. how madden he can get a win in their matches against hoffenheim and dissolute of. i was there and yet there's still happy to be there for germany's 1st amputee football tournament i think it was loads of fun and you can be a little angry or sad but i already feel great again now. right off. the board but. back in you know borg the 1st round of matches is over and tom it is on his way to work.

2 years ago he began training as an orthopedic technician. how many prostheses and also sees. now he's about to take his final apprenticeship exam on sunday. in afghanistan there aren't as many opportunities as here not as many good prosthesis. it was my dream to one day get a prosthesis good enough for me to play football or other sports go with the guns and while a sport that's why i'm learning this profession and hope to help other people at some point we can burn off in under a 1000000 or by pay. for the move. it's. always been 1st i want to complete my apprenticeship and then work as a normal tradesmen for a few years but it's also my goal to get my master crossman certificate at some

point and maybe even start a small company in vans who i knew kind of know. how meant to set his hopes high also for the national team. language should we speak in french english or just the language of football. clubs spend is also aiming high he wants to develop this fledgling sport and raise standards to a professional level in germany. some countries have professional structures in place especially turkey but also poland in england are examples of countries where this sport is fairly professionalized. or where you see ourselves as pioneers but there is a structure forming and an interest we can build on next month next year the european championships are in krakow poland and we aim to finish 2 spots higher than we did last time. i hope we can continue to find players in germany who are enthusiastic about the prospects of amputee football.

in terms of amputee football germany is still a developing nation turkey are the reigning european champions. 5. the german national teams next big goal is 02021 in poland. that's hammett's focused too he's part of the provisional squad. and for the english or minus you know myself i actually wanted to play for my national team but sadly we don't have his name but i also call this place home and i've lived here for 5 years and i want to stay. when you have a goal you give everything and it's my aim to play of the euros with the national team. and i hope i can make it. on the top of that. in december the competition is brought to hold you to the coronavirus pandemic team

sports can only be played to a limited extent pam i didn't see man use their free time to stay fit. here then you're talking i know i'm really just a coronavirus pandemic who can still do something about what we were able to play to match days we learned a lot because it was the 1st time we played with multiple teams else the 20 year there aren't many teams just 3 but it was still our 1st tournament. i definitely learnt a lot and elsewhere now preparing for next year and i hope it will all pan out. there waiting for next hour when the tour highlights cricket i.

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