Kick-off! Life – the new soccer show on the round leather and the lightness of Being. Where philosophy provides no answers to the questions of life, we have put in place. Because football is the life.
The new football show ‘Kick off! Life starts in their first episode, with Marc Bartra and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Football is life! There, where the philosophy ends and the lack of sufficient answers to the questions of life, ‘Kick off! Life’. ‘Kick off! Life’ for the first time on Thursday, the 17. August, on Youtube and Facebook as well as on television.
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What is ‘Kick off! Life’?
YouTube and TV
The Team of sports editors to Henning Hesse, Philipp Engelhardt and Marc Friedrich developed the new magazine, at the transmission place of the Bundesliga magazine Kick off! Countdown and closer. The result: an unconventional football show with background pieces, and also the Humor is not too short. “For the first time, DW is a football magazine that is to be seen on Youtube and on TV.” says Matthias Frickel, Deputy editor-in-chief, who initiated the project.
Every Thursday has a ‘Kick-off! Life’ with a different thematic focus: for example, with Fans, the love, money, failure, home, and happiness.
Being Ronaldo
Reporters speak with German and foreign Stars of their profession, their motives, their desires, ask for highs and Lows. In the section “Global Talk”, interact Fans from all over the world.
Thumbs up! The Team of ‘Kick-off! Life’
“Life is a pitch” tracks globally the most unusual playing fields. “Singing fan clubs” presents a week, for ambitious football fans who sing for their club, the soul from the body. In “Being Ronaldo,” look, the editors at life from the perspective of the Portuguese world footballer. Behind all the big questions of life. That and much more every week in our new football show ‘Kick off! Life’.
“We pick our audience where they are at home. Football fans all over the world live in the network and not just sit in front of the TV,” says Henning Hesse. “Now we send you to the world of football and the League on your Smartphone.” The entire show is on Youtube and also excerpts on Facebook and Twitter available.
Thoughtful BVB-Star
Kick-off! Life to its Premiere, the theme of Fans. Because in no other sport has such a strong fan culture like in football.
BVB Central defender Marc Bartra
Dortmund’s defender Marc Bartra, who was injured in a bomb attack in April, speaks in an Interview on the South stand of the Dortmund football temple about the time after the assassination: “As I have fired the Super Cup at the beginning of August, the penalty, I was destroyed on the bottom so that I could not sleep the whole night. But my last thought was: Marc, after everything you’ve survived, after the fear – how can you be annoyed about a missed penalty?”
The dark side of the fandom will ask in a documentary about Eintracht-Frankfurt-Hooligans. A Reporter with several Hooligans language.