Welcome to “Sascha Staat Unplugged”. Sascha is a German freelance sports journalist. He started working for a local radio station when he was 19 years old and has hosted radio shows in both Germany and Italy, talking mainly about handball, football, baseball, and ice hockey.
He’s specifically known for hosting “Kreis Ab”, a weekly German handball podcast, and has been awarded the Herbert-Zimmermann-Preis in 2015 for outstanding journalistic performances.
Here, Sascha will focus on handball and share his thought-provoking articles.
It’s been quite a while ago that I heard about Tim Suton for the first time. He was still playing for a club nearby, well, nearby of Solingen, which is located right between Düsseldorf and Cologne. At the time, Bayer Dormagen was hoping, he would lead them back to the first league one day, but his father, Goran, born in …
By Sascha Staat Yes, it’s true; Dagur Sigurdsson might leave the German national team, using a clause in his contract that allows him to opt out of his current deal, in the summer of 2017. It would be a huge blow to German handball and while the press department of the German federation was fast to issue a statement once …
Usually you can read a great deal about the best teams and players in all kind of sports, handball is no difference. A lot of stories have been written about FC Barcelona, THW Kiel or MKB Veszprem. Even more stories have been published about Nikola Karabatic, Aron Palmarsson or Momir Ilic. But only a few stories are written about the …
By Sascha Staat Seems like the statements I recently made about the introduction of a Confederations Cup really caught the eye of many, including ehfTV commentator Tom O’Brannagain. As many times before, I was complaining about players having to endure too many games and called some of the matches meaningless – like all these games in Groups A and B …
In my last article, I was talking about the new television deal of the DKB Handball-Bundesliga, today I want to take a look at the TV rights situation of the upcoming World championship in France, with a focus on Germany I should add. Before we start, I want to let you know that for me it simply doesn’t matter, so …
By Sascha Staat Every once in a while handball fans in various countries are waiting for news regarding TV rights. In Germany enthusiasts are especially eager to know which TV station will broadcast their favorite sport in the future as the contract between Sport1 and the DKB Handball-Bundesliga (DKB HBL) is about to expire at the end of the season …
Eight major titles in 15 years, two triples, countless medals. It’s been quite a ride for Claude Onesta, the former head coach of “Les Experts”. He will go down as the most successful men’s national team coach of all time, there’s no question about it. Having said that it feels a bit weird that he won’t have a chance to …
When Christian Dissinger suffered another long-term injury during the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, some people connected it to his history of major injuries rather than the amount of games he has played in recent time. Dissinger will be out until the end of the year and miss the World championship in France as well. As a consequence he …
Do you remember the EHF Euro 1998 in Italy? Yes, in Italy. The tournament included just twelve teams back then, hosted by cities like Bolzano and Merano, where half of the people speak a strong German dialect, while the rest converse in Italian. South Tyrol is a region of contrasts, but no matter what this particular tournament feels like it …
Do you remember the 2014 Final 4 in Cologne? I guess you do. Kiel or Barcelona, Barcelona or Kiel, maybe Veszprem? And SG Flensburg-Handewitt? Bound for fourth place. In the end the boys of Ljubomir Vranjes stunned the handball world – first shocking Barcelona and then archrival THW Kiel. It was a weekend for the ages. But Flensburg is far …