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.
By Sascha Staat In case you’re looking for an article full of praise and compliments, well, then you’re definitely wrong here. However, if you like a deeper look at what’s currently going wrong in handball, then sit down, relax and, hopefully, “enjoy” – although the general content is hardly positive. But what can you make of a sport where teams …
By Sascha Staat “History will be made”, that’s a claim used most recently by the NBA, if I’m not totally mistaken. To be honest history is made every summer when the various sports leagues around the world crown their champions. But what Thüringer HC accomplished on Saturday was truly historic. For a record sixth time in a row, the team …