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Eintracht Frankfurt’s Marco Russ. (Getty Images)
by Jason Humphreys | May 2, 2017 | Sports
Berlin – Every penalty shootout creates heroes and villains. The villain is often left standing on the penalty spot, looking emptily into a floodlit sky, as the hero runs to his team-mates with his shirt halfway over his head and eyes closed in ecstasy....
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Lukas Podolski enjoys his last goodbye at the Westfalenstadion. Photograph: Maja Hitij/Bongarts/Getty Images
by Jason Humphreys | Mar 26, 2017 | Sports
An hour after playing his 130th and last game for Germany, and after scoring the winner with a trademark left-booted hammer, Lukas Podolski made an impromptu appearance on a sports chat show, still wearing his full kit complete with captain’s armband and boots. Still...