Gerd Gottlob

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Gerd Gottlob (2018)

Gerd Gottlob (born October 27, 1964 in Reinbek ) is a German journalist and football commentator .

life and career

After graduating from high school in 1984, Gottlob completed a traineeship at the Stormarner Tageblatt in Bad Oldesloe at the Emil-von-Behring-Gymnasium in Großhansdorf . He then worked for five years in the sports department of the Hamburger Morgenpost , for which he mainly reported on the games of FC St. Pauli and Hamburger SV . Gottlob played football at TuS Hoisdorf as a libero and made it into the national league at the age of 18, but then had to stop playing football for professional reasons.

In 1992 he moved to the sports department of the North German Broadcasting Corporation . As a football reporter, he now specialized, among other things, in English league football . Since 1993 (initially as assistant to Gerhard Delling ) he has been involved in major women's football tournaments; since 1997 he has been commenting on live games. Gottlob analyzed the German women's cup finals and international matches of the German women's national team several times for ARD .

In 1998 in France , Gottlob was accredited for the first time at a men's soccer world championship . For 3sat he commented on the preliminary round match between Belgium and South Korea . After Gerd Rubenbauer had surprisingly withdrawn before the 2006 World Cup and ended his career as a football reporter, Gottlob joined the ARD team as the third commentator (alongside Reinhold Beckmann and Steffen Simon ). He received praise in the press for his reporting; the weekly newspaper Die Zeit described him as the "best man in the first".

After the World Cup in Germany, he began to comment on live games of the German national soccer team for ARD, alternating with Steffen Simon and Tom Bartels . His first appearance in a live game for a German national team was on October 13, 2007 in the European Championship qualifier against Ireland (0-0) in Dublin . Since November 2009, Gottlob has been head of the sports program at NDR . As a commentator, he was in the 2010 World Cup , the 2012 European Football Championship , the 2014 World Cup and the soccer 2018 World Cup . He was also part of the team at the European Football Championship in 2016 and commented on the final for the first time.

Private

Thank God he is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buttje Rosenfeld: EM 2016 Thank God! A hamburger in the final. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. Morgenpost Verlag GmbH, July 10, 2016, accessed on December 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Günter Fink: "This is the chance of your life, you lucky guy". In: (THE) WORLD. June 6, 2006, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Die Zeit , June 29, 2006
  4. ↑ Gerd Gottlob new NDR sports director NDR press release, accessed on January 31, 2012
  5. ↑ Our boys in Africa Hamburger Abendblatt from June 22, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Thank goodness, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and football commentator
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinbek , Germany