No more home advantage
Media: DFL is planning new rules for ball boys after century gate
Media: DFL is planning new rules for ball boys after century gate
03/28/2025, 7:12 p.m.
Most recently, teenager Noel Urbaniak was one of the three leading actors of a strange goal of the national team as a ball boy. In the Bundesliga, the rules for ball children could be stricter.
At the Nation’s League second leg between Germany and Italy, someone wrote a heroic story that one would not have expected: the wide-wake ball boy Noel Urbaniak gave DFB captain Joshua Kimmich to the ball so that he could quickly put on Jamal Musiala. It was all alone in the five -meter space, which the Italians led by goalkeeper Gianliugi Donnarumma for a short -term discussion near the penalty point.
Musiala had transformed the quick-thought of the ball boy Urbaniak, not particularly precise Kimmich corner in the backward run into which the goal, which from then on, described as a century goal for the meantime 2-0 in the 3: 3 in Dortmund Westfalenstadion. The gate had ensured amusement internationally and Italy’s coach Luciano Spalletti gave an Italian satire price, the Golden Tapir.
However, according to a media report, at least in Germany, the success of the ball boy should not repeat itself: As the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “Bild” match, the German Football League (DFL) had agreed everywhere this week on new uniform rules.
In the future, the ball children should act as in the Premier League and can no longer contact the players directly with a ball throw. In the mother country of football, the balls are not thrown at the players, but are placed on extra hats. As a result, there should be no home advantage. According to the newspapers, the English model already exists in Germany: in Augsburg, Hoffenheim, Kiel and Leverkusen.
The 15-year-old Ball boy Urbaniak had brought it to fame after his ball throw. He later spoke of the fact that the number of followoks on his Tikok channel were skyrocketed. “I get news all the time like ‘Noel, you doer’ ‘Germany won’ because of this. I had to breathe. … blatant what has become of it. All of Germany knows me now,” said the student not without pride at RTL/NTV. It could be the last ball boy to whom such happiness has happened.
