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Saarlouis (dpa) - The adoption of little Nicha from Thailand is one of the best that the former football manager Reiner Calmund (72) claims to have ever happened.

"That is happiness seen for us every day, felt happiness and felt happiness," said Calmund in the Sky documentary "My Story" (Sunday) about the joy he and his wife Sylvia would have with the ten-year-old today.

In 2013 they decided to adopt the then two-year-old Nicha from an orphanage because it didn't work out with their own child.

Several attempts at artificial insemination were unsuccessful.

The road to approval of the adoption was a long one.

When Sky presenter Riccardo Basile asked where the little girl would be today if he and his wife hadn't brought her, Calmund fought back tears.

After a short pause he said: “When I see the nursery now, our life with Nicha, then I have to say something nasty: Sylvia, I'm actually very happy that you had to suffer so and that we couldn't get a biological child up to have.

If we had done that, we wouldn't have our sweetheart, and she is more than anything for me. "

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Calmund said he had five other children.

"The best thing is that all the other children are happy with the little princess," said Calmund.

People in Saarlouis are very happy: "We are very happy that we, including Nicha, have found a new home in Saarland."

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My story - the life of Reiner Calmund at Sky Sport