The stadium announcer and TV presenter Arnd Zeigler said he was threatened and insulted on the Internet during Werder Bremen's 2-0 draw at FC Augsburg and he therefore wants to deactivate his Facebook page.
"Since there are apparently people who take a lost football game as an opportunity to threaten, harass and insult me while the game is running, I first deactivated the comment function, blocked the personal messages and will take this page offline tomorrow" , wrote the 55-year-old on Saturday on his personal page.
What was the specific cause or content of the insults and threats initially remained open.
"I have a life.
I have a family.
It was all about football, ”wrote Zeigler.
Born in Bremen, he has been the stadium announcer at Werder since 1997 and moderates the television program “Zeigler's wonderful world of football” and is part of the team of moderators from the “Sportschau club”.
Werder slipped into relegation rank 16 on Saturday on the penultimate matchday of the Bundesliga due to the 2-0 defeat in Augsburg.
As the club announced on Sunday, coach Florian Kohfeldt will no longer sit on the bench on the last and decisive Bundesliga matchday of the season in a week.
Werder separated from the 38-year-old after the disappointment in Augsburg, until the duel with Borussia Mönchengladbach in a week, club icon Thomas Schaaf will train the Bremen team.