Estonia-Coach: Full body shave at Punkt

Estonia’s national coach Martin Reim has jokingly announced a full-body shave in the event of a points win in the European Championship qualifying match against the DFB selection on Tuesday (20.45 in the LIVETICKER) in Mainz. “I’d be willing to do that and shave my hair off,” Rhyme said Monday.

The record national player of his country had been asked whether he was planning a similar action as the Belarusian coach Igor Kriyushenko. Before the qualifying game on Saturday against the DFB eleven (0:2), he had announced that he would shave off his schnauzer if he was successful.

“Of course I came here with the goal of taking points home with me,” said Reim in the Opel Arena. But “hard work” is waiting for number 96 in the world rankings. His players would have to “park the bus and defend it with eleven men,” said Reim.

The 48-year-old still fears for the battered midfielder Konstantin Vasilyev. Defender Karol Mets said: “We have to be very brave, with our heads on the ball, otherwise there will be a rude awakening. The Germans are very good at handling the ball in the tightest of spaces.”

Rhyme told them not to be afraid. The Germans also have weaknesses, they’re not unbeatable.”