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Gil Ofarim: His fondest memory is about sports

Gil Ofarim
His fondest memory revolves around sports


Gil Ofarim spent many hours on the tennis court when he was a child.

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“What if …”, Gil Ofarim philosophizes from time to time. Before he discovered his love for music, he was primarily devoted to tennis.

Gil Ofarim (38, “Alles auf Hope”) is best known in Germany as a musician. His most beautiful childhood memory, however, has hardly anything to do with sounds or lyrics. In the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” he recalls: “I stayed up all night when the men played in Australia or at the US Open. I wanted to be like them, I wanted to be a professional tennis player.” At the tender age of three he got his first tennis racket and a ball.

“My greatest role model was Andre Agassi, I inhaled every serve and every movement of the top stars back then,” says Ofarim. For him, the tennis greats of the time were rock stars. Does he regret taking a different path with his music career? “Sometimes I have a very, very brief moment in which I think: what if …”, the 38-year-old philosophizes. “But in our generation nobody would be with Rafa anyway [Rafael Nadal, Anm. d. Red.] or Roger [Federer] stopped by. “The artist doesn’t regret” that I quit, but I miss it sometimes “.

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