Mannheim. The eight best hockey teams from Germany will meet on Saturday and Sunday on the grounds of the Mannheimer HC at the Final Four 2021. For the first time since 2019, German field hockey champions for women and men will be chosen again. Last year, the corona pandemic thwarted the final four at the MHC, and the 2021 Final Four is still dominated by the pandemic: Spectators are not allowed in the MHC Arena at the weekend.
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“We’re going on the air on Saturday from 9 a.m. and on Sunday from 11.30 a.m. with our partner www.twitch.tv/trops4,” says MHC Marketing Director Valentin Heyl, emphasizing that sports fans will be able to follow the Final Four 2021 comprehensively from home .
However, the MHC, together with the German Hockey Association (DHB), is not only the host of the DM finals, but also has two irons in the fire itself. In the men’s race on Saturday (7 p.m.) with the duel between the MHC and Uhlenhorst Mülheim, the last DM final to date will be relaunched, when the Mülheim team narrowly defeated the Mannheim team 5: 4 in Krefeld in 2019 and thus again after 2018 won the title.
MHC player Linus Müller was on the pitch in Krefeld at the time. He now wants to do better with the blue-white-reds, after all, the MHC men also celebrated the championship in the last Final Four in 2017 on their own facility. “We know that we have to avoid penalty corners so that Lukas Windfeder doesn’t get a chance, but in the quarter-finals against Harvestehude we did well against Michael Körper,” said the national player in the MHC jersey before the duel against the Defending champion optimistic.
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Enrich with staff concerns
“I know the Final Four tournament from Spain and am now looking forward to my first Final Four in Germany, even if unfortunately no fans can be there,” said the current MHC men’s coach Andreu Enrich, not burdened by the defeat in the 2019 final. “They will only play if they are one hundred percent fit,” said Enrich, leaving the potential for Teo Hinrichs, Guido Barreiros and Justus Weigand open in the semifinals.
The first participant in the men’s final (Sunday, 4 p.m.) will be determined by Rot-Weiss Cologne and the Berlin HC on Saturday at 4 p.m. At 1 p.m. on Saturday, the MHC women will meet Rot-Weiss Köln in the second women’s semi-final. “With the background story, the duel against Cologne has an extra flair”, MHC player Sonja Zimmermann is aware of the special constellation. After all, there are two national team-mates on the Cologne side with Cécile Pieper and Nike Lorenz who still wore the MHC jersey in the last Final Four in 2019 in Krefeld.
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“We only prevailed against Mülheim in the quarter-finals in three games, but Cologne also had to play three games against UHC Hamburg,” says MHC women’s coach Nicklas Benecke. While national player Naomi Heyn is still out of the MHC, Benecke is hoping for Charlotte Gerstenhöfer. In the final on Sunday (1 p.m.), the winner of the semi-final game will face the winner of the first duel (Saturday, 10 a.m.) between the Düsseldorf HC and the defending champions Club on the Alster from Hamburg.
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