That is why the Germany-Netherlands match was not shown on TV tonight

In a few months, the Women’s Soccer World Cup will start. In preparation, Germany will play the Netherlands on Good Friday. But the game is only available via streaming.

Anyone who can’t do without football on Good Friday gets the German women’s national team against the Netherlands from 8 p.m. So while the men’s Bundesliga is on pause due to the holiday, the squad around captain Alexandra Pope is in action. A few months before the World Championships in Australia and New Zealand (July 20 to August 20), the vice-champion of Europe challenged the Sittard to choose “Orange”.

But if you want to watch the game on TV, you won’t find it. Even though ZDF had the rights to the game, they decided to show something else. This was confirmed by the broadcaster “Bild”. One of them shows “a fun and thoughtful TV movie of Good Friday. Live broadcast of sporting events is a modern means of transmission – the USA-Germany women’s international soccer match of November 11, 2022 was also shown in live broadcast on sportstudio.de and in ZDFmediathek”.

The game caused debates on the Internet at the time, with the broadcaster preferring to show an old episode of “BergDocker” despite its late launch at 1am. The reaction of national team coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg: “I always hope for real matches.”

Today, Good Friday, ZDF will be showing an episode of “Terra X” from 7:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., before “Der Alte” continues until 9:15 p.m. Then the sender of the comedy “Who feeds the hare?” Established.

But: In addition to live broadcasts in the ZDF media library, there is also another option for watching the game. On t-online you can find the match test for free from 8pm in the live stream ticker.