United Volleys: the Volleyball legend Schöps makes more

An immediate end of career had not excluded Jochen Schöps. As the Coronavirus stopped in March, the football League, the 36-Year-old for the first time a few thoughts about whether he would return once more to the grid. It's the abrupt conclusion of the line was to have been under an outstanding athletic career.

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Three times volleyball player of the year, Champions League winner, multiple German champion and Cup winner as well as a bronze medal at the 2014 world Cup – all this and much more is in the success of the balance-sheet of the native Schwarzwälder's, led for many years, the selection of the German Volleyball Federation (DVV) as a captain.

it is Now clear that for the diagonal player. The United Volleys, which he had hired after a half-season in Qatar in January, surprisingly, set during the attack on the established top teams from Berlin and Friedrichshafen for another year on his help. The request of the state of Hesse, the second made as a table before the forced break, hoping for a first final, could not and would not resist Schöps. On Wednesday, the decision was made public.

The family man is already from his previous location at the lake of Constance, together with his wife Anna and the twins Lotte and Theo in a cottage in the South of Frankfurt to move. "For us, it is a Chance to move our center of life," he explains. Both for yourself as well as for his wife, who holds a PhD in stadium management, he sees the Main for the future good career prospects. Already in the last season, Schöps wanted to sniff at the Volleys in the work behind the Scenes in this Plan he pursued.

in Addition, he feels prepared, on the field one more time to attack. To slipped the beginning of the year to the Team "inside", the popular newcomer at the time, readily accepted the Backup role behind Milija Mrdak. He would have been able to not submit to the Serb approach, says Schöps modest. This seems to have been stable, while he had to himself, to work after a long ball break and the Practice previously in Doha with a bunch of players at a lower level, again on his usual high Level.