Bibiana Steinhaus: On Sunday she whistles her first top game!
We! Wolln! The! Bibi see, we want to see the Bibi, we want, we want, we want to see the Bibi! (Please! ;-*)
Now it's nearly time: Bibiana Steinhaus makes her Bundesliga debut on Matchday 3 at the game Hertha BSC against Werder Bremen!
Bibiana Steinhaus is one of the best!
In May, the German Football Association finally selected the chief police officer for the highest class!
She is one of the best: Six times the DFB honored her as Referee of the Year, twice she was honored as World Referee of the Year.
Maybe she has the talent to be impartial with her father? He was also a referee. Anyway, she was already leading her first games in the women's league at the age of 20. In 2001, two years later, she was already allowed to play in the men's regional league.
In 2005, she was admitted to international duty by FIFA, and in 2011 she impressed at the Women's World Cup with such a good performance that she was allowed to whistle the final.
The Bundesliga remained taboo
But in the Bundesliga she did not let the DFB partout! For the last ten years she has run matches in the Second Division, but promotion has always been reserved for her male counterparts.
Different fan clubs and Bibiana Steinhaus initiatives have been pillorying this for years. A Facebook Fanpage with over 1,000 subscribers posted numerous articles by 2015, in which Steinhaus is praised by the whole world and in between slogans such as "Who wants the best, can not do without women."
#Bibiana stone house toi, toi, toi. Was also time the #dfb jumps over his shadow. #gym
? Bridges (@cologne2014) August 19, 2017The first woman in the Bundesliga - that requires strength!
For comparison: Felix Brych, who began his career as DFB referee just like Bibi in 1999, gave his Bundesliga debut in 2004, five years later. With Günter Perl it took nine years until his rise to the premier class.
At Bibiana Steinhaus? 18 years! Of course, this MUST NOT have anything to do with being a woman. But it shows that her way to the Bundesliga was harder than that of her colleagues ...
#Bundesliga: outrageous editor of the daily newspaper @world asks this question #bibianasteinhaus: pic.twitter.com/JipSRJ9Igw
? Steffen Roski (@sroski) August 20, 2017And even now that she's at her destination, she does not have it easy. Editors who ask inappropriate questions, commentators who discuss their hairstyle, and lots of stupid jokes and hostility.
Pun log: #bibianasteinhaus #domenblinde
? Bierre Priece (@Sokengruch) August 20, 2017In addition, one has the feeling that she is now the first woman in the Bundesliga under special observation ...
The reactions? Mostly positive!
But Bibi takes that cool. She understands that "in a way, it is also a habituation process". Above all, she sees her rise as a "huge challenge and a great task," as welt.de said. Moreover, the reactions that arrive at her are mostly positive.
Most of them honor national and international media with lines such as "The rise of Bibiana Steinhaus" or "With her, great cinema will be in the Bundesliga".
Coaches and players have congratulated her and stand behind her.
So, everyone is afraid that a woman will not do her job as well as the men she gets upset with every week?
