Cologne / Würzburg - In a remote little hall near Wuerzburg flays himself Dirk Nowitzki (29) a day for his great goal: the Olympics in Beijing. His mentor, Holger Geschwindner: "The others have not pause. But we are already working. Nothing comes from nothing! "
From 14 Germany then occurs in July in Athens for Olympic qualification in the tournament. Nowitzki's last chance to fulfill his lifelong dream: "The Olympics are the greatest thing for any athlete." And if it works, is the most valuable Dirkules German Olympian of all time. EXPRESS learned: The superstar is legendary for 12 million euros insured.
Nowitzki was injured, gets his NBA club Dallas Mavericks a failure-compensation. Testing times annual salary (paid club boss Mark Cuban) is downscaled to the games in which he is missing through injury.
As the NBA season has 82 games, Cuban would get 142,000 euros per breakdown of compensation. In the worst case, the entire annual salary of 12 million euros.
The Basketball Association is paying for just under € 200,000 insurance premium. DBB sports director Wolfgang Brenscheidt: "The agreement between us is a standard story. Whereby the net salary of Dirk's season in the years always slightly increased. "
The renowned sports insurer Dieter Prestin (ex-professional footballer of the 1st FC Cologne) developed from the deal as a broker: "Dirk is one of my most prominent clients."
