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Kicken und Dribbeln ohne Sehvermögen bis zur Deutschen Meisterschaft: Wenn der von Geburt an blinde Ali Can Pektas an seinen Gegnern vorbei dribbelt und den Ball danach am sehenden Torwart vorbei ins Tor schießt, dann fühlt er sich vor allem eins: frei. “Kein Hindernis umwinden müssen, keine Hürden haben. Das hat was von Freiheit”, sagt der 30-Jährige, der mit den Sportfreunden Blau Gelb Blista Marburg schon sechsmal deutscher Meister geworden ist.

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SUBTITLE: Hessischer Rundfunk SUBTITLE: Hessischer Rundfunk. This is Ali Can Pektas, 30, five-time German champion in blind football. There are rattles in the ball. This means Ali can hear where the ball is on the pitch. The goalkeeper, coach and a guide tell him where he is on the field and where the goal is.

This is how Ali can beat the sighted goalkeeper. *Shouts* There’s something about freedom in that. You simply don’t have to overcome any obstacles or have any hurdles. You are really just in this moment. That’s what I appreciate about football, because it can do that.

When you find something like that in life, when you have something where everything else around you doesn’t matter, then you’ve made it. Listening is important in blind football. Ali Can Pektas hears the rattling ball, hears his opponents shouting, hears his sighted coaches calling out to him where the goal is.

This means he can run, dribble and score goals as a blind man. Everything here is designed so that I can do that. Here the two bands are on the side. Otherwise it is a 40 x 20 meter space. The only obstacle is opponents. This is when you want to drive fast,

But you can’t do it on the highway because there’s a traffic jam. But you can accelerate on a racetrack at the Nürburgring. This is a moment, a situation, created for you to do this. That’s why it’s an extreme freedom that this triggers in me. I have a few things, it’s not that much,

But I kept a few things from back then. Maybe I’ll expand it a bit. Oh, here comes Ali in the kicker. 2007. Typical, his movements were still waiting at the time. Of course the highlight: first German champion, the celebration pictures. It started in 2006 when, by chance, I saw

A few wild guys and girls, you could almost say, young ladies running after a Pezziball, a large-sized Pezziball, in our sports hall, all of them playing football with it with great enthusiasm completely blind students. After that, when I saw that, it almost clicked for me. But I just had the idea.

“Peter, somehow this is my favorite sport.” “Why shouldn’t my students be able to do the same?” Blind football had only just arrived in Germany at that time. Peter Gößmann founded a blind football club at his school. Ali Pektas has been there since the beginning as a 13-year-old student.

Here he played in the first Marburg blind football tournament in 2007. 16 years later: The young people from the German Blind Studies Institute in Marburg train here . Ali visits the gym where it all started for him. Those were the beginnings, first touches with the ball, first training sessions.

We had no space back then. We have prepared for the championship here. It felt like my home back then, the hall. I felt like I was in there two or three times every day. For me it was this feeling of freedom that really shaped this hall back then.

Ali, who has been blind since birth , also feels a feeling of freedom when riding his bike. It is the sound that you drive towards. In such a large hall it is relatively easy. If you can roughly estimate the distance and know that I shouldn’t steer the handlebars any further to the right

Because you can hear the wall next to you. This is just like the gang in the game too. That’s why it fits quite well. So I can do my rounds. Come on, please stop. No, that won’t work. So now I’ve locked myself in, how convenient. Fits. Holds.

Ali’s old classroom in the blind study institute in Marburg. He was a student here from 2003. After primary school, I completed it at a normal school, i.e. at a sighted school. The question then arose for my parents: What happens next? In my opinion, they made a brave decision back then:

We want to get out of the comfort zone, the boy should go to boarding school, learn to become independent and be trained and taught according to his disability. His former teacher remembers it very well. Strenuous student. He didn’t just let people tell him something, but kept entering the discussion.

He had many clever ideas. But it was also sometimes necessary to set rules for him and set times. Homework certainly wasn’t always his favorite topic. When school was over, I usually had training or other interests, but I would rather play football. Homework, as you know it as a student, is done shortly beforehand.

I remember making them at 7:45am. I even did them in class. There was everything. You don’t have to lie to yourself. Learning normal school material is a particular challenge for blind people. When we look at a map of Europe, we can see at a glance the size of Germany

Compared to the size of Malta, or that Turkey only has a small European part. This is much more difficult for someone who has to grasp it tactilely. So he needs a lot more time. You can also see that Ali is gradually crossing the borders and feeling out important connecting routes.

Ali can also feel his first triumph at school: the trophy from his first German championship in 2008. Once you’ve won that, it’s just like getting an award for something. Once you’ve won a personal title or a team title , it’s addictive. You don’t stop because you know that

Once you’ve won it, you can win it again and again. Will title number 6 follow this season? But Ali has an even bigger dream with the national team. The highlight is the Paralympics. Germany has not yet been able to qualify for blind football. It would be an absolute dream if we succeeded

Because then I would have played everything and could have been in the sporting upper house. You can’t compete with better teams in the sport than you can at the World Cup and the Paralympics. To soak up this atmosphere in the Paralympic village, with all the athletes from all the nations.

This must be an unforgettable event. I would like to experience this not only on television. The German blind footballers have a day job. Ali works in cash management at Deutsche Bank. * Computer voice reads out loud at a very fast pace * Today in the home office at home in Ober-Ramstadt.

What I always try to do is to schedule my training sessions so that I can combine work and training. Today, when I have a home office day, I can squeeze in a training session during my lunch break, depending on where the meetings are. Or I can do a little workout before work.

Sometimes I do both, both and, before and lunch break. After work I can take the opportunity to go out onto the pitch today and do ball work, for example. Logically, Ali’s screen remains dark. To show how a blind person works on a PC, he makes the screen brighter.

A computer voice reads to Ali what is on the screen. For me, it’s always nice when the voice isn’t so human that it can do what it’s doing, fulfill its purpose, in a quicker way for me. I get more out of it than when she speaks to me very slowly. Now it’s halfway.

This means Ali can work without any problems. (Computer voice) List five objects. Link, Deutsche Bank, 1 of 5. Link, Corporates/Institutions, 2 of 5. Link, private clients, 3 of 5. Link, Client Logins, 4 of 5. Locations, end of list. However, there are also people who think Blind people couldn’t work at all.

It may be that there are a lot of things that you can’t imagine or don’t know. It’s okay to ask and be curious. Wanting to know is okay too. Wanting to acquire knowledge is also okay. What’s wrong is living with this prejudice and believing that it fits and that’s true.

Saying the phrase, “Can you even work?” is out of place. Then the question is more: “How do you actually work?” If you then ask me like this: “How do you actually work?” then you have at least understood that I work and want to know how it works.

Then I can help you. But if you ask: “Can you even work as a blind person?” Then I have to assume that you live in a world that is full of prejudices. It all depends on how you ask the question. Hello, Rasmus.

Well, boy, is everything okay? – Good afternoon, everything is very good. Very good. Nice at lunchtime. – It couldn’t be better. Ali works full time at Deutsche Bank. He also trains six to ten times a week. Ali will receive special paid leave from his employer for the World Cup in the summer.

However, he has to take his annual vacation to prepare. There are vacation days for the Bundesliga because we are traveling to Hamburg and leaving earlier on Friday. If you take the two, three, four days into account, you get 30 days that are dedicated solely to football. It is also the point

That the work must be performed for the bank. Anyone who bites the bullet has to bite the next one too: then that’s it, then you don’t have the vacation. Even if I didn’t use my vacation for relaxation purposes, I used it to do what I love to do most. And 10 more…

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. *Cell phone alarm* – And stop. Wow, awesome guy. Okay, Rasmus. Then, if you have time, we’ll see each other tomorrow. We do. So, see you then. We hear each other, my dear, ciao. – Bye. * Computer voice reads out at a very fast pace *

A few more messages just arrived. Take a quick look to see if it’s relevant. * Computer voice reads at a very fast pace * Okay, there was nothing. That is not important. * Computer voice reads out at a very fast pace * Okay, I’ll answer that straight away. Perfect.

Then we’ll put the whole thing back together from here. Ali also trains with sighted footballers at FC Ober-Ramstadt. It was a mutual wish of me and the national coach that we could get more units in for me during the week. Like most players, my journey to the club is extremely long.

Two hours there, two hours back, waiting times. I do things like feel for the ball, passing drills, warm-ups, sprints. When they move into the game form, their tactical form, I have my individual things like passing, goal-scoring training, certain feints, dribbling paths, so that I can refine things like that.

Two important things in Ali’s life: football and family. Two of his cousins ​​are at training today. Because he is important to us. – You said it really beautiful. Yes, I agree. He is important to us. I grew up with him. We used to play football together. Actually experienced the first shots together.

Exactly, and I think it’s nice to watch him do what he enjoys. He does it with a lot of passion and it’s just beautiful. Oh, the picture between my mom and Ali Can. I think that’s so beautiful. How old were you then, mom? I don’t know, 23 – 23?

He always loved tearing these things down here. From the bottles? He absolutely loved that. That was his hobby. Tear off these labels on the bottles. He always tore that down. He always thought it was great. He always tore down our wallpaper. Baba, Ali Can always tore down the wallpaper in the room.

At that time. – (Laughs) Thank you. Ali’s grandfather Hasan came to Germany from Turkey in the late 1960s. Ten years later, Ali’s parents. And in 1993 Ali was born, blind. Oh, oh, people. Ali Can with his angelic ringlets. Totally sweet, right? When she thinks back to that time, all her feelings come back,

In her native language, Turkish. * Speaks Turkish * How should I explain this? I don’t know. * Speak Turkish * * Speak Turkish * So, in principle, despite the fact that he had an obstacle, i.e. a health obstacle of his own, did it happen in the end that a door always opened

Where you still found hope? Exactly. – So similar. I am also very proud. He has done everything so far. He grabbed what he wanted. I’m happy too, of course. I didn’t think he would make it this far. But he’s here now. He studied, now he plays football.

He has his job. He is self-employed. He can do anything. But of course I am proud of what we as a family have given him and what he has achieved. Not everyone can do that. Ali Can Pektas often makes his way from his place of work, the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt,

To Marburg for football training. As if the journey itself didn’t require enough attention, Ali is also sometimes confronted with false care. A simple example that people say: I should ride the escalator. Walking stairs could be a problem. This is well-meant advice, absolutely, no question. But if I couldn’t walk stairs,

I probably wouldn’t run stairs. It’s a bit difficult sometimes, but no one means any harm. That’s why I don’t hold it against anyone. But there is always this need to prove yourself to others so that they understand. This is the crucial point that does not fit into the picture of life.

* S-Bahn * Because the S-Bahn stops in front of you and the doors it affects start beeping, you can decide: do you take the door to the right or left of you when you are standing between the doors. You take the next one. This is spatial hearing. Just like you have spatial vision.

This is not so different from spatial vision. You have what sounds closer to you in this case. As a sighted person, you can also distinguish whether the door to your right is closer to you than the door to your left. It’s the same with hearing. Nothing special in that sense. * Music *

Taking the train to Marburg for training and back home to Ober-Ramstadt takes up a lot of time for Ali. He often spends five hours on the road. That sucks. I’ve never thought “I’m quitting” until now. But “I can’t do any of this anymore” has probably been said many times. Sometimes it’s just tiring

When there are delays, especially on the return journey. On the way back you have the problem that you have to make sure it gets late at night. Ober-Ramstadt is not the most popular travel destination. It’s not like the railway schedules a train there every five minutes.

This means you have to wait a lot if you don’t catch the train. Then you stand at Frankfurt Central Station for an hour. I can imagine things being more pleasant at 11 p.m. Ali uses the travel time for emails. A computer voice reads out to him everything

That is displayed on his smartphone display. Ali depends on the train. There is no alternative. These are not the best conditions for a competitive athlete. There were often situations where training in Marburg had to be canceled for me. Because we have long travel times:

If training starts at 6:30 p.m. and you had planned to be there at 6:10 p.m. and the train is 45 minutes late, you turn around again in Frankfurt because it’s no longer worth it. Today Ali gets through well by train. His team’s goalkeeper will

Pick him up by car at Marburg train station and drive him to the soccer field. This is one of the few things I envy sighted people for. Otherwise I never had a feeling like that where I say: Why not? But driving, I envy her. This flexibility is the linchpin for me so

That I can organize my own time. If autonomous cars were to be on the roads at some point in 10, 15, 20 years, I think that would be an extreme relief for me and my everyday life because it would give me even more independence. That would be a great day when Ali

Drives his goalkeeper Nils Hemmenstädt to training! Work, long drives to training, without a break. What motivates Ali to take on these hardships? Ali always wants to be the best. But there are others too. There are others that are better. That’s the problem.

That’s where Ali wants to go and that’s where he invests everything. Unfortunately, he also suffers setbacks due to all the injuries and so on. But he just has to get through it. A few weeks later in Schiltigheim near Strasbourg in France. Preparatory tournament before the World Cup.

… Slowly bring the focus back up. Rest time is now over. Now let’s get started. We’ll start off easy. Inhale: make it long. Exhale: release. If you can play international matches, if you can represent your country at the highest stage, if you can compete at the highest level in sports terms,

You don’t need a lot of things to motivate you. But finding the healthy mix between: we let the day go, we live into the day, and we increase our focus, that is always the be-all and end-all and also the most difficult thing about this job. Ali and the German national team

Are preparing for their evening game against Turkey. Attention, stop, I didn’t say anything about going back down. Tense your stomach. Belly is firm. Fists tight too. Arms tight, tight. Breathe in. Exhale. Solve. Don’t forget to breathe, Ali. Outside on the pitch, England is playing against Japan.

One leg stand. We circle the ankle joint outwards on the right. Two teams that are more professional than Germany. Japan has founded its own association for blind football , which supports the team financially. Many English players only have to work part-time. The English Football Association pays them the rest. This is extremely important.

If you look at the top 5 to 10 teams in the world, they all have some kind of financial support. This means you don’t have to work 8, 9, 10 hours a day and then train or incorporate training. You can prioritize exercise.

It has to be that way if you want to be successful. Lunch, still seven hours until the game against Turkey, the European vice champions. The German national blind football team also receives financial support: travel, meals, accommodation, up to a certain budget, this is paid for by the German Sports Association for the Disabled

And also the Sepp Herberger Foundation of the DFB. The players themselves are not paid at all. It would be very important, if you can’t make a living from a sport like this, that opportunities arise, that the athletes are relieved, that you manage this balancing act, that you find an arrangement,

That you give half-days or even more days for the boys , because they represent their country and really give it their all. Yes, of course you wish there was or could be a way. This is a crucial point for us as we move forward. In my opinion, as long as we don’t

Manage to create more professional structures, there will perhaps be success because the players really want it. They do that, they invest everything. And I wish that for all of you. I really hope that they qualify for the Paralympics in Paris, even though it is very difficult.

But as long as the structures are still like this, it is not a basis or a level at which we can work. Ali has two full-time jobs: the unpaid one as a blind footballer and the paid one at Deutsche Bank. We talk very openly about

When it is necessary for him to be released for football and that is generally not just a given. You have to look at how you can organize it , also out of fairness to others who also have free time and are not released for it

. Ali’s annual vacation is often spent on football tournaments. Recovery after national team games is not possible. Processing all these impressions, not having much time for it and having to perform again the next day at work: getting this switch is not that easy. It’s still difficult for me, despite all these years.

I think it’s nature that humans would normally need a break like this. But that cannot be guaranteed. That means: Arrived yesterday, unpacked. And today it continues. How, I don’t know either. You drag yourself through the day or the week. Things are getting serious:

A tough test before the World Cup against vice-European champions Turkey. It’s always special for me because my roots are there. I always look forward to these international matches because they are special for me. Winning that would have even greater meaning for me. *fast music* Ali, come on, gang! Three, two, one, now!

Come on, go on, four, go on three, go on, two! Do not stop! * Whistle * Of course the game only works via communication. Unfortunately, we can’t make eye contact. There is a lot of shouting. Just by the sighted goalkeeper, the sighted coach on the side plus the guide behind the opponent’s goal.

This creates a picture in your head. This is what you use as a guide so that blind football works just like it does for sighted people. Because blind football has more physical contact elements than sighted football and therefore much more physical duels take place,

This is part of the sport, but also makes it more strenuous. * Music * * Cheers * * Whistles * * Cheers * * Whistles * Silence, please! *slow music* *whistle* Okay, they have a really big goalkeeper in goal. Here is the middle. Here is the center, left, left post. *Click*

This is the one on the right, Alex. *Click* And the center of the goal is here, here, here. * Whistle * * Cheers * * Shouts * Goal!! * Background noise fans * You lost the game. You can’t change it. You can’t influence it. You can’t start over.

It’s over. Then there is the disappointment. At that moment it is time to briefly introspect, far away from everyone else . I can’t do anything with these encouraging words; I need time for myself. Then it works again. But it is this moment in which you turn within yourself,

Collect your thoughts, perhaps tame your emotions and then everything will be fine again. * Announcement in French * I think we have already done a very good job. Sorry to all the fans watching at home and watching here. I’m sorry. It’s a shame to be deprived of the work you put in.

Especially when you have dominated the game and deserved to win. But that’s how it is in life, that’s how it is in sport. I’ve always said: football, the 30 minutes we play here, twice 15: that reflects life in a nutshell. Sometimes you’re lucky, sometimes you’re unlucky. Today we were very unlucky.

Shortly after the game, something happens that will change Ali’s life and that of his family. They didn’t want to tell me. Coincidentally, I received a message from a good friend of mine, who also plays for the FCO, where he said: “I wish you a lot of strength and stuff. It’s stupid what happened.”

He wrote me a message that said more or less that. I know exactly, I wrote to him: “What’s wrong? Why?” Then he said: “Don’t you know anything about this?” I’m like: What don’t I know about? Then he writes to me that my cousin caused a traffic accident.

I think it was a moment of shock or shock, that’s how I would describe it. We were kind of sitting… It was just before the graduation ceremony in France. Then this news came. At that moment you don’t know what to do, what to say, what to do.

Think about it for a moment, am I driving now? But purely theoretically: What can I change? What can I do? I just knew she was in a coma. Then we decided that it would be wiser if I came on Sunday morning, as originally planned.

Only then don’t go home, but straight to the hospital. Ali will be in the hospital with his family every day in the coming weeks. He wants to be there for his cousin Aleyna. (Screaming) Let’s go, Germany! No moment for Ali to take a breath, no pause. The World Cup is starting in England.

Ali’s chance to qualify for the Paralympics, to fulfill his big lifelong dream. To do this, Germany has to get into the top three: almost impossible, because the opponents in the preliminary round alone are too strong. It’s against world number one Argentina, the very good Chinese and first of all against hosts England. Corner!

But things get off to a good start: Ali’s Marburg teammate Taime Kuttig scores the winning goal. It will be the only one in the preliminary round. Germany loses to China and eventual world champion Argentina . For Ali, the dream of the Paralympics is shattered. Maybe it should happen again.

Of course we will try it all again after everything has settled down and the disappointment has been digested. But then we want to get back to it. And of course I hope that we can somehow make this dream come true for ourselves in 2028.

That would be a very good end to my career, I would almost say. Then I just did everything. I don’t know if I’ll stop straight away. But at least that’s the goal I would still like to achieve. Ali still has one sporting goal for the season. Mid-September in Cologne, last matchday

Of the Blind Football Bundesliga. The Sport-Freunde Blau-Gelb Blista Marburg and 1. FC St. Pauli are tied at the top of the table. With a win against Borussia Dortmund, Marburg would almost certainly be German champions. I knew I wanted to shape the game, decide the moment.

That’s what I had in mind after the World Cup: If I now get trust and the opportunities, I want to pay it back. That’s what I had in mind: becoming champions with my goal. I didn’t dream about it, but a daydream where I thought if I could dream the game,

I would do it like this. It’s all the better that it happened the same way. Come on, Borussia! * Cheers * (announcement) We would like to say again: the number 10 from Marburg with the 1-0, Ali Can Pektas! * Cheers * Final score: 1 to 0 for Marburg.

Now St. Pauli in the brown jerseys is not allowed to win 4 to 0 against Stuttgart in the red jerseys. Then Marburg is champion. And St. Pauli seems to want to know it again: 1 to 0. But Stuttgart equalizes. And even turns the game around, scores the score 2 to 1.

The final score. Marburg is German champion. * Cheers * (singing) German champion, German champion, ole, ole. (singing) German champion, German champion, ole, ole. (singing) Ali, hold up the bowl, shalalalala! Family reunion in Ober-Ramstadt. This is very important to Ali and his relatives. They meet as often as possible, for example on birthdays.

Ali can’t always be there because of football. But today he has to. Because today he is celebrated. Ali’s cousin Aleyna is also there. She is feeling better again, three months after her serious car accident. I can only describe it as a relief. For me it was just this relief

And also just this slow return to normality. And then also: We have now moved closer together. But now we can just enjoy what’s coming to us. We have now, especially you, but we have also achieved something good. Then the pleasure slowly comes through again. We are cousins ​​though.

But we grew up more like siblings. In the family, Ali gains strength for his life, a life that is often so stressful. But here we laugh together. Hey, Ali Can? You always… – Özge was always annoyed. Thanks for letting everyone know. – Tell me!

We always painted them at night. She didn’t think that was so funny. A childhood full of joy is what made Ali strong. He is the family’s favorite, even though he was sometimes very cheeky as a child, as his cousin Talya remembers. A point where I

Never noticed the difference between the two of us when we played football. As a child it passed me by anyway. But never at the football game, because you shot me a lot and I knew you did it on purpose. I knew you really meant it that way.

That could certainly be the case, yes. My grandpa is definitely our biggest fan. He always collects all the newspaper reports and has had them all from the beginning. It is this togetherness, the love, that makes Ali the person he is. And his ambition and absolute will to achieve everything

He sets his mind to. A lot of people don’t realize he’s blind. My children also just learned this from scratch, or heard and found out that he is blind. They said: “Huh, what? He plays football, mom, he goes to work. He takes the train. He’s blind?”

My children are only 5 and 4. This is incomprehensible to them. But you don’t notice it because he’s just so open. Ali often makes life look easy , no matter how much work he puts into it. Overall I’m very satisfied. I have achieved a lot of what I wanted to achieve.

That is something that is very difficult to claim. That’s why it’s something that I really look at with a lot of, yes, pride and say, these are really things that I worked for, that I achieved. Especially of a sporting nature, where I put in a lot of time.

But also this solidarity, which for me in this family, in all the friendships that comes with it, also shapes me a lot and makes up a large part of my life. These are also moments where I simply say that it gives me satisfaction. That’s something that makes up the picture for me.

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