Senior physician Dr. Tobias Schmenn will be looking after the national team as team physician /
Dr. Ulrich Schneider, Head Physician Sports Medicine Hellersen, will also be there
From July 20 to August 20, the German women's national team will be playing for the World Cup title in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Tobias Schmenn, senior physician for endoprosthetics at the Hellersen Sports Clinic in Lüdenscheid, and Dr. Ulrich Schneider, head physician at Hellersen Sports Medicine, will also be taking part. Since November 2021, Dr. Tobias Schmenn has been looking after the female eleven as team doctor, taking over from Dr. Bernd Lasarzewski, head physician at the Hellersen Sports Clinic. Lasarzewski cared for the women's national team for many years before passing on the baton to Dr. Tobias Schmenn. In his role as team physician, Dr. Tobias Schmenn will travel to Australia next week. "I am very happy to be able to be there. That is already something special. But of course, in my position, a certain amount of tension is also part of it," says the senior physician from the Hellersen Sports Clinic.
His team colleague Carsten Lueg, who also worked at the Hellersen Sports Clinic for many years, is already on site and will accompany the team's group matches. Likewise sports clinic physician Dr. Ulrich Schneider. For him, it is the first time that he accompanies the women's national team. "The medical team should be expanded for the World Cup by an internist colleague. The contact to me and the national team came through Dr. Tobias Schmenn and Carsten Lueg. We all know each other from our days together at the Hellersen Sports Clinic," explains Dr. Ulrich Schneider, who is also very pleased to be live at this event.
It is the ninth Women's World Cup. 32 nations are competing in 64 matches. The German eleven already won the first match within the group phase 6:0 against Morocco on July 24. The other group matches will take place on Sunday, July 30, against Colombia and on Thursday, August 3, against South Korea, before moving on to the round of 16 from August 5.
"I'm hoping for a special success in Australia and New Zealand, of course. Possibly even the title. That's the sporting aspiration. Being in top health is of course an important prerequisite for this," says Dr. Tobias Schmenn. The European Championship in England in 2022 was the first major tournament to which the senior physician accompanied the national team. To be there for the World Cup is another very special honor for him.
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