🍻 For German Beer Day: The funniest beer showers | OneFootball

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What would the Germans do without their beer? Beer showers would suddenly become just ordinary showers, and footballers wouldn't be able to run away from them. It's a good thing there's a German Beer Day, along with pictures and videos that show us not every beer shower is perfect.

Beer Shower? But Not for Manuel Neuer

Avoiding a beer shower? No problem, thinks Bayern's keeper. The beer attacks from his colleagues failed.

Close but Missed

Holding a teammate in your arms and getting showered with beer on the side? Xabi Alonso didn't quite manage that after Bayern's championship title in 2017.

📸 Matthias Hangst - 2017 Getty Images

No Big Glass? No Problem!

In the summer of 2024, Hoffenheim's coach Christian Ilzer celebrated the double with Sturm Graz. However, only small glasses were available for the beer shower.

Beer Shower for Everyone

While there are smaller glasses in Austria, the promotion in Hamburg is simply celebrated with bottles. After all, you can get everyone wet with those (including journalists).

Foam Party After Cup Victory

Had Naldo already half-drunk the beer? The beer shower for coach Dieter Hecking after the cup victory against Dortmund turned more into a foam shower.

Cool, Cooler, Alonso

There are probably few coaches in the Bundesliga who took a beer shower as coolly as the Werkself coach after winning the championship in 2024.

Let Them Finish Speaking First

They are polite in Frankfurt. At least after the cup win in 2018, when Boateng & Co. let their then-coach Kovac finish speaking before sneaking up and dousing him with what felt like 23 bottles of beer.

Why Only When Winning Titles?

That refreshments with a cold one aren't only possible during championships or cup victories was proven by 1. FC Köln during the farewell of their legends Hector and Horn.

Double is Better

Why have a beer shower with just one glass of beer? That seemed silly to Stuttgart's Daniel Ginczek after the 2017 championship, so he grabbed two glasses. Hannes Wolf must have been pleased.

That Went Wrong

Stefan Leitl had just been pleased with his clean, dry shirt at the press conference after Fürth's promotion when the team crashed in and drenched the coach with beer, champagne, and an ice bucket.

Bayern Stars Still Need Practice

But it's not just beer shower fails. This clip shows that footballers also face challenges when tapping beer.

This is, of course, just a small selection of the best beer showers, but also the fails. Which legendary beer showers do you remember? Feel free to write them in the comments.

📸 CHRISTOF STACHE