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During the Confederation Cup 2005 and during the Football World Cup 2006 he joined the German football team on their trip.

At every match he sat on the trainer ’ s bank and, by order and for account of national trainer trainer Jürgen Klinsmann, he prepared films which were later shown to the players in order to prepare them for an upcoming match.

The two-hour documentary film on the world cup, produced from over 100 hours of filming material, was presented to the German national football team on the 14th of August 2006 as a preview and premiered in cinemas on the 5th of December 2006 under the title Deutschland.

Ein Sommermärchen.

The film had more than 4 million viewers and was a big success.

The net profits of the film were donated to SOS-Children ’ s Villages.