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he was a football player and after a serious injury became a youth coach (SpVg
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From 1 February 2008, Calmund presented a video blog on his website Calli.tv, in which he published his weekly assessments of the respective
Bundesliga match day and other football events. On the phone, he explained the course of the football world to an imaginary interlocutor. The website is now
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