On her comeback on free TV on RTL, Monica Lierhaus will also report on the German national soccer team.
According to a message from the broadcaster, the 52-year-old will be a reporter for the broadcast of an international match alongside moderator Florian König in June. Opponents of the DFB team, the location and the exact time have not yet been officially determined.
The Hamburg resident has another big assignment for RTL at the Special Olympics in Berlin from June 17th to 25th. RTL is the media partner of the inclusive sports event. Lierhaus will also be available to RTL as an inclusion consultant. RTL News Managing Director Stephan Schmitter announced her comeback in March in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.
“Exciting projects with extraordinary people”
RTL and they would realize “exciting projects with extraordinary people”, Lierhaus was quoted in the message. “The connection between sport and inclusion is particularly important,” she said. The Special Olympics in Berlin are a great event, “and it is a nice task to bring the athletes closer to the people and to report on their achievements”. And of course she is “especially looking forward to excursions about football and the national team again”.
In the past few years, Lierhaus had mainly worked for the pay-TV channel Sky. Due to complications from a brain operation in 2009, she had been in a coma for several months. The Hamburg native had previously moderated the “Sportschau” on ARD. On Thursday, before the RTL broadcast of Bayer Leverkusen’s Europa League quarter-final first leg against Union Saint-Gilloise, Lierhaus will talk about her plans on RTL in an interview.
