World Darts Championship - Hercules needs time off: The other German darts starter
After his World Championship ticket was bought and before planning his trip, darts player Dragutin Horvat had to clarify some basic things. "I have to talk to my boss first. I don't have a vacation. I don't have time off," said the 47-year-old Horvat immediately after the successful qualifier. "Maybe I'm not even allowed to go to London. I don't even know."
Horvat was of course allowed to go to London after all. He will play his World Championship opener (21:00/DAZN and Sport1) against Belgian Mike De Decker. Seven years after his debut and the 3-0 defeat against Australian Simon Whitlock, Horvat returns to Alexandra Palace. Horvat's difference to the other four German starters at the World Championship: the man from Kassel - nicknamed Hercules - still works as a warehouse clerk and has to coordinate his numerous darts appointments with his job.
When asked how he got into the sport, Horvat told Hit Radio FFH: "Like a virgin to a child! I actually wanted to watch soccer in the pub and there were three men playing darts in the next room and they were looking for a fourth man. They tried to persuade me for hours - I didn't want to, I was too stupid to throw any darts in there, get them back and throw them in again." After they had convinced him, Horvat said that after six hours he was the best of the round.
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- Germany's representative in the World Darts Championship, Dragutin Horvat, spoke about his initial introduction to the sport, recounting his serendipitous discovery of darts at a pub in London, where he was eventually persuaded to join a game by some locals.
- Despite Germany's strong showing in the World Darts Championship, including its current participants such as Dragutin Horvat, the nation's sporting landscape is not solely dominated by darts, with other sports like soccer also enjoying widespread popularity and following.
Source: www.stern.de
