{"id":892,"date":"2026-03-30T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:19:08","slug":"%f0%9f%93%b8-633-days-late-but-germany-get-a-handball-pen-in-stuttgart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/892\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8 633 days late, but&#8230;: Germany get a handball pen in Stuttgart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged handball by\u00a0Marc Cucurella in the Euro match in Stuttgart between Germany and Spain remained a talking point long after the tournament had ended.\u00a0Stuart Attwell was the video assistant referee at the time and ultimately decided not to intervene. Among fans, it remained a case of \u201cif only&#8230;\u201d \u2014 and of course Germany\u2019s quarter-final exit from the Euros.<\/p>\n<p>633 days later, the German national team is back in Stuttgart. This time against Ghana. FIFA showed a sense of humor by appointing none other than Stuart Attwell as referee for the friendly. And the Englishman was called into action shortly before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo Stiller\u2019s shot was blocked by Wolfsburg player\u00a0Jonas Adjetey with his arm. This time, after a VAR review, Attwell pointed to the spot. A belated bit of redemption, if you like. Kai Havertz calmly converted the resulting penalty to give Germany the lead.<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/de\/news\/633-tage-zu-spaet-aber-dfb-team-bekommt-seinen-handelfer-in-stuttgart-42637486\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged handball by\u00a0Marc Cucurella in the Euro match in Stuttgart between Germany and Spain remained a talking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[334,364,5,209,758,327,759,156,757,218,760],"class_list":{"0":"post-892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-angelo-stiller","9":"tag-german-national-team","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-ghana","12":"tag-handball","13":"tag-kai-havertz","14":"tag-marc-cucurella","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-stuart-attwell","17":"tag-stuttgart","18":"tag-wolfsburg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}