Bundesliga: Kiessling confesses to cheating during training

Five months after the end of his career, former national soccer player Stefan Kießling has admitted to cheating during individual training in preparation.

“You get a heart rate monitor that stores all your runs. Since my wife is very athletic, she did one or two runs with her heart rate monitor on the cross-country trainer according to my specifications – so well that nobody could understand it,” the former goal scorer from Bayer Leverkusen told Sport Bild.

The 34-year-old, who now works as an assistant to Leverkusen’s sports managing director Rudi Völler, admitted openly: “I didn’t make all the runs one hundred percent in any preparation. Not once.”