“This is going wrong”
Ex-BTSV professional with a laughing attack in a TV interview
Updated on January 17, 2026 – 1:49 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
There has to be a bit of fun: Former Braunschweiger Phillip Tietz is now storming for Mainz 05. After an initial sense of success, he provides an entertaining TV moment.
From 2012 onwards, Phillip Tietz stormed for Eintracht Braunschweig. The attacker first went through the youth teams, then finally made the jump to the professionals. However, things didn’t always go smoothly for Tietz there. In 2018, his time in his hometown was over. But in his subsequent stops things went steadily uphill – and all the way to the Bundesliga.
Within the German elite league, he moved from FC Augsburg to Mainz 05 at the beginning of the year and is in the middle of a relegation battle with his new employer. But things have been going well in Mainz since Tietz’s arrival: at the start of the year they held off Union Berlin to a 2-2 draw. Last Tuesday, Mainz won the basement duel with 1. FC Heidenheim 2-1.
Four points from two games pushed Mainz to 16th place in the table. Tietz was in the starting line-up in each case and even contributed an assist against Heidenheim. In a correspondingly good mood, he then appeared in front of the cameras for the TV interview, where he had a great time with his teammate Nadiem Amiri.
In a conversation with Sky reporter Riccardo Basile, Tietz initially tried to be serious and answered the questions. “I have the feeling that I know where he is going and he knows where I am,” said Tietz when asked about the successful interaction with Amiri. At the end of the sentence, both he and Amiri burst out laughing.
An entertaining dialogue developed. Basile asked: “Like a couple, or what?” Tietz replied: “Not that” – and, like Amiri, could barely hold on. “Sweet, you two,” the Sky reporter simply commented, asking about a possible insider that he might not understand.
