Ex-footballer Metzelder admits sharing child porn at German trial Berlin (AFP) – Former Real Madrid and Germany defender Christoph Metzelder admitted at the start of his trial on child pornography charges Thursday to sharing graphic illicit images of minors online. “I obtained incriminating pictures that were freely available on the internet (and) took screenshots,” Metzelder, 40, told a district court in the western city of Duesseldorf. “I shared extreme fantasies in chats,” he said from the witness stand, in comments reported by AFP’s sports news arm SID. Prosecutors say the 2002 World Cup finalist passed on 29 pornographic files to three women via WhatsApp, including one featuring a toddler in a “highly sexualised pose”.