"Arturo has announced it, Arturo knew it!", Joshua Kimmich shouted to me before he waved and left the Fisht stadium just before midnight, where the national team had won against Australia, Cameroon and now also against Mexico. Only the Chileans could get a point, in...
Since eleven days I’am traveling with the German national team through Russia. On my way, there are even encounters with old acquaintances - like Arturo Vidal. After their 1:1 against Chile, the DFB-players are already in the bus. Even latecomer Leon Goretzka, who has taken a...
We had spoken about it on the phone just one week before. Tuesday morning, Toni Kroos is bringing his son to kindergarten. I say him: “If you win your third Champions League title in Cardiff, you are the first German who has achieved this, since...
The championship trophy is the first thing which was there. I raise the trophy briefly, after all, I have to test if Thomas Müller can hold it with one hand for our photo shoot. The original one, the players got on the last matchday against...
Jerome Boateng made his choice quickly. "La Fontana", an Italian restaurant in Munich, only a few minutes by car from the training-area at Säbener Straße. As I enter the restaurant, I quickly notice why the Bayern-pro has chosen this restaurant. Above the bar there is...
Philipp Lahm has already made his armchair for retirement. Better said: or rather two. For the cover, the Bayern-captain sacrificed parts of his jersey collection. Now he is sitting on the exchanged football shirts of the opponents he played against during his career like Pirlo and Buffon, even teammates like Bastian...