Munich shines: Life outside the stadium is sometimes difficult to bear at the moment.
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What’s really important these days? football not. It’s the privilege of being able to leave out the madness. Over 90 minutes dedicated to the Ukraine war.
An the ninth day, when Russian tanks rolled through Ukraine, when Russian missiles flew through Ukraine, when Russian soldiers marched through Ukraine and killed people, Julian Nagelsmann, the soccer coach of FC Bayern Munich, had to say in a press conference the following Answer question: Should there even be a game in the Bundesliga these days? “You can say that it’s actually not the time for entertainment. I’ll sign that too,” said Nagelsmann, who entertains millions of people with his team weekend after weekend.
The next day she was scheduled to play against Leverkusen in Munich. The table first against the table third. On a normal weekend, that would certainly have entertained some people in Ukraine. But because it wasn’t going to be a normal weekend, even Nagelsmann, the great entertainer, said it wasn’t the time for entertainment. Who would want to contradict him at this moment, when not even 1000 kilometers away people feared for their lives at best and at worst lost their lives?
