“Killing as a solution to the problem – that’s beyond my imagination”: Eintracht Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner
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Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner talks about what the war in Ukraine is doing to him, what he thinks about Putin and explains why there is more money in Augsburg and Freiburg than in Frankfurt.
Mr. Glasner, in Kharkiv, where Eintracht played in the Europa League three years ago, rockets are flying, tanks are rolling and soldiers are shooting. How concerned are you with the war in Ukraine?
Very. I was in Kyiv myself and know what it was like there. I played with VfL Wolfsburg against Donetsk in 2020, who had to give way back then and leave Donbas. We played with Wolfsburg in the Europa League in Lemberg against Olexandria. Even then, these were already war regions, and people were being driven from their homes. Only today the dimensions are completely different, everything is much worse. For me it was no longer imaginable that we would have a war here in Europe, and we see pictures every day of soldiers with rifles at the ready taking a stand, that there is speculation that the Third World War could break out. What I’m following on the news right now reminds me of events that I only knew about after rocket attacks from Syria or Afghanistan. That was very bad too. And today something like this is happening practically on our doorstep, in Europe. The current events are an absolute catastrophe.
