Hardly any TV viewer would have expected these words.
After soccer world champion Shkodran Mustafi acted as a lottery ticket in the draw for the second round of the DFB Cup, he surprised the fans when he was asked afterwards for his opinion on the table.
When ARD presenter Stephanie Müller-Spirra asked Mustafi whether he had a “favorite pairing”, the unexpected answer was: SV Sandhausen – Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Shkodran Mustafi finds Sandhausen – Leverkusen “very interesting”
Mustafi initially joined DFB vice-president and draw manager Peter Frymuth, who saw the duel between FC St. Pauli and FC Schalke 04 ahead, but then said in the same breath: “I also find Sandhausen against Leverkusen very interesting.”
The reason? “Leverkusen are very, very strong in the league at the moment and the cup is still a different competition. I would like to see how they perform against Sandhausen.”
Not everyone on social media understood the explanation; on the former Twitter (new name X) there were various astonished reactions (“He really said it like that”).
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The 31-year-old Mustafi, a member of the 2014 World Cup team, is currently without a club. After two years with UD Levante in Spain, the former Arsenal and Schalke defender’s contract was not extended in the summer.
All second-round pairings at a glance:
Viktoria Cologne – Eintracht Frankfurt
Arminia Bielefeld – Hamburger SV
FC 08 Homburg – Greuther Furth
SpVgg Unterhaching – Fortuna Dusseldorf
SV Sandhausen – Bayer 04 Leverkusen
1. FC Saarbruecken – FC Bayern
FC St. Pauli – FC Schalke 04
1. FC Nuremberg – Hansa Rostock
Borussia Mönchengladbach – 1. FC Heidenheim
Holstein Kiel – 1. FC Magdeburg
SC Freiburg – SC Paderborn
VfB Stuttgart – Union Berlin
Borussia Dortmund – TSG Hoffenheim
VfL Wolfsburg – RB Leipzig
1. FC Kaiserslautern – 1. FC Cologne
2023-10-01 18:56:07
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