It was nearly one o’clock in the morning, in the dark Leipzig night, when the Turkish national team bus, surrounded by a large police escort with flashing blue lights, cut through the city’s central avenue, with the players standing and dancing in the middle of the central aisle. The Turkish fans, for their part, had taken over Klostergasse, the main nightlife street in the Saxon city, giving it the appearance of Istanbul. Far removed from the celebrations after qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Euro against Austria, social networks were ablaze with the case of Merih Demiral. Not for his heroic double, but because of one of his celebrations, which went somewhat unnoticed in the madness of the match.
