The pitch will “probably not be in the best condition,” Stuttgart attacker Ermedin Demirovic warned his colleagues from the German national team in front of the pitch in the Bilino Polje stadium, where Bosnia and Germany met on Friday for the third matchday of the Nations League. If Oliver Kahn had listened to this comment, he would have laughed heartily in his inimitable way. The former national goalkeeper never left the pitch so thoroughly soiled as he did in his first and only international match on Bosnian soil, exactly 22 years earlier to the day. Before the match in Sarajevo, German KFOR soldiers even helped with helicopters to clear the field of water after days of constant rain. Kahn later still looked like he had come from mud wrestling.
