“Günter Netzer junior shouldn’t make fun of himself”
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FC Bayern wins the cup final against Leverkusen
FC Bayern Munich beats Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the final of the DFB Cup and is celebrating the double of the German championship and the DFB Cup for the 13th time.
Sometimes joking, sometimes seriously, and well-founded: Bastian Schweinsteiger makes a promising debut as an ARD expert at the DFB Cup final of his ex-team against Leverkusen. A Bayern professional makes a contribution.
Es was one of those Thomas Müller moments that gave the ARD premiere of his buddy Bastian Schweinsteiger rhetorical glitz and humor. “Radio Müller is coming now,” joked a very cheerful Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge when Müller was asked to speak after the 4-2 victory in the DFB Cup final against Bayer Leverkusen. From the grass, he greeted his former teammate with his arms raised, who made his first appearance as a TV expert on Saturday in the almost empty Berlin Olympic Stadium.
Müller spoke a few thoughtful sentences about the lack of fans in the stadium, philosophized that it was “not the same and certainly not the same” that Schweinsteiger acknowledged on the moderator’s platform with a grin, shaking his head and wild microphone movements. And then Müller said the sentence that is already a candidate for the collection of sayings of this bizarre corona season.
Thomas Müller (M.) celebrates the cup victory with his teammates
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“Günter Netzer junior shouldn’t make fun of it,” said Müller, 30, about the five-year-old Schweinsteiger. In contrast to the long-time television critic Netzer, the World Cup hero from Rio did not wear a tie, but instead, in a white shirt with at least two opened buttons and a dark blue jacket, analyzed the action professionally, but also with the necessary ease.
Neutral and serious
The left hand in his pocket, Schweinsteiger joked about a “tactical stroke of genius” by Müller, congratulated him seriously on a well-deserved victory, but also warned against the occasional “too high a chain of four”. After his career in the USA last year, Schweinsteiger still seems close enough to the industry, but at the same time far enough to be neutral and serious.
New job: Bastian Schweinsteiger
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“For us it was of course a great finale,” said Schweinsteiger – and the listener could briefly think that he was talking about Bayern in the we-form. Of course, he meant “us” to all the viewers, analysts and experts – to whom he now belongs.
And then he caused a little bit of media excitement. In his farewell words, Rummenigge not only wished “have fun with Bastian”, who was a “great guy” and looked “super relaxed”. He also said that Schweinsteiger “hopefully will be able to celebrate again with FC Bayern at some point”. The “sports buzzer” promptly asked at night: “A simple party invitation? A visionary act? Or even a job offer? “
A return to FC Bayern was regularly in the room, but Schweinsteiger currently seems to have arrived in his job as a TV expert of the ARD – at least the start was promising.
Only seven million viewers
They may have been less pleased on the ARD about the transmission rate. On average, 7.01 million watched the game. This corresponds to a market share of 26.6 percent.
A disappointment compared to previous years. Since 2013, at least ten million people have watched the final on TV. In the 2014 final between FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund, it was 14.27 million.
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