Kt is why the football visionary Rudi Völler is responsible in a central function for the decisive future questions of the German football mindset, the One Love armband ends up in the Hall of Shame of the Qatar Football Museum or Rudis Resterampe of structural conservatism. In any case, losing was yesterday, from now on the armband is black, red and gold again.
With this simple but effective trick – honorary captains swear by it! – every opponent will be hacked and the German national soccer team will not be defeated for years to come. After all, let’s say it in German, the captain’s armband was in two of twelve World Cup and European Championship finals, in Italy in 1990 and in England in 1996. If that’s not proof: Both were won!
And what if it’s still not enough against the soccer powerhouse Peru this Saturday (8:45 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the national soccer team and on ZDF)? Don’t despair! Let’s look forward to further innovative ideas from Völler’s back-to-the-future laboratory: the soccer shoes could already be completely black again on Tuesday against Belgium and we’re looking forward to perms and gold chains by the time of the European Championship at the latest. Let’s go, Germany scores a goal.