After a great final, the VfL Wolfsburg footballers are denied their third Champions League triumph, because FC Barcelona are still catching up from a 0:2 deficit – nobody is more annoyed by that than the leader.
By Frank Hellmann, Eindhoven
She had stood aside. Somewhere among the bits of confetti that had rained down on the lawn of the PSV stadium in Eindhoven. For a long time, Alexandra Popp didn’t feel the strength to ask the traveling supporters of VfL Wolfsburg for encouragement, which would have been appropriate after a shimmering final in the Women’s Champions League. Someone wanted to be alone with the pain first: The 2: 3 (2: 0) defeat against FC Barcelona apparently hurt her even more than the many punches and kicks that Germany’s most famous soccer player in a fight between two cultures worth seeing had gotten.