“The three of them simply did it well”: The trio Völler, Wolf and Wagner inspire the national team to significantly improve their performance with simple steps – the 2-1 win against the French brings relief to the players.
One should not imagine the national team under football guru Rudi Völler as either a Buddhist religious community or as a group of sleight-of-hand players seeking showmanship. “There was no magic,” said attacker Thomas Müller laconically about the preparations for the magical 2-1 win against World Cup runners-up France. However, references to Far Eastern philosophies were evident when Müller explained that they had deliberately gone onto the pitch “humblely”. The Duden describes humility as a kind of “surrender”, in Buddhism this is seen as a pleasant liberation from the feeling of one’s own importance.