BR, Sat.1, Sky – soccer presenter Uli Köhler has been analyzing FC Bayern in particular for decades, in a relaxed and calm manner. His assessment of the current situation: The problem is right at the top.
If you meet Uli Köhler to chat after a Champions League quarter-final, it’s clear what it’s going to be about: FC Bayern, what else? After all, there is hardly anyone among the FC Bayern reporters who has been as close as Köhler for so long. There is also no one who does what he says to the camera so relaxed and unexcited. That’s exactly where the art lies, he says: “That I’m talking to the camera exactly as I’m talking to you.” So not like all the speaking robots with their punchy German, whose sentences have already been forgotten before they are even complete in the world. “The grammar may not be up to Marcel Reif’s level, but the viewer understands what I mean.” Köhler encounters the chronically agitated professional football business consistently with composure, does not make rocket science out of his job: “Reporter at FC Bayern? That works by itself! I admire investigative journalists, but we Bayern reporters get everything delivered – wonderful!”