In Wolfsburg a referee is unavailable and a replacement is being sought via a stadium announcement. Tobias Krull is in touch and can now tell you what it’s like when you suddenly go from being a spectator to being a Bundesliga referee.
Interview by
Felix Haselsteiner
Fourteen minutes into the game between Wolfsburg and Cologne in the Bundesliga, assistant referee Thorben Siewer took a ball to the head and had to go to hospital injured. A loudspeaker announcement will be made in the stadium to find a replacement. It reports: Tobias Krull, 32, state league goalkeeper and sporting director at MTV Gifhorn, car dealer – and now also: Bundesliga referee. In the evening his cell phone is full of messages, but there is still time to call SZ back – on an unforgettable Saturday.