SC Freiburg practiced humility for a long time – and now challenges the greats of the football world. Is it even enough for a title this season?
He has this unsteady look, sometimes he looks at the ground, then he suddenly lifts his head and seems to want to fixate on a point in infinity, although there, at the end of the players’ tunnel, there is only a wall.
Christian Streich doesn’t know what to do with himself after a football game. It takes hours, sometimes a day, for a game like that to leave his body. The only way he can find out is by talking about it.
“It was a passionate performance by the team,” Streich murmured after the DFB Cup game against FC Bayern, and from his bird of prey face, lips pursed like a beak, it was hard to tell that his team had just celebrated a triumph: 2: 1 against FC Bayern – away, in Munich.