Oliver Wurm had 90 days to come up with a sensible magazine, and once again he succeeded. Again, because Wurm has long been well known in the industry as a living special release, so to speak. He published the Bible and the Basic Law as a magazine, as well as one about Angela Merkel – and it’s not entirely apolitical even now that Wurm has published a new issue, one about soccer player Toni Kroos.
who the spectacular interview accident after the Champions League final in May, it was clear: this is not how things should end. The ZDF reporter Nils Kaben had questioned Kroos not quite happily, the player in turn reacted quite irritated and finally broke off the interview with the following sentence: “You had 90 minutes to think about reasonable questions. Honestly. And then you ask me two shitty questions”.
90 days after this clash, there is now this magazine, for which theoretically 90 celebrities should ask 90 questions to Kroos. In practice, there have been a few more and in practice the term “celebrity” is defined very generously, ranging from Robbie Williams or Roger Federer, appropriately moderated as “Tennis God”, to, well, oh, what was his name again, well the thing, the thing!!!
Kroos says about his quality as a driver: “Traffic jams are not my thing”
However, this result is not remarkable because of the quantity, but because of the quality of the questions and answers. It is learned that Kroos never watched the 2014 World Cup final again, saying the 120 minutes were “not nice enough”. You also learn how Zinedine Zidane taught the Real Madrid team the suffering that Kroos once spoke about in the dressing room with another East German, Merkel, and that while he’s a standout midfielder in world football, he may not be the very best driver (nice, more laconic sentence from him: “Traffic jam ends are not mine”).
All this is also remarkable because it does not stop at trivia. Kroos talks about his jumping technique for defensive headers and outlines ideas for changing the rules that one would like to see widely discussed, such as introducing time penalties instead of yellow and red cards or setting a net playing time of 60 minutes.
The cover of the magazine symbolically shows a hug, specifically one from Toni Kroos and football coach Jürgen Klopp.
(Photo: Oliver Wurm/Getty)
In turn, the formula “90 + 26” comes at the end of the Kroos booklet, whereby the very last and 116th question including injury time not only comes from Nils Kaben, but that it also corresponds exactly to the wording of this Kaben Kroos after the had put CL final. This time Toni Kroos answers them. So that ends the playlist of this big colorful Toni box on 179 pages, that can be purchased digitally and part of the proceeds go to the Kroos charitable foundation.
That leaves the additional question 90+27, does Kaben actually agree with this project? When asked cautiously by e-mail, he writes that he found Wurm’s idea very nice right from the start, “because it leads a very excited debate in an easy and sympathetic way to a very fine end for everyone involved – at least that’s what I think”.