We have to be grateful to Spain, even if many German fans in the Munich Arena wanted nothing to do with it. The way the Iberians made it to the final saved football from cynicism.
The French supporters who streamed out of the security gate at Munich Airport must have suspected it. Because what did they see there, just a moment ago making cheerful faces, stealing the colorful berets from each other’s heads, singing teasingly? A UEFA envoy was waiting to be picked up with a servile service smile, but not for them. The lady was holding a tablet. And on the tablet was a name that still inspires fear among the Blues today, trauma in six syllables: Marco Materazzi.
Source: Stern
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