Max Kruse uses the Olympic stage to rearrange his private life. He proposes marriage to his girlfriend on TV.
Union Berlin’s Olympian Max Kruse made an unconventional marriage proposal to his girlfriend Dilara Mardin after the wild 3-2 victory in the German Olympic selection against Saudi Arabia.
The 33-year-old attacker first explained after the second group game in the DFB selection what went wrong, that one could be happy to have saved the 3-2 over time in the final minutes and that it was still a matter of the vote in the thrown together Team is lacking.
No answer to the marriage proposal yet
Then he asked if he could pick up the microphone, took off his jersey, brought out a Turkish love message to his girlfriend, got on his knees and asked live on TV if she wanted to be his wife. “Actually, I wanted to wait until I score a goal. But who knows if I can still do it,” said Kruse.
Mardin has meanwhile also accepted Kruse’s proposal. Noisy Sports show the Union striker told the ARD reporter that she said “yes”.

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