Champions League final
Football legend Van Basten scolds about the final show with a US rock band
Linkin Park and star violinist David Garrett appear before the Champions League final. The reactions are different. A former superstar criticizes the performance sharply.
The US rock band Linkin Park and the German star violinist David Garrett have attuned football fans in the Munich Arena to the Champions League final. A former football superstar particularly criticized Linkin Park’s appearance.
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“I think that’s absolutely idiotic,” said Marco van Basten on the Dutch television. The European champion in 1988 and two-time royal class champion considered the appearance “worthless, really worthless”, as he said in the broadcaster Ziggo Sport.
Short hit medley from Linkin Park to comeback
Van Basten and the former Bundesliga star Rafael van der Vaart, who sat together as experts in the TV studio, criticized that the players were distracted by such a show. Because of the show, the players had to end warming up half an hour before kick -off and go into the cabin. It was “ridiculous” by UEFA to treat the players like this, said Van Basten.
Linkin Park had played a short medley of her hits and new songs before the kick-off between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan. The audience reacted largely motionless with the appearance, in the end there was applause. Garrett then offered the white stripes hit “Seven Nation Army” on the violin, now a classic at football fans. Especially with the song, the fans roar in the stadium.
Linkin Park is on a comeback tour. After the tragic death of front man Chester Bennington, who committed suicide in 2017, the band had taken a long break. In autumn 2024 she came back surprisingly, including with Emily Armstrong as the new singer. This summer the band will play five stadium concerts in Germany.
Show acts controversial in German football stadiums
Appearance of music acts in big games without a direct relationship with the clubs are particularly criticized in Germany with many fans.
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