After the killing spree in Graz
ÖFB team has to play-Arnautović: “I didn’t want to come here at all”
Mandatory task fulfills: The ÖFB selection in the San Marino qualification is 4-0. After Graz, Marko Arnautović and Co. were not on the pitch in their thoughts.
Actually, everything went according to plan for Marko Arnautovic on Tuesday evening: The 36-year-old record national player carried the ÖFB team on the field in the World Cup qualification against San Marino, played through for 90 minutes and scored two goals. In the end, Austria won 4: 0. Arnautovic didn’t want to know about that after the game.
Team boss Ralf Rangnick called for dominance – whether he saw her in full line today, a journalist from the broadcaster Sky Sport Austria asked the visibly depressed Arnautovic after the game. He replied clearly: “I’m honest, it has nothing to do with you, but I don’t feel like standing here at all and talking to you.”
Arnautovic: “I’m not interested in it”
There are currently much more important things, the football professional emphasized. “Don’t ask me about the game at all because I am not happy, I am not interested. I am only there with my thoughts,” he meant the Austrian city of Graz, where the same day had come to a killing spree with 11 deaths. Including the perpetrator who committed suicide. What happened in Graz described Arnautovic as “horror”.
“I had to hold back my emotions all day,” he said. “We have all families at home, we have all children at home.” One should “talk about the security of our children”, but not about football.
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Teammates come from Graz
His teammates were also dismayed by the killing spree in Graz. Austria’s striker Michael Gregoritsch from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg comes from the city himself. According to his own statements, he grew up from the affected area only ten minutes away. “It’s terrible.” Unfortunately, it is so close and that’s bad, “said Gregoritsch.
BVB professional Marcel Sabitzer also grew up in the city. “You have inquired how the situation is what the situation is. Of course, everyone is very shocked. And as I said, it also takes you with you,” said the 31-year-old after the game. “If you have already experienced things yourself that are not so beautiful and strikes of fate, then you can empathize.”
The ÖFB team played against San Marino with a funeral flor. Before the game there was a minute’s commemoration. The Austrian fans waived a planned fan march before the game and their choreography. The shock was deep, football became a minor matter. The professionals would not have played at all.
Sources: Sky Sport Austria, news agency dpa
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