An ex-international suddenly appears in a Cologne bar and watches the Bundesliga conference. It could have been an easy argument.
- The Bundesliga * is on the home straight .
- This even pulls ex-international Max Kruse to the conference in a Cologne football pub.
- There could have been trouble there, but the host took it easy.
Cologne - Since the Bundesliga in the Corona crisis * resumed operations as the first of the top European leagues *, it has been pleased with increased interest worldwide . Now she is on the target sprint. That pulls millions in front of the screens and - thanks to the corona loosening in Germany - again in football bars .
Bundesliga in focus: ex-national player shows up in football pub and watches the conference
Who will be a master *? Who will make it to Europe? Who descends? The title race could already quit on Tuesday night * Bayern. Above all, the latter question is still a lot of tension in the other games * and is likely to concern ex-international Max Kruse the most. The former Werder professional now plays abroad, but he still appeared in a German sports bar for the relegation hit of his ex-club against SC Paderborn .
Max Kruse: The former Werder captain will have been happy about the Bremen victory.
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He was in Cologne on Saturday , the Express reports. Despite his Gladbach past, there should hardly be any tension with the FC fans. Nevertheless, he risked a lot of trouble with his visit to the pub. However , the football professional could hardly have known that the owner of the shop did not have much in common with Kruse's current club .
Cologne: Max Kruse in the sports bar - he did not know that there could have been trouble
Ertan Sayan, host of the “Barcode” in Cologne, is a fervent fan of Galatasaray Istanbul . And his celebrity guest laces up shoes for the biggest city rival Fenerbahce . There is anything but a friendship between the two traditional clubs, the supporters regularly cause a lot of stress around the encounters with each other. Max Kruse knows exactly what the Istanbul derby mood feels like, only in February he netted against Galatasaray.
Fenerbahce against Galatasaray: The Istanbul derby is usually very high.
© picture alliance / dpa / Sedat Suna
The Cologne restaurateur saves such feelings and is just happy about the prominent face of the ex-national player in his sports and shisha bar - he also took a selfie. " We are all welcome, " the Express showed as a brilliant host.
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