Special Envoy in Munich
This is the story of a comeback. Less astounding than that of Karim Benzema with France but perhaps just as crucial for Germany in its quest for an unprecedented 4th continental crown after which it has been chasing for twenty-five years. Like the Madrilenian of the Blues, whom he will meet this Tuesday evening in his garden at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Thomas Müller was preparing to watch the Euro in front of his television. On the dock after the fiasco of the World Cup in Russia (elimination in the first round), the Bayern Munich striker had become persona non grata in selection despite the strong lobbying of the former glories of German football (his Bavarian bosses Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Uli Hoeness, Lothar Matthäus,Michael Ballack) to see him wear the Bundesadler (Federal Eagle) jersey again. Until a phone call from Joachim Löw in the spring and a conversation "
pleasant and open
”with the one who had yet banished him
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