Enlarge image
DFB official Oliver Bierhoff: Does he fear Fifa sanctions?
Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/ Bongarts/Getty Images
I've been thinking about Oliver Bierhoff.
This man has been in my heart since I was a little boy, crouched in front of the sofa and watched him score the golden goal in front of the Queen in the European Championship final, 1996.
Maybe it's Lookism, but I always thought Oliver Bierhoff was very beautiful.
He advertised multivitamin shampoo, his hair was shiny and had volume.
Then he once advertised for nuclear power plants to run longer, that was in 2010. He got really pissed off, but his haircut held up.
Yesterday he stood sadly in the Emirate of Qatar and announced to the press that Manuel Neuer is not wearing a "One Love" armband after all.
He stood there sheepishly next to the DFB President and looked like a lousy cat that had been threatened with beatings.
"It feels like censorship," said Oliver Bierhoff.
Where's the multivitamin man who heads it all off?
Where is Atomkraft-Olli, who promotes longer terms in a country of green skeptics, regardless of losses?
Oliver Bierhoff, please leave my heart.
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/SIL73HWCGXKSZBZRANYT36EZLI.jpg)