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DFB team before the European Football Championship: Campo-Bahia feeling in Herzogenaurach

Ilkay Gündogan recently took a remarkable look at life as a professional footballer. In an article for the online portal “The Players’ Tribune” he wrote about the feeling of loneliness that he has felt since he “left home at the age of 18” and that has increased again under Corona conditions.

“I have the feeling that a lot of people think we footballers live this perfect life as if we were in a bubble of happiness that is never disturbed,” wrote Gündogan, but that is not the case. “I haven’t seen my parents or brother for more than eight months. And the rest of my family for over a year. My best friends are also far away. “

Community experience

That was at the end of April, now, a month and a half later, Gündogan looks full of anticipation for a community experience at the European Championships starting this Friday. The Manchester City professional did not speak of the games with his own national team at the press conference of the German Football Association on Thursday, but of those that he and his colleagues want to watch on the television screen.

Without the beer, of course, that he was jokingly asked about – but with connection and sociability. “The mood arises when there are two or three games every day and you can watch football all the time.”

The life of a professional footballer can also be quite nice, and if you listened to Oliver Bierhoff on Thursday, it shouldn’t be much nicer than in the EM quarter in Herzogenaurach, where the national players have been staying and training since Tuesday. A settlement of small bungalows has emerged at the company headquarters of the supplier Adidas, which is not by chance reminiscent of a successful model from seven years ago:

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