Gnabry and Lewandowski: In the Museum of Subtle Messages – Sport

As is well known, a picture says more than a thousand words. Scientists have found that the sight of an apple triggers the brain about 60,000 times faster into the gratifying realization, “Look, that’s an apple!” processed than the tedious reading of the letters “A” “P” “F” “E” “L”. And while the memory of a word like – just for example – “Basta” quickly fades, visual information can be stored better: five to six times as long.

The excursion into neuroscience is important in order to understand why there is less and less talk at FC Bayern and why communication is increasingly taking place in pictures. If you want to send an elementary message, you lovingly stage a recording and have it delivered to the addressee in a way that seems random. Serge Gnabry recently made a successful move when he published a snapshot from vacation on the Internet.

Dressed all in black, Gnabry sits on a bench and dabbles on his cell phone. The unknown photographer almost succeeded in taking a snapshot without making any statement; Wouldn’t the pale arrangement inevitably draw the eye to the only splash of color: a neon green stripe on Gnabry’s cap! So now the question is: Why is a FC Bayern player who refuses to renew his contract for even more lavish covers than he already has, wearing a headgear from the … Juventus Turin collection?!

Look, I can go too would be an appropriate title for the picture, it would be framed and displayed in the Gallery of Footballers’ Subtle Messages. It hung there next to the photo You amateurs don’t stop me (Rafael van der Vaart, 2007). Although van der Vaart was still tied to HSV, the Dutchman wanted to switch to FC Valencia, so he held up a shirt from the Spanish club to the camera and grinned cheekily. But the Hamburgers stayed firm back then.

Right next to it in the museum: the famous photo I’ve got an ace in the glove, you idiots by and with goalkeeper Andi Köpke. After a verbal commitment to VfB Stuttgart, he presented his jersey in 1996, but soon after signed for FC Barcelona. Because his double game came to light and the Spaniards had deposited an exit clause, Köpke was sent to the Olympique detention center in Marseille by the betrayed clubs.

A photo shows Bayern strikers and Barça coaches at “Lio” in Ibiza

Because it dawns on him that he’s alone with nagging in print Bild does not reach the goal, Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski, who is willing to change, has now also submitted a picture to look at. The photo taken purely by chance by journalist Gerard Romero Then we’ll have a delicious meal shows him alongside Barcelona coach Xavi entering the “Lio” in Ibiza. In the famous vaudeville restaurant, coaches and strikers discussed whether the bankruptcy vultures could be driven out by Barça in time before Lewandowski had to tie his shoes at the start of training in Munich. And in the cabaret, according to SZ information, Xavi came up with the idea for a picture that will finally force the stubborn Bavarians to the negotiating table.

If they also reject the fourth and fifth bag of money on Säbener Straße, Lewandowski will upload a photo to Instagram next week: It shows the striker in Hagebaumarkt Erding, grinning as he pushes a shopping cart in front of him, in which he has a deckchair, parasol and a BBQ -Grill smoker packed. Working title: Last warning. I can also put my feet up nicely for a season.