“If you had made a film out of it,” says Günter Netzer, “you would say: Such a kitsch, unbearable, this story. But then it really happened.” And somehow it turned out to be a film, with him as the spectator and the main actor at the same time. Available as head cinema for fifty years, for everyone who experienced it at the time.
June 23, 1973 is a scorching hot day, the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf is like a saucepan, and not only because of the heat. “The most important news of the day,” is how Kurt Brumme begins his radio report from the cup final in Düsseldorf: “Borussia Mönchengladbach is playing without Günter Netzer.” Thousands of fans see this as harassment by a stubborn coach against his rebellious star, as punishment for switching to Real Madrid . “Netzer, Netzer,” they roar, a demand that will not die down.
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