A TV breakdown was THE topic of conversation after Leverkusen’s 3-2 win at SC Freiburg!
In an interview with national player Florian Wirtz (20), DAZN reporter Mario Rieker asked whether the visitors to the stands were “grandma and grandpa”.
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1-0 shooter Wirtz, who ran the most of all the players in Freiburg with 12.7 kilometers and also won the most duels (15), quickly clarified with a smile: “No, those are actually my parents.”
Dad Hans Wirtz (70) and mother Karin Groß (63) attend almost every away game of their son. Just like now in Freiburg.
BILD reached the Bayer star’s parents in the car late on Sunday evening, 50 kilometers before arriving in Brauweiler at home.
Post, post, goal! Sensational Schick goal
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How did the supposed grandparents react to the mix-up?
Cool and with a lot of humor!
“We noticed this on the way back,” said father Hans, who is also his son’s advisor. And further: “Florian parried well in the interview. We had a good laugh about it. That’s all fine.”
Wirtz – this is a sports-loving family business.
Florian has a total of nine siblings, he is the youngest child.
His sister Juliane also plays in the Bundesliga and moved from Leverkusen to Werder Bremen before the season. Hans and Karin also regularly attend Juliane’s games. Sister Sophia takes care of Florian’s social media presence.
Wirtz’s sister Juliane in the Werder jersey
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The patch work parents “inherited” the athlete genes to their children.
Karin Groß was a handball coach at TuS SW Brauweiler and trained our current national player Julian Köster (23/VfL Gummersbach) in children and primary school age.
Papa Hans is the first chairman at GW Brauweiler and was Florian’s first coach when he played football together with Juliane.
“At the very beginning we were on the same team, even though she is two years older. But after that I went to 1. FC Köln and after that it was all over. There are very few family members who didn’t play football. That’s why we always have football on TV. “For us, a lot revolves around football,” Florian once said in the “Werkself Magazine”.
2024-03-18 13:40:51
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