“Classic in Germany”
After a surprise victory: Cologne trainer goes on to TV reporter
09.08.2025 – 10:16 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Cologne dismantles a top -class opponent with 4: 0. After that, however, FC coach Lukas Kwasniok is upset about a reporter’s question.
Bundesliga promoters 1. FC Köln set an exclamation mark shortly before the start of the season. Against the Italian Champions League participant Atalanta Bergamo, the team of the new coach Lukas Kwasniok won 4: 0 (2-0) at his Müngersdorf premiere-and ensured great euphoria in the cathedral city with the extremely successful dress rehearsal.
Jan Thielmann with a double pack (26th/58th), newcomer Jakub Kaminski (32nd) and Luca Waldschmidt with a penalty (66.) provided the Cologne goals. FC played full throttle football over long phases, but also received little resistance from the European League winner in 2024.
Cologne coach Lukas Kwasniok was no longer a few minutes after the final whistle to celebrate-and instead drove the Magenta Sport moderator Thomas Wagner. Reason: the moderization of the journalist was too negative for him.
The following change of words in the round, in which Magenta experts Fabian Klos and Mark Uth also participated, developed:
Wagner: “We are wondering a bit whether your team is already in such an outstanding early form or whether the opponent also played along. Because we missed the absolute intensity at Atalanta in the second half.”
Kwasniok: “Yes, that’s the classic in Germany, there is first searching at the opponent …”
Wagner: “No, no, that’s not true. I just praised her, and then I said that we are puzzling.”
Wagner: “I don’t let myself be stuffed directly into a drawer.”
After that, however, Kwasniok came to the game, the tension came off again. “We just played a top game today,” said the 44-year-old. “And we all know that: If you then lie 0: 3, 0: 4 behind, at some point you don’t feel like running after.”
Wagner was not alone with his opinion on the performance of the guests. “As if they didn’t feel like it or trained very hard this morning. Something is strange,” said former FC player Uth during the break. And the former Bundesliga striker Klos was also surprised in the live comment. “I have to be careful what I say,” said Klos, with professional football, the appearance of the previous year’s third of Serie A “has nothing to do.” Even if it was too negative.