Kingsley Coman is now playing his ninth season at FC Bayern and celebrated huge successes with the club such as the 2020 Champions League title. On Tuesday evening he and the French national team will meet some teammates from Munich who will play for the DFB team. The Dortmund venue is definitely a special one for Coman.
Coman actually only knows Signal Iduna Park as BVB’s home ground and has already played big games there with his FC Bayern in front of over 80,000 spectators.
On Tuesday evening (from 9:00 p.m.) he wants to make use of his wealth of experience from five Bundesliga guest appearances with BVB (four wins, one draw, one own goal).
“For me it’s almost like a home game, even though we’re playing in Dortmund, my club’s rival,” Coman was quoted as saying in French association media.
Coman explained this feeling with his connection to Germany, which he has built up over the last eight years: “I like the country a lot. I’ve been living there for seven or eight years. I’ve gotten very used to the country and the culture,” said the 27-year-old, who is about to make his 51st international appearance for the Équipe Tricolore.
Coman has so far been a fixture at FC Bayern
Despite the serious sporting crisis that the German national team has been in since the 2022 World Cup at the latest, the Paris native expects a strong opponent: “Germany hasn’t done well in the last tournaments, but it is still a top nation, one of the best in Europe.”
The FC Bayern winger expects a “very intense and exciting game” in which the friendships with his Munich teammates Joshua Kimmich, Leroy Sané and Serge Gnabry will have to rest for 90 minutes.
In the Bundesliga season so far, Coman has been in the starting line-up in all three games for FC Bayern under head coach Thomas Tuchel.