Before the Bundesliga game against Eintracht Frankfurt, the sports director of the German record champions talks about the war in Ukraine on live TV – and gets emotional. Hasan Salihamidzic also speaks from his own experience.
Bayern Munich’s sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic feels painfully reminded of his own past by the Ukraine crisis. “The fact that I experienced this time is the worst time you can experience,” said a visibly emotional Salihamidzic on Sky on Saturday when he looked back at his flight from what was then Yugoslavia to Germany 30 years ago because of the Balkan war. “My family was down there. The worries you have are unimaginable.” Salihamidzic was 15 at the time.
“I just can’t believe that we’re having a war of aggression in the middle of Europe at this time,” said the 45-year-old on Saturday about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I’m shocked – like all of us – and I hope this stops very soon.”
Before the game, as in the other Bundesliga games, there was a minute’s silence in the Frankfurt Arena to commemorate the victims of the Ukraine war (read more about this here). Before the Munich game at Einracht Frankfurt, the message “Stop it, Putin!” to read.