Fan tragedy leaves deep traces of RTL commentator

Fan tragedy leaves deep traces of RTL commentator

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Welcome to a new episode. Simply make and we go straight to a topic that happened last weekend. You were a fan there, you fell relatively close to the press reverse and died. How did you see that? Yes, exactly. Yes, two and a half meters next to me and Felix Kroos. Um. Suddenly it was mega hectic hustle and bustle around us. Um. Folders have set up, police officers and a lot of medical staff and, um. We have it, so to speak, because we were in the tunnel, concentrated on the game. That happened almost so half -right behind us, we didn’t see anything. But we heard a bit. Um, exactly. What I found blatant is that it was so fast. Everything. So that the corresponding people were there so quickly. So folder, as I said, first aid police. I found that impressive, I have to say. How quickly it all went, how quickly this privacy screen was built up. After consultation with our editor and our director, I briefly said what we suspect what happened here, which unfortunately came true. Um, that’s pretty high. So after that I looked up there, that’s really very, very high and um, yes, so that is a super blatant feeling when you know and that was true in the course of the game that you know that one is fighting for his life while this football game is running. Then we have, uh when we had a little more information. The police had already asked us as a witness during the game, um, also had to give up our ID card and so when you know that someone is fighting for his life and a football game is already running, that’s really a great great. So a feeling where I think I need a few more days to process it. Maybe that is that. What does that make you emotionally with you when you think back to it? In retrospect, especially a lot. First I switched to autopilot together with Felix, I have to say. Although we also have the information we had and we also have to show the overall picture of a picture of how the staff stood and also built the privacy screen. It was the case that we sometimes have, in the stadium we look at the field and on monitors. We could only comment on monitor in some cases because right in front of us. We were the last row, so to speak, where the press revener connects to the normal spectator places so that nobody looks up. Has this privacy screen been built up? So we couldn’t see the field for a few minutes. And above all, afterwards I couldn’t exactly behind the privacy screen behind the privacy screen. Exactly. That means the folders etc. and the police stood so that we could no longer see the field. Exactly. And yes, that was an absurd situation and I definitely couldn’t sleep.
So would you say the most blatant that you experienced during your commentator career?
Yes definitely. And I was great, super happy. My co -commentator Felix Kroos with me. So it felt a bit like you were not alone. So to experience this, so to speak, together so bitter and as hard as it was, was good to have one next to you. And then of course your thought carousel deals all the time when commenting. Who was that? We have. Interestingly, I turned up at this point before the game because people called my name and wanted to wave to me. And then I waved back and they stood exactly in the square, where the man should have fallen or fallen down afterwards and uh, yes, that’s super blatant, because you are a bit in the autopilot. Do your work as normal. Of course in a more steamed tone, because then you suddenly notice Boah, football is not that important. Um, and then, yes afterwards. Above all, the carousel of thought was on the hotel, as I said, I didn’t sleep. Um, because at some point you notice how quickly it can be over. The man came to the stadium and just like we see a football game. And then that really happens. Two and a half meters a maximum of you. So we were, so to speak, there are many commentators from different countries, including radio commentators and such, we were the next. And we also have the opportunity to face us on the commentator square. And you don’t talk through all the time to communicate off air. And then Felix and I at some point were amazed that we didn’t hear any ambulance and then we suspected that it was probably worse, because when no ambulance is coming. Yes. And then? Of course you go through 1001 1000 scenarios. I have to say, so really stark respect for the police because the goods are so nice. Today one also wrote to me on insta that he apologized for the fact that they, so to speak. We had an advertising break before the extension that they heard us there, so to speak, than as a witness. However, as I said, we could not say anything about it, but only acoustically what we heard. The police were super nice, acted super as carefully as I think, the folders instructed very quickly and so, but the bitterest was to see all the time that, so to speak, paramedics were there, but that no one was obviously what we saw. As I said. A ambulance or something, that was I found worrying blatant.
This is really very, very hard. So our sympathy there is again in the direction of the relatives and friends. It’s really blatant. So I also sat in front of the television and thought so Boah, it is hard because you just arise zero with it in such a environment where it is actually about a final where it is about celebrating a kind of football festival.
Yes, yes.
You go there with a good mood, maybe drink one or two beers or whatever. Yes, and then something like that happens. That’s real. So, that tarnishes the whole. But somehow it felt like the whole award ceremony and ceremony and something like that didn’t impress the blatant.
I think that away from the main grandstand, where the press speech is, I don’t think people have noticed in the game. Especially not the players. Um, that also made strange because we were in two different bubbles, so to speak. We were happy, so to speak, happy about the great game and see Ronaldo again in Munich and so, but were felt emotionally in a completely different world. So and even on the daring after such a game is always a very relaxed atmosphere on the daring. You might drink an after -work beer and so, everyone was really tense. And yet you have to report on the football game, so to speak. So super super heavy situation. But Felix, real, I was so happy to have Felix Kroos at his side because we got a little bit. Of course, we always tried to communicate with each other. So you usually talk off air on the ear, so that the audience doesn’t hear it. Actually only about sporty things. Then we also talked about what happened there etc. But unfortunately it was very, very early for us because we were so close what happened there.