Thanks to Yann Sommer’s gloss performance, Inter Milan is in the final of the Champions League. He did not think that he was still experiencing this – nor did his critics not.
FC Barcelona and Inter Milan delighted the football world with two extraordinary games in the semi -finals of the Champions League. In the end, however, the headlines did not belong to the players who had made the ball on the foot with the ball, but the one who conjured up with his hands. Yann Sommer loosened his team’s final ticket with his parades, in old age he has a way that is not only surprising for him.
Yann Sommer: Summer feelings in the old age
“I will remember it all my life”said the overwhelming and then overwhelmed summer after the game, after he had already teared away one or two tears of joy in the minutes after the final whistle. They were summer feelings that came up for the first time in his career – and who probably won’t come back. “I am 36 years old, I am no longer the youngest and can play the Champions League final with this team. I couldn’t be happier”he said.
Shortly before the final on Saturday against Paris St. Germain (from 9 p.m. Live in the Sportschau-Ticker), the emotional situation looks similar. “This is the most important game in my career, very clearly”said Sommer of the Sports Show. “The Champions League is the largest club competition in Europe, as a footballer you dream of holding this trophy in my hand. The title would mean a lot to me, that would be beautiful.”
Summer before a special return to Munich
That this “The most important game” The story somehow rounds off in Munich. Because before the summer of 2023 switched to Inter, he had experienced the most difficult phase of his career there. FC Bayern Munich had signed him seven months in advance because Manuel Neuer had seriously injured himself. Almost in a night-and-fog campaign, the record champion won the then goalkeeper from Borussia Mönchengladbach for nine million euros.
What followed was anything but the fame sheet that summer is now experiencing. The keeper made some mistakes in a total of 25 games, but this time was primarily characterized by enormous criticism, which certainly influenced his achievements. Above all, topics that he had ticked off, such as his height of 1.83 meters, which supposedly did not allow that summer could be an outstanding goalkeeper. The now 36-year-old has now been able to prove the opposite.
Yann Sommer, former goalkeeper of FC Bayern Munich
Although such thoughts are obviously not available. “It is never important to me to prove something. My only goal was always to be a good and constant goalkeeper for my team, now for Inter Milan, and to be successful with her. Your own needs are not so important in the end it is important that you are good as a collective”said Sommer of the Sports Show.
Switzerland coach Yakin: “Yann was pulled through by a dirty slingshot”
The goalkeeper had already admitted that the time in Munich was not a pleasure, now he has ticked off the topic and no longer wants to talk about it. “I learned how things are going at Bavaria. You choose one or two players, then you will be shot in the media. And then you choose two new ones. And I was also my turn. But I didn’t feel like defending myself publicly”Sommer once said. It is “Sometimes uncomfortable” and the time was “Not without a trace” passed by him.
“Yann was pulled through by a dirty slingshot. He did not deserve that. He became a victim of a mechanism that only takes place in Bavaria”also said his Swiss national coach Murat Yakin. Summer was almost a week back then, it was openly discussed that he was not good enough for the big FC Bayern. His current achievements now make it look quite grotesque.
In Gladbach the goalkeeper was number one on and next to the square
And even if you ask in Gladbach about an assessment, the judgment is very different. Sommer had acted there for 8.5 years at an outstanding level, the initial skepticism (the body was also a topic at the beginning) had quickly given way, he became the darling of the masses and one of the best in his field in the Bundesliga. With his hands – which FC Bayern in particular experienced painfully – but also with his feet, his construction game was elementary for the success of the Borussia at the time.
“He is a type son -in -law, he can play the guitar, is very well read and educated, a very pleasant person – besides that he is a great goalkeeper. At my time, he gave Gladbach the support that a team needs”said Marco Rose, who celebrated great success with summer and the “foals” from 2019 to 2021. He is just one of the many people who rave about the current inter-goalkeeper on the Lower Rhine.
Gladbach’s former goalkeeper Yann Sommer with his then coach Marco Rose
Summer also attracts his cloak against PSG?
Sommer has left big traces in Mönchengladbach, the time in Munich has left him traces – and now he is facing his career. After his semi -final acts against Lamine Yamal and Co., Inter described him as “Superman” on his own homepage. The “Gazzetta Dello Sport” had compared summer with the Marvel superheroes shortly before after a game against Udinese Calcio (2-1). “He put on his cloak, flew and made the goal to 2-2”it said.
For the title in the premier class, summer has to grow again. Maybe he may be old and small, but final opponent Paris St. Germain knows that he can quickly become “Superman”. And summer promises to the sports show: “I will do everything we can for being successful, I’m really looking forward to it. “