Sports director Benjamin Weber and president Kay Bernstein before the game in Nuremberg Photo: City Press
By Roberto Lamprecht
President Kay Bernstein (43) is back!
In Nuremberg, Berlin’s president cheered on his team from the stands with a crutch. Thirteen days ago, Bernstein had an unfortunate fall in the hallway of the office after a chest cheer (chest to chest) with Marcus Becker (Director of Human Resources and Legal Affairs) and ended up in the clinic with three broken transverse vertebral processes, which he was allowed to leave on Tuesday.
Bernstein missed the general meeting and therefore only spoke to the members via video message from his sick bed. Although he is still not pain-free, he now had his wife Eileen drive him in the car to the game in Nuremberg.
At first Bernstein was happy about Hertha’s lead, but in the end it became painful for him again. Bernstein asked BZ after the final whistle: “I’m fine, I’m on the road to recovery. The defeat hurts more!”
It also hurts goalkeeper Tjark Ernst, who says: “We are all mad at ourselves, we are responsible for the defeat. The mood is sad. The mistakes and lack of concentration ran like a common thread through the entire game, and that affected everyone. That killed us!”