Our youngest, 13, and I are on the train to Munich. We are going to a Champions League match of Bayern, his favorite club. He knows a lot about it. Including the fact that Bayern won the European top prize three times in a row in the 1970s, led by Franz Beckenbauer. But does he also know his nickname? I’ll give you a hint: in German, he was the most powerful man on the field. My son, hesitating: “Der Führer?”
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