A basketball is larger than football. Already of course. And of course there are no pears. Nevertheless: Even when Germany’s basketball players empowered the European Championship trophy, it felt like something was happening to the basket hunters that have been missing in German football for a long time.
The comparison does not lag. Dortmund’s bungling ego gamblers have proven: there is actually a difference between Germany’s kickers and basketball players. The truth is not in the field, but in the heart.
Regardless of whether the round has to go to the square or the Hushhusch ball in the basket: players play the game, teams win titles. When basketball captain Dennis Schröder is crying in the arms after the title of his teammate Daniel Theis, while the contract kickers are balancing the execution of a penalty, there is an apprenticeship in these scenes. When Germany’s national football players rumble strangely uninvolved, while their baskets of throwing colleagues jump into the European Championship final, then that says something.
A team is more than the sum of its parts. This rush applies to football as well as basketball. Psychologists speak of “purpose”: a team that subordinates all personal ambitions to the common goal will be more and more successful than a purpose community of career athletes. Kicking Ich-AGs that primarily want to increase your own market value do only one thing in common: fail.
German football has proven it itself. The 2014 World Cup victory, the last star of the DFB team, won a conspiratorial brotherhood that was aware: If we do not win this year, most of us are too old. The 2014 did not want to cede “unfinished”. That made her strong. This hunger has been lost to her successors. The basketball players, on the other hand, have him. Common greed wins titles. No matter how big the ball is.