Striker Tim Kleindienst at the DFB: The horror fan experiences a football fairytale

Gladbach’s new attacker Tim Kleindienst has a penchant for horror and defines himself by his “scumbag mentality”. But above all he is a team-serving footballer whose qualities could now also be in demand in the national team.

When a telephone ringing breaks the silence in the horror films that footballer Tim Kleindienst likes to watch, it doesn’t bode well. The fact that Kleindienst didn’t answer the first call from national coach Julian Nagelsmann recently was simply because he wasn’t familiar with the number. He accepted the call the third time and, as he later reported, had one of the most enjoyable phone calls of his life.