He was strong on the ball and strong with the words. The former gave him a great career, the second not only friends. At the announced career end of a leaders who sometimes wore his football understanding too often.
The message may be lapidar, but you have to pour it into real words at the right moment: “Now the moment is coming,” says Mats Hummels in front of the ongoing cameras of his own video, “around whom no footballer comes around.” Pictures from his past run in the background, the defense chief sometimes struggles quite credibly with the emotions. In summer, says Hummels, he wants to stop with great football. With this short film for social media himself, he staged his farewell. A bit like Hollywood. Only the happy ending is missing.