Bayern’s CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen spoke after the game against Leipzig.
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The potentially serious injury to Benjamin Henrichs in stoppage time had already depressed the mood after FC Bayern’s 5-1 win against RB Leipzig. When Bayern’s CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen took the microphone after the game and explained to the players about the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, there was no longer any possibility of Bayern celebrating.

The RB professionals initially ignored the request to interrupt their departure, but after whistles and a brief commotion they were informed and stopped. “I’m sure they didn’t know what had happened,” reassured Dreesen in the mixed zone.

Minute of silence instead of ceremony

The chairman of the board explained that the traditional Christmas ceremony at the end of the year would not be held after the crime in Magdeburg, in which a car drove into a crowd of people and caused deaths and injuries. “This ceremony should be a joyful one. “It just doesn’t fit at this moment,” Dreesen explained in a depressed voice. The decision was greeted with applause from the spectators in the stands.

Instead, he asked for a minute’s silence, “Because it is right and important to think of the relatives, friends and victims.” In the spirit of Christmas, the “festival of love and symbol of peace”, the choir present then sang “Silent Night, Holy Night”.

Somehow everything then appears in a different light.

Also for Marco Rose, who is opposite DAZN expressed, There was no football to think about. “Do we even want to talk about football today? Honestly. I got news more or less from home, from Magdeburg,” reported the RB coach and added: “Somehow the result and everything then appears in a different light.”

Accordingly, the 48-year-old native of Leipzig did not want to comment on the clear defeat. “Yes, we played football. Yes, we deserved to lose. Yes, we lost big. Benjamin Henrichs may have a serious ankle injury. But other things also happened today that just aren’t nice.”