“Sometime in the face”
Modest coffee celebrations cause trouble
4/23/2022, 7:54 p.m
Anthony Modeste is getting 1. FC Köln ever closer to participating in international business, but despite his next goal, the goalscorer causes disagreements: he uses his goal against Arminia Bielefeld for his own advertising campaign. His trainer stinks.
Surreptitious advertising or cult cheering? Anthony Modeste from the Bundesliga soccer club 1. FC Köln caused discussions with his goal celebration in the 3-1 win against Arminia Bielefeld and received a strong rebuke from his coach. After his goal to make it 2-1, the Frenchman ran behind the goal in the 43rd minute, where he had deposited a pack of the coffee he had produced in an FC bag from the fan shop and held it up to the camera. Then he threw the package into the ranks. “I never forget where I come from,” said Modeste afterwards with a wink: “It was a little thank you because the fans always support us. So I gave some coffee. I can’t give my jersey.”
His coach Steffen Baumgart found the action less funny. “It’s always thin ice,” he said: “You mustn’t overdo it, otherwise you’ll usually get – to put it a little harshly – in the face at some point. I don’t want to say more about that.” Sky expert Dietmar Hamann expects further trouble for the goalscorer. “He will get a penalty, rightly so,” said the former international. “In today’s world, when it’s all about commerce, when the relationship between fans and players is scratched, it’s not very sensitive. I have little understanding for that.” In December, Modeste presented his own coffee brand.
“Rather Deep Gashing Wound”
Another personal issue did not cause trouble at 1.FC Köln, but rather worries: Former international Jonas Hector had stitches in the dressing room after a collision at the beginning of the game and then voluntarily had himself replaced. “He had a pretty deep gaping wound,” said Thomas Kessler, head of the licensed players area at FC: “We sewed him up in the catacombs and subjected him to checks. He passed them and said it was okay. That’s why he’s back on the field pitch. But then he realized that he was getting a bit of a headache and felt a bit dizzy. And then it’s exemplary when he says it’s not working.”
Coach Steffen Baumgart explained that Hector “had the feeling that he had problems with some coordination things like assessing the ball”. The Cologne captain collided with Bielefeld’s Alessandro Schöpf after three minutes, then disappeared into the dressing room for nine minutes and came back with a head bandage. Fifteen minutes after his return, he left the field. “We will now subject him to more detailed checks. If players complain of nausea and dizziness, we have a duty of care,” said Kessler: “But after the game I had the impression that he was doing better.”
For Schöpf, things went less smoothly, he was on the pitch until the 85th minute. “It was a kind of boxer cut, but fortunately not that bad,” said interim coach Marco Kostmann: “It was glued over the eye. There’s a small scar, but that’s the appeal of the flaw.” Bielefeld was also so relieved because in the last three games Fabian Klos, Cedric Brunner and Fabian Kunze had to be substituted with head injuries.