Fun video with ex-pro
Kruse laughs about suspension on YouTube
09/23/2022, 5:51 p.m
Max Kruse is no longer allowed to train with the team at VfL Wolfsburg, instead the footballer is having fun privately on the sports field. In a duel with ex-professional Kevin Pannewitz, Kruse is amused about his suspension and jokes about his form. How it will continue with him remains open.
Max Kruse’s employer VfL Wolfsburg shouldn’t particularly like these YouTube videos: The retired attacker is working on his career as an internet star. With cheeky sayings, the suspended professional takes part in his new section “Beat the Max” his situation in a nutshell. After an accidental shot, he says: “You can tell that I’ve been suspended for a few days.”
The 34-year-old presented on the channel together with his wife Dilara “The Kruses” the new category in which he measures himself against guests. For the first episode he invited the former Rostock and Wolfsburg player Kevin Pannewitz, who was once predicted to have a great career – but he never had a breakthrough. “Like me, I’m more of a fair-weather footballer,” said Kruse, not without self-mockery. Pannewitz is now part of the newly founded Berlin amateur football club Delay Sports, which was founded by an influencer and is cheered on by followers.
In the first episode of the format, both dueled in target shooting and free kicks. There was no shortage of provocative jokes: When his wife Dilara asked him if the goalkeeper’s warm-up was not his job, he replied: “I’ve done it more often now, but I’m slowly trying to concentrate on other things again.”
Both alluded to his thankless task at VfL to warm up the goalkeeper. Bundesliga coach Niko Kovac had suspended Kruse and publicly stated that he would no longer play a game for the club. Even on Thursday in the test match of VfL against second division Hansa Rostock (0:0) Kruse was not in the squad.
His contract situation is still open. Kruse has long been associated with a move to the American Major League Soccer (MLS) because his son lives there and because he has praised the USA in the past. The ex-player from Werder Bremen, Union Berlin, Borussia Mönchengladbach and SC Freiburg still has a contract with the Wolves until the end of June 2023.