Sunday 19th December 2021
Kruse complains about throwing cups
“All Ruhrpott Asis gathered”
Actually, Max Kruse could be completely satisfied and happy. He scores to win for 1. FC Union Berlin in the Bundesliga. And that as a newlywed. But after the game at VfL Bochum he returns the enfant terrible again.
At the end there was a “kiss on the nut”: Max Kruse, newly married and acclaimed as the winning goal scorer, let off steam at the end of an eventful and successful week – smugly grinning with a special greeting. After the 1-0 (1-0) win at VfL Bochum, the Union Berlin match winner dedicated an Instagram story to the “Ruhrpott-Asis”.
Max Kruse maintains his reputation as an enfant terrible and made no secret of his glee: “Victories like today simply taste best.” Beer mugs had flown to Kruse and Co. again and again in the Ruhrstadion, angry VfL fans drummed their fists on the roof of the guest players’ bench, and wild insults rang out against the Union professionals.
“I have seldom seen such anti-social fans as here,” said Kruse first in an interview with WDR2: “They are very big in the stands and then very small again.” When he was later on the bus, the ex-national player put his criticism of some of the Bochum viewers in a mocking Instagram video.
VfL is actually a sympathetic club, 80 to 90 percent of the fans are “still sympathetic”, but this Saturday “all Ruhrpott-Asis gathered in Bochum”. His smug closing words: “But that was probably nothing, dear ones. Good night to you. Kiss the nut.”
“Of course I was pissed off”
Actually, the 33-year-old had every reason to be satisfied with himself and the world. On Thursday he married his fiancée Dilara, whom he had proposed to live on television during the summer at the Olympics. Two days later he shot Union to victory with a dropkick (16th) in Bochum – and one and a half weeks after being eliminated in the Conference League, he was back on course for Europe. A real lucky streak for the passionate poker player.
He had already annoyed him that he had to sit on the bench for 90 minutes in the 0-0 draw against SC Freiburg on Wednesday. “Of course I was pissed off,” he said at Sky. Trainer Urs Fischer gave him the day off for the wedding in the English week and said that he would have to justify himself for it afterwards. In the end, the Swiss saw himself confirmed: “He played a great game, scored a great goal. It really doesn’t hurt to get a day off in between.”
With the Iron, after 27 points from the first half of the season, the mood is great, with the promoted Bochum, despite 20 points, however, a bit clouded. Because the end of the year with the 0: 2 in Bielefeld and the 0: 1 against Union, coach Thomas Reis and his players had imagined differently. Nevertheless, with a view to the goal of relegation, the coach said: “If the magic limit is 40 points, then we are fully on target.”