Olaf Scholz about Uwe Seeler
“Actually, he’s someone like us – only more successful”
Olaf Scholz and Uwe Seeler (right) in 2016 in Hamburg’s Volksparkstadion.
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Germany mourns the loss of Uwe Seeler. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now revived the HSV idol in a longer obituary.
All of Germany mourns one of the greatest football heroes of all time: Uwe Seeler died on July 21, 2022 at the age of 85. One of his companions and friends: the former mayor of Hamburg and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz (64, SPD). Shortly after the death of “Uns Uwe” became known, via Twitter expressed his sadness Scholz has now published a longer obituary in “Spiegel”..
“His fame – no, better and more important: his almost limitless popularity will survive July 21, 2022,” writes Scholz. Seeler has clamped both sides of the sport together in his city of Hamburg: “The self-confident and the modest, the glamor and the chalk dust, the admiration for a star and the realization: Actually, that’s someone like us – just a little bit more successful. Well well, much more successful.”
“Talent and, above all, diligence in training”
But Seeler was no less friendly, but relaxed and approachable. Incidentally, he became successful through two things: “Talent and, even more so, diligence in training.” In addition, Seeler was always very self-confident. Scholz recalls a speech for a place named after the HSV idol: “Without a manuscript, largely improvised, full of anecdotes, not without criticism of bad developments, and it worked.” Those present would have hung on his every word.