Thuram on his spitting attack: “I’m glad that something like this happened”


Thuram on his spit attack
“I’m glad that something like this happened”

The action was ugly, but apparently very instructive: months after the nasty ghost attack against Stefan Posch from TSG Hoffenheim, Marcus Thuram provides an unusual explanation. Unusual also because there is a remarkable level of self-reflection in it.

The French international striker Marcus Thuram from the Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach sees an important lesson in his spit attack against Stefan Posch from Hoffenheim in retrospect. “Even at the risk of it sounding strange: Today I’m glad that something like this happened,” he said in an interview with his father, world and European champion Lilian Thuram, of “L’Equipe”. “Without this incident it might have been even worse. Maybe I would have become a different person,” said Thuram: “It was a turning point from which I drew the consequences. Now I have understood.”

The 23-year-old justified this unusual explanation by saying that he was on the wrong track at the time. “I was in the most emotionally disturbing phase since playing football,” he said. “I played well in the Champions League, I was nominated for the national team for the first time. Without knowing why, I started to I didn’t accept certain things anymore, like, “You won’t talk to me like that”. “

Thuram junior had been suspended from his club for five games, a fine of 40,000 euros and a monthly salary for social purposes. His father didn’t really want to talk about this anymore. But he told his son exactly, “what I think of it. Because I love him too much not to tell him the truth.” But he was all the more proud when he fell on his knees after a goal and remembered the African American George Floyd, who died as a result of a brutal police operation in the USA. “I knew then that my son had grown up,” said Thuram senior. However, that was six months before the spitting incident.

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