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Early April 2013. It is well past midnight when Murat Yakin enters the Rio bar. The FCB coach is greeted with a song that will probably have followed him for months. “Your hair is beautiful, your hair is beautiful.” At the bar, the builders of success, Bernhard Heusler and Georg Heitz, hug each other. It’s a night for the history books. Europa League semi-final qualification. Tottenham out, a magical evening.
The madness starts hours earlier. 36,000 fans fill the Joggeli to the last seat. It’s pouring rain. English weather. Aleksandar Dragovic, who stroked the bald head of Federal Councilor Ueli Maurer during the cup celebrations last summer, misses the ball and American striker Clint Dempsey scores the lead. Mohamed Salah, who later goes to Chelsea for 20 million, scores the equalizer with a wink and runs straight into the arms of substitute Alex Frei. He had informed the Egyptian, who had previously been hailed as a death chance, that it didn’t matter how the ball crossed the line. main thing inside. Soon after, Dragovic of all people assembles to lead the Basel team.
All dams break in Joggeli
Since Dempsey scored the equalizing goal minutes before the end of regular time after an unfortunate action by Yann Sommer, it went into extra time after the 2-2 win in the first leg and then into a penalty shoot-out. Marcelo Díaz, Basel’s Chilean midfield brains, sinks the decisive penalty and at first does not realize that he has just decided the game.
It is only when his teammates run towards him like a herd of buffaloes that Díaz realizes that FCB is in the semifinals. After that, all dams break. Thousands make a pilgrimage to Barfüsserplatz. Decades later at the Rio Bar.
And Murat Yakin? He still has beautiful hair today.
Source : Blick
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