Union Berlin Racing Through the Champions League (2)

Before Union Berlin played their away match against Manchester United in the Champions League, an international break was scheduled.

‘There’s a league match after the international break, and then the Champions League after that.’

Until then, Union Berlin had benefited tremendously from being able to use international breaks as rest periods thanks to the club’s low profile, but after winning the Bundesliga, the club’s reputation had risen, and they could no longer hope for such lucky breaks.

Union Berlin’s players had also begun receiving serious call-ups to their national teams.

[Union Berlin captain Yannick Voigt called up to the German national team.]

[‘The beauty of a late-blooming flower.’ Yannick Voigt called up to the German national team.]

And among all of them, the news that attracted the most attention was none other than Yannick Voigt’s call-up to the national team.

In truth, judging by Yannick’s performances, he should have been called up for international duty long ago.

However, his call-up had been delayed because various interests were entangled within the German national team.

- I admit that Yannick is an excellent goal scorer. But is he really good enough to push Klose or Mario Gomez, who have played alongside him on the national team until now, out of the squad...