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The 25-year-old full-back is currently the most sought-after footballer in Germany. On the last three Saturdays, there was no “Current Sports Studio” on ZDF where he could not have been added live from home quarantine or could not have been seen on him. This was by no means due to sensational journalism, but to the fact that Gosens is an extremely intelligent young man who knows how to express himself skillfully. His statements shake things up and can also make a big difference.
A key figure in the health campaign
“Sadness is currently unbeatable what happens to us,” he said. His expression reflected this outrageous sadness. «I hope and pray that we can be a terrible role model for other countries. I think it should be a warning to prepare for such a situation as much as possible. »
Gosens also appealed to people time and again that everyone should urgently stay at home. And if a footballer says that, it will probably get more people in his generation than if the Chancellor called for it. That is why Gosens has also become a key figure in the German stay-at-home campaign.
From the village club to the Champions League
The pandemic has also brought Robin Gosens’ personal story, which actually reads like a football fairy tale, to a standstill. He was never one of the highly traded talents in Germany. At the age of 18, Gosens was still playing at VfL Rhede, Landesliga Niederrhein, group 2. A village club where the focus was primarily on socializing. “There were nights when we stumbled more or less directly from the club to the game,” Gosens revealed last autumn to “11friends”.
Back then, professional football was about as far away from VfL Rhede as it was from the Bundesliga. As a teenager, Gosens actually wanted to be a police officer, but initially graduated from high school with a grade of 2.0 (in Switzerland 5.0). However, he was discovered, but the road led him to the Netherlands. The left-back ended up at Heracles Almelo through the offspring of Vitesse Arnhem and FC Dordrecht. There he noticed the talent scouts from Bergamo. In 2017 he moved to northern Italy.
With Atalanta, Gosens has become a key player and, even if he was only known to insiders before the corona pandemic and his media appearances in his home country, has attracted the interest of major clubs. Borussia Dortmund, Schalke and Chelsea are among others traded as possible new employers. With record national player and sky expert Lothar Matthäus, he also has a prominent advocate who recently called for him to be called up for the German national team for the first time.
The career highlight as the trigger of the tragedy?
The sporting highlight of Atalanta Bergamo and the career highlight of Gosens so far was the recently won quarter-final qualification in the Champions League. But just this great moment could have led to the great tragedy in the city. On February 19, at the 4-1 gala in the round of 16 against Valencia, over 44,000 celebrated together in San Siro in Milan and thousands at the public viewing at home in Bergamo.
After that, the Corona case numbers exploded, which is why Atalanta – Valencia is now often referred to as the “game zero”. These fears also concern Robin Gosens: “Of course you start to wonder whether this game was really the trigger for this bad situation.”
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