The withdrawal of SC Freiburg says a lot about Christian Streich's value system, and the admiration for him says a lot about today's Germany. But perhaps, for once, he didn't say what he really thought when he said goodbye.

TOEven after more than twelve years in front of a media thirsty for emotions, originality and clarity, Christian Streich sometimes seems amazed by the force that his statements can develop. In many cases the trainer summarizes the freiburg Finally, just put things into obvious words before social media goes abuzz because one of your comments about world events goes viral.

At the end of the season, Streich, 58, will retire from this astonishingly enriched public sphere, in which he was celebrated for his direct and genuine manner, but which was always a bit wary. him. “Of course this particular form of perception warps me,” he told 11Freunde magazine last summer.