Niclas Füllkrug arrived early at the Adidas campus just outside Herzogenaurach, a picture-postcard town in Bavaria that was to host the German national team before this summer’s European soccer championships.
The staff had been told that players would start arriving on a Monday morning, a few days before their opening game.
He had decided to make the 300-mile journey from his home in Hanover by high-speed train on Germany’s national railway carrier, Deutsche Bahn.
But years of failure to invest in rolling stock, upgrade railways and digitalize signal boxes have made Deutsche Bahn notorious for delays and cancellations.
He spent the journey fielding their questions about life with the national team.
Persons:
Niclas Füllkrug, —, Füllkrug
Organizations:
Adidas, German, Deutsche Bahn
Locations:
Bavaria, European, Hanover