2024-02-03 07:18:14
Instead of red in white – SC Freiburg will play its home game against VfB-Stuttgart with the away shirts. This is for a simple reason: the Stuttgart team comes to the derby with green jerseys and a Freiburg player struggles with color blindness.
This means that he simply cannot see the difference between red and green. For him, both are simply brown. Freiburg coach Christian Streich simply says: “We don’t want someone to pass the ball to the opponent and then shoot it into the goal.”
He had previously had players who had problems with green and red. “I also had a player in the A-youth who played the ball into the opponent’s foot several times. At some point I asked him: ‘Is it still OK?’ Until he told me that he didn’t see it correctly,” says Streich.
Poor eyesight is very common – especially among men. Around nine percent are affected. This means that numerous fans will also benefit from the jersey swap. That was not the case at the World Cup in Qatar. At that time, Switzerland played against Cameroon, i.e. red against green. The ARD journalist Chaled Nahar wrote on Twitter: “The horror game for people with color vision deficiency.”
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