In the noughties, he won one title after another with FC Bayern. Two decades later, Roque Santa Cruz is 43 and still playing football. In Paraguay, his homeland, he is making up for lost time.
For a moment, you could almost think that Roque Santa Cruz is sitting in a small fishing boat on a rough sea. The camera image sways from left to right, from right to left, as if he were rocking back and forth on the waves. Santa Cruz can no longer hold his cell phone still, but then, after a few seconds, he composes himself and sits quietly in his chair again.
It is only 11 o’clock in the morning in Germany, but it is already afternoon in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. When Santa Cruz answers the video call, he has a huge bookshelf behind him. He is wearing a white T-shirt and has a gray beard. There is no sign of a fishing boat or high waves. Santa Cruz has only disturbed himself – with a story about Felix Magath, with whom he won the double twice with FC Bayern almost twenty years ago.
