So far, the World Cup year has been plodding along almost leisurely, searching for meaning: test matches here, squad updates there. There would have been tension with a play-off, but everyone is happy that they didn’t have to do that. It was proven last week that time also flows by. Because after the seasons, after the holidays, the Austrian team players moved in. In bright weather, we met at the still relatively fresh ÖFB campus in Vienna’s Seestadt. As relaxed as the expressions were, as casual as the entrance photos were, there was also the inevitable fact that burned into our consciousness: now things are getting damn serious.
