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10 iconic Solomun moments
The best of the big man
Being offered a place on Germany’s under-16 team
At 6’3” with an athletic frame, Solomun was quite the footballer and still rates Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit as one of his all-time inspirations. When he was a teenager he was even offered a place in the Germany’s national under-16 team but turned them down because he felt such a strong affinity with his country of birth, then-Yugoslavia. Subsequently he ditched sports altogether, telling us in 2012: “Many, many years later I understood that decision. Everything I do, I do one hundred per cent. I have to stand behind it. I don’t compromise. If I don’t have fun or my heart is not pumping, I can’t do it.”
