From Kristi Schmidt: Hundreds of journalists from all of Europe were at Washday Airport this afternoon to meet Germany’s football superstar Manfred Pilzbanm coming in for next Wednesday’s Would Cup match against Italy. What has Pilzbanm got that’s so special? Last year he earned over 3,000,000 German marks, and it’s impossible these days to open a newspaper without seeing his name. “ After all, you are a soccer player, not an Einstein or a Schopenhauer?” I put it to him. “ So how many World Cup goals has this Schopenhauer guy scored, eh?” he asked. I told them that Schopenhauer was a philosopher not a soccer played. “ I’m a philosophy too. I’ll tell you my philosophy.” Pilzbanm said. “ You need exactly the same thing in football as you need in life. And in life, you need two of them. Do you get it?” “ I got it.”
