He will never be the biggest and he will probably remain as the last little goalkeeper to reach these summits. Yann Sommer is in the Champions League final, and it is proof that his 183 centimeters can resist the 2025 football injunctions.
But for that, you have to be called Yann Sommer. You have to be Yann Sommer. You have to be this technically perfect guardian, model of the genre, that all specialists in the position invoke when it comes to mentioning what is best on small details.
Yann Sommer is immense, while it is a nabot in the ruthless world of the doormen. What he has made for fifteen years, the progression he has had over the years tells at least as much a talent, as work and a form of resilience. It is necessary, for each week to take reflections on its size, the only aspect of his game on which he could never act. So he pushed everything else to extreme perfection, from the game to the science of displacement in space.
It is not seen from here, seen from Switzerland, that we will be surprised by the performance of Sommer. There, it is rather a feeling of self -centered satisfaction, even if we have not forgotten certain campaign of destabilization to promote Gregor Kobel in the goals of the national team not so long ago.
-Yann Sommer has probably never benefited from the respect he really deserved. Until Tuesday evening, maybe. Because being appointed best man of a match that will remain in history is to make a place in the memories of the whole planet. Has its fair value.
It is a question of considering that Sommer, from the top of his 36 years, is a prototype that we will no longer do again. This man challenged the laws of physics by remaining competitive in football that does not leave the right to make mistakes.
He also went to confront a club like Inter, where the pressure is constant, after being denigrated by the toxic environment of Bayern Munich. And you can’t help a smirk when you think it will be on May 31 in the Champions League final in Munich, in the Bayern stadium.
Yann Sommer is an icon. A Swiss icon.
