Cologne’s head of sports Horst Heldt has reacted to Bayer Leverkusen’s club boss – with a clear counterattack. The fact that Bayer Leverkusen poached 16-year-old talent Florian Wirtz from 1 FC Köln caused a lot of commotion in the West. In the course of this, Fernando Carro, Chairman of the Board of Management at Bayer 04, said smugly about the FC on Thursday at the SPOBIS in Düsseldorf: “Clubs like Atletico Madrid have no idea that football is also played in Cologne. Horst Heldt did not leave this uncommented the next day. Asked about this, the sports director of the 1st FC Cologne answered at the press conference: “Who said that?”, only to say about Carro: “I don’t know him. I don’t think anyone outside Leverkusen knows him. I know Rudi Völler, I know the coach. But a Mr. Carro? I don’t think I know him.”
