After a long saga, Nestory Irankunda has finally ended up at Bayern Munich. It took many months of negotiating and more months of waiting, so it may be a little much to say it all happened too fast for Irankunda to process. But how did that moment of realization go? What about Irankunda’s family?
Speaking to FCBtv, as captured by @iMiaSanMia, Irankunda spoke of his disbelief in the moment: “It was a text message. I was at the [youth] Asian Cup [in March of 2023]. It was kind of a shock when I heard about it. I didn’t believe it, but then I got a phone call and they told me about it, so I kind of believed it. My family were really happy, but they were in shock as well. They were confused, they didn’t know how to feel at the time. But now they’re very happy.”
It is perhaps a little anticlimactic to get the news from a text message, but if it works, it works.
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