Juventus’ Kenan Yildiz and Borussia Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi caught the attention during their sensational 4-4 Champions League draw.
The pair of wingers, who both scored a world class goal each in the thriller, opened the scoring for their sides and then were seen in intense discussion in the centre circle.
Many assumed some baiting had gone down, but as the pair later revealed, they actually went to school together.
Yildiz may well be a Turkish international, but he was in fact born in Regensburg, Germany, where he went to school in Unterhaching with Adeyemi.
Speaking post-match, he explained the scenes by saying: “Those were a few jokes in Turkish. He knows a few words in Turkish. I think he sometimes thinks he’s better than me.
“He’s a really good player and a very good person. I know him from my school back then. We went to the same school in Unterhaching. I think he was in tenth grade and I was in fifth.
“People looked up to him. He was a bit of a role model at school back then. He’s a very, very good person.”
Adeyemi on his part then added: “We know each other. I went to school with him. He was younger than me.
“A very, very good boy, and of course, a very, very good footballer.
“I scored a goal, he scored a goal, and then we—as we say here—played a little bit of a joke, and I told him not to score any more goals and, better yet, not to run backwards.
“But that’s football. I get along well with him, and he’s a good boy.”
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