The thing to understand about where Thomas Muller has come from, Munich, is it’s a city where their biggest sporting stars just go about their daily lives. They go out to the pizza shop. They go shopping. They sit down in a restaurant and just spend time with their neighbours. Article content

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That’s just how the culture is.

“Let’s just say that last week twice I saw Vincent Kompany just out and about,” explains Manuel Veth, the German expatriate soccer reporter who now makes his home in Victoria.

He’s been back in Germany and now Italy, visiting family along with his Canadian wife, for more than a week. And every time he’s back home in Munich, he’s reminded how gentle society is, how everyone seems to know where Harry Kane, t

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