Grischa Prömel signed with Stuttgart this summer and, as part of the club’s ritual with its players, they handed him a brand-new Mercedes-Benz. Anyone else would have taken it for a spin that very afternoon.
He isn’t like that. Prömel still gets into his more-than-20-year-old Ford Fiesta, the same one he has no intention of replacing. The reason has nothing to do with the car itself: his grandparents gave it to him.
Some objects carry more than just miles. For this German midfielder, that Fiesta holds a family story that no Mercedes can replace.
Luxury can wait in the garage; grandparents can’t.