Karazor dedicates maiden goal to his team: “The boys have always believed in me.”

In his post-match interview with German broadcaster DAZN last night, VfB Stuttgart captain Atakan Karazor spoke on what it felt like to score his first Bundesliga goal. 

After 118 top flight matches, VfB Stuttgart captain Atakan Karazor finally scored his first goal in the German top division during last night’s 3-2 home win over 1. FC Union Berlin. The 28-year-old’s inaugural Bundesliga tally literally came as a gift when FCU keeper Frederik Rønnow telegraphed a horrible clearance directly to him. Such a present caught him off guard and Karazor seemed unsure as to how he should celebrate. 

“I didn’t know what to do,” Karazor remarked in his post-match interview with German broadcaster DAZN yesterday evening, “I could have celebrated in ten different ways at one. In the end, I opted to run over to the boys on the bench as a means of demonstrating that we’re a strongly [cohesive] team.” 

“The boys have always believed in me,” Karazor continued, “I’m glad that they were so happy for me. One can use the whole second half as a lesson. Nick gave us a brilliant spark. We didn’t give up after conceding that [second] goal. We just proved again how good we really are.”