In the summer of 2013 a Bosnian man named Vahid Cehaja went on a long walk—a 600 mile walk, to be exact. He walked from his home in the town of Bugojno to the Allianz Arena, home to German soccer club Bayern Munich.
Why did he do such a thing? He had first come up with the idea in 2010 as Bayern prepared for a Champions League final against Italian club Inter Milan. He planned to take the walk to celebrate a Bayern victory which would have been the club’s fifth triumph in the world’s greatest club soccer competition.
Unfortunately for Cehaja, Bayern lost 2-0 to Inter Milan.
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Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.
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