In 2024, Mats Hummels will join AS Roma. For the 36-year-old German champion and world champion, it is the first foreign station of his career – and his last as a professional soccer player. Tommi Schmitt is accompanying him.

In very personal conversations, Mats Hummels takes Tommi with him on his Italian journey. A journey on which the Dolce Vita under the southern sun turns into a dramatic sporting rollercoaster for Mats Hummels. At AS Roma, Mats goes from being a benchwarmer to a regular, from scoring an own goal to being a celebrated hero in injury time.

What is life like in Rome? How does he look back on his career? What do his companions, coaches and teammates say about him? Tommi Schmitt meets the coaches who have influenced him the most: Joachim Löw, Felix Magath, Hermann Gerland, father Hermann Hummels and others.

WRITER: Christian Twente     DIRECTOR: Christian Twente, Leonard Claus     CAMERA: Martin Christ, Torbjörn Karvang, Leo Adass    EDITOR: Andrej Jelic      SOUND: Jan Beckhaus, Amitt Darimdur, Christiane Vogt     COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Daniel Nemetschek (ZDF). Paul Wolff (ZDF), Fabian Farwick (ZDF)