While playing football, Max accidentally hits Oskar in the head with the ball and apologises. But Oskar wants to keep the ball because it is the World Cup ball with which the national team won the fourth title. Oskar demands that ownership be determined in a match between the two cliques. After things don't go well in the first half, Max seeks advice from his teacher during the break in the game, because Maestro Barenboim once compared the work of a conductor with that of a professional footballer, as Max thinks he remembers. But he misunderstood the master. Because in truth, a conductor's job is more like that of a coach.