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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
Sport
James Morgan

Monday Kick-off: Sympathy in short supply for Mateschitz

RED Bull Leipzig face Real Madrid this week in the other match in Celtic’s Champions League group.

There will no doubt be a minute’s silence and players of the Bundesliga side will likely wear black armbands as a mark of respect for Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian owner of the club and chief executive officer of the Red Bull drinks company, who died on Saturday night.

Certainly there have been plenty of tributes for the 78-year-old who went on a trip to Thailand in the early 1980s where he first tasted a syrupy concoction called Krating Daeng and subsequently turned it into an energy drink behemoth and himself into a multi-billionaire.

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