Jürgen Klinsmann
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But their culture is, all the coaches, and Trapattoni included, get taught by their educational system, you play football, first and foremost, not to lose.
Then if in the last 10 minutes, we figure out how to score a goal,
We are heroes.
Fantastic.
We win 1-0 and everybody is happy.
And the fans are happy as well?
And the fans are.
So the fans get educated that way as well.
The media get educated that way as well.
So if you win four games, 4-3, 3-2, 5-4, they will criticize all the goals that you conceded.
They will not give you compliments about, well, you won.
And so coming to today's, even because my son is now down there and placed in that culture, they are still caught in this mentality.
They are caught of not taking any risks.
It's inevitable.
In their DNA.
It's normal for them.
So don't take risks.
And if you take risks only maybe the last 10, 15 minutes, where we would say, you know, this game is going the wrong way.
We are down 1-0 at halftime.
We have to make some changes here.