Jürgen Klinsmann
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So in that game, I scored the first goal for the whole team.
People still do it now, don't they?
I think I'm still today.
Did you dive?
No.
No, I did not.
But I understood then why, because when I saw then some of the images from the 90 World Cup, where people then said, this was not a foul, and it was actually a foul, I then totally get, yeah, you can see it from both perspectives.
And I think the one foul from the Argentinian player in the final, you know,
he cut me open six inches along my shin.
But, you know, I was lying on the ground and the reaction of me, however I did that, you know, rolling over and rolling even higher over, I said, what did you do there?
But it was my body reacting like that.
It was not really me.
It was not thinking of anything, you know, but he cut me open.
But looking at the images afterwards, I then totally understood why they're saying, oh, you were diving there.
And then I also kind of said, okay, if you think that way, it's all right, no problem.
But I did not purposely die.
Totally.
No, I understood it then.
I talked, obviously, with my Spurs teammates about that stuff.
And they explained to me the English perspective on these fouls and all these circumstances.