Jürgen Klinsmann
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I totally get it now.
Now I'm the most angry one when I see a dive.
And when I see it, OK, this is not a penalty.
This is not business.
And then I coached for six years.
I coached the United States and we played Mexico.
Three times, four times a year we played Mexico because that's the only big rival you have really.
And there was a situation where I said, this is not possible.
I mean, they would kill him in England.
So I understood the English way of looking at that.
And it was that way because he's a type of a player that you can adjust so easily as a teammate because he's always thinking of you.
He's thinking of his partner more than he's thinking about himself.
So I always knew that when the ball goes close to him, he already knows where I am.
And so the first thought was always about who's better positioned than me.
If he knew then at the end, I'm perfectly positioned to do it myself, he finishes off himself, which is the right way to do it for us strikers.
But it was for me like being in heaven, playing with him.
And I said, this guy is incredible.
And he's very appreciative.
When he sees that you have a bad day and for whatever reason you don't finish off the things the right way, but you work really hard with him and you keep working and working, he wants to kind of...
He wants badly more for you to score than himself to score.