Jürgen Klinsmann
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, it's called your little record book.
You know, he put a sentence in that book and he said, I want you to write down every game you play
the result of the game, and because you want to be a striker, how many goals you score.
From the age of eight on.
I wrote, I have it at home, that book.
The German Football Museum wants it so badly, I said, I'm not giving it away.
And I wrote down every single game I played until you became professional then.
Then it's okay, then other people have the books.
And that second season I played as a nine-year-old.
I had two games.
In one game I scored 16 goals.
In the other I scored 15 goals.
The game was two times 20 minutes.
So we had a very strong centre-back.
He kicked the ball upwards and I took care of it.
I scored.
I picked the ball out of the net and ran back and put it down because I wanted to... 31 goals in two games.
So in that season I scored 106 goals in, I don't know, 20 games or whatever.
But I wrote it down and then, yeah, later on they made a book with it, you know, well, 30 years.
That's amazing.