Jürgen Klinsmann

I thought, you know, they need to understand me that it's not okay coming two days late.

And so I told the story and one Italian, I don't know who it was then.

I mean, there were personalities in that locker room at Inter Milan like Zenga, Bergami Ferri, Aldo Serena was my striking partner.

We had about five, six Italian national team players that played the 90 World Cup.

It was a really good team.

And so one lad stood up, came and kind of right in front of my face and said, Jürgen, it's very simple in Italian.

And I understood, okay.

I said, it's very simple.

All you take as Italians the way we are, I'll get the heck out of here.

And I didn't know what to say.

I was probably red in my face, you know, and

And I was shaking a little bit and said, oh my God, what did I do?

What did I do wrong?

You know, so I said, okay, you know, and I sat back on my spot and for two or three minutes I was thinking and thinking, what do I, it was all quiet in the locker room.

And everybody was thinking, so how does he take that now?

How does he take that lesson?

And then after two, three minutes, I realized he's so right.

I'm a guest here.

I'm coming from a different place.

I have to learn to take them the way they are, not they have to take me the way I am.