Jürgen Klinsmann
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I have to change.
I have to change.
So I stood up and I said, I'm so sorry, guys.
I think I got the lesson.
And then they were all laughing.
They were all laughing.
No, it meant I had to take, no matter where I go, and for the rest of my life, that is the key lesson was, me, it doesn't matter where I came from then, I have to take the people the way they are.
And I don't have to go anywhere in the world and expect the people the way I want them to be.
And it was a bit our German approach.
You know, we go on vacation and we put down the towels in the pool, all these old stories.
But there's a truth behind it.
You know, it's basically we are programmed a bit that way.
We want a Wiener Schnitzel.
We want the food the way.
But that moment, I really started then to always think, OK, how do they...
how do they, I mean, what is their philosophy of life?
And then I moved on to Arsene Wenger in Monaco.
The French people are different.
Then I came to England and obviously got my lessons in England too.
from the people in a good way, but I was prepared then.