Jürgen Klinsmann
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We've got to go forward and bring in some attacking options.
They might have the same thought, but not the same timing as we in Germany or in England have.
So they wait until 10 minutes before the end, where I say then, why are you waiting so long?
You're down 1-0.
You have only 45 minutes now to turn it around.
So I realized then, OK, you've got to be spot on the last 15, 20 minutes.
But I had no problems with it because I was a runner.
I love to run and still today I love to run and so I was waiting for the last 20 minutes to get people tired.
I think, so the DNA of German football is, and it's always a cultural discussion, you know, and it's actually very similar, I think, to the English DNA is we like to take risks in a certain way and we like to go forward.
So that means we don't like to wait what the other people are doing.
We rather do it.
And that's how I experienced in my first time.
It was very similar to Stuttgart or Bayern Munich when I played there.
So we're impatient, both nations, English and German.
I'm impatient.
We want to get things moving forward somehow.
Let's move.
Let's do something.
Meanwhile, the Italian culture is we wait.
It's like a chess game.