Jürgen Klinsmann
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We wait until you make the first move.
And if that's the wrong move, I'm going to kill you.
And it's...
You can see that in the business world.
You can see it in other sports or in other elements of the culture that Germany and England are both nations.
They're doers.
We're not waiting for the French.
We're not waiting for the Spanish, Italian, the Latin nations.
They are more relaxed.
They lean back and they wait for what happens first and then they find their
the way of disturbing you or beating you.
I think that's a discussion of confidence.
And confidence comes with the success.
And I think Germany had then, you know, we were fortunate that...
we could build on the success of the 1954 World Cup team because that team gave the country the permission again to stand tall after World War II.
Then we had the golden generation of 74, 72 with Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Overrath and Uli Hoeneß and these unbelievable generation of players like your 66 team and then
obviously the teams that came after.
So they pulled up some things that gave German football a lot of confidence because those, and then came the, we were kind of called, the 1990 team was called
the team of the reunification, bring both sides back together, East Germany and West Germany.
And we felt that support in the World Cup 1990, which we luckily won.