Jürgen Klinsmann
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And we were running for the title with Olympique Marseille.
We were head on head.
And he left him out a couple of times.
And I said, there was a certain point I said to, and I was the only player allowed to talk to him also in German because he speaks flu in German.
I said, coach, what are you doing?
You know, I was straightforward.
You can't put Juri on the bench, he's one of our best players.
Yeah, I know, but he's young.
He said, yeah, I know he's young, but he's one of our best players.
But he doesn't understand yet what it means to be a professional.
I said, what do you mean?
I said, yeah, he's out, he's drinking here and he's smoking there.
And I said, yeah, I know, but he's one of our best players.
We want him in the title.
No, no, he needs to learn his lessons.
And he gave him his lessons.
So he left them out on the bench and he went through that.
He was steady on him.
And month by month, you saw the change in Juri becoming more and more professional.
And I would be interested to have him now on the table and talk about that process that he went through.