Jürgen Klinsmann
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There's one thing you cannot do going to England is being offended, you know, or being upset.
Then you lost with the English.
He said to me, he said, what am I doing?
I said, well, take some goggles with you to the press conference or so.
I make a joke at the press conference right away.
And I did that.
So, you know, I asked at the press conference, at the introduction, I said, well, I want to ask if you know a diving school in London.
I need to take some lessons.
But it came across, obviously, a little bit...
I was not relaxed enough, but they were laughing.
Okay, so it broke some ice.
And then the first game was at Sheffield Wednesday and we drove up with the bus and thousands of Wednesday fans had numbers out there, 5.8, 5.9.
And the bus drove up and it was a sellout crowd and the whole bus was laughing.
And I said, what are you laughing about?
And they said, Jürgen, it's all for you.
And Teddy had then a brilliant idea.
I didn't know how to take it.
Teddy said, I got it.
You score your first goal today and we're all going to do a dive.
Teddy's idea.