Jürgen Klinsmann
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And then later I took over to the 96 European Championship winning team.
So I think it kind of gave us additional energy.
He thought for many years I kicked him out of the national team.
At 96 he was not called in.
because he had a horrible injury the year prior.
He thought, I didn't let him back in.
I closed the door.
I said, I never did that.
But he came back for the 98 World Cup team and in France.
But no, it was like that.
we kind of gave each other constantly additional energy.
I think...
It's difficult to say because it's like this.
It could have gone either way.
Oh my gosh.
There are so many opportunities that England had in both games that easily could have won both tournaments.
But I think the cultural path of Germany was that through the 54 and the 74 teams winning the World Cup,
You know, there was building an extreme amount of resilience in our society in Germany.
And I saw the resilience in my parents.
And Lothar Matthäus had a similar family.