Jürgen Klinsmann

And you looked in every family of these players, you know, you saw they're coming out from backgrounds where it's a never give up mentality.

Hunger and also responsibility that we carried.

You know, we always, obviously, even our generation, we still needed to justify ourselves for the horrible things that happened in World War II.

You know, and so you still, in a certain way, even if your generation is not part of it, but you still feel responsible.

You still feel like, you know,

There's a bigger picture to everything.

You know, you have to do more.

You cannot give up.

You need to act a certain way.

I remember as a captain, we played a game in Israel and we went to a Holocaust memorial and we put down a wreath and the whole was live on CNN, you know, and everybody just told before, I said, just not make any mistake.

But I said, what kind of mistake?

Yeah, not wearing the wrong...

outfit, not, you know, I don't know.

So we were always conscious about what happened in World War II.

And I think that gave us an enormous amount of also capability to focus, just to zoom in.

Zoom in, now you gotta get a job done, yeah?

Don't step too much to the right and don't step too much to the left.

And I think these tournaments, we develop this mental capability to, okay, you know, we're not the best team here.

There are better teams here, but...

Somehow, we're going to figure out a way to beat any of these teams.