Jürgen Klinsmann
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Podcast Appearances
Thank you.
But I admire you from afar.
You know, I live in Los Angeles now almost 28 years.
Even if I did adventures back and forth in Europe with teams in Germany or Bayern Munich and others.
But I really like your show.
Oh, thanks.
But to get it off the table.
So tell us about Los Angeles.
What's it like living over there?
My wife, she's Californian.
I bumped into her when I actually left Monaco in that time period for Spurs in 1994.
We met and yeah, then in 97, Jonathan, who's the goalkeeper now, he was born in Munich when I played for Bayern Munich.
And in 98, I finished my career after the World Cup in France.
And there we had the decision to make where should the boy grow up, you know, California where her family is or Stuttgart where my family is.
And with all due respect to Stuttgart and my family.
after living in milano london monte carlo with us in wenger two years in monaco uh wow it's gonna be a bit difficult to go back to stuttgart for me and uh yeah i was clear that we're gonna go to to southern california and we live about 45 minutes south of los angeles um in an area called orange county uh newport beach and it was the probably one of the best decisions we ever made
Because you just wish your own kids the best for them.
You want them to do well and you want them to reach 100% of their potential and hopefully they get
the right people at the right time and in his case he never really had the right people at the right time he bumped into people and it didn't match you know and and he uh unfortunately you know and he's now 29 and he started so he did two years university first and then he was playing the under 20 world cup 2017 in south korea when england had a fantastic run with the under 20s and it was very
one of the top three goalkeepers in that tournament.