Jürgen Klopp
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I got one more game to sleep there with my friend, you and Kamli, there in the same room.
And then the next day they all told me, yeah, you get your own room.
Oh, okay.
But all the rest, we were a real bunch of friends.
And they respected me from the first second.
We had Wolfgang Franke, the best manager we all had when we were at Mainz.
He was an exception.
We, at Mainz, we were a football team who lost all the games when the other team had better players.
I think it sounds normal, but you know, in football, it's a way to win games anyway.
We never had that.
So then Wolfgang Franke comes in and implements four in the back, ball-orientated defending, and we did nothing else than that.
And we changed overnight.
into the one opponent nobody wanted to play against.
We were like machines.
We were like machines.
We are not great football.
We were like machines.
There were games our goalkeeper didn't touch the ball once.
We were just defending.
It was new that time, so it was really for all of them.