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if you want. this is the normal one you're going to. have a completely normal person and that's what i want to say. but how normal can someone really be who can lift up an endangered. titles in a row. i've been or more a little bit more about. some other people now normal can someone be who is given the once world beating club liverpool a new lease of life. how
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normal can someone be who can lead to different teams to the champions league final and can compete for the premier league title and can be more well liked in england than any german ever before. perfectly legal we asked him what he has to say our exclusive interview with you going to club now with life. my old friend and fellow journalist i haven't met him in years but he hasn't changed and now i can speak. english exposing himself pop up to. the top six. i first interviewed him twelve years ago in mind. then again and became a legend in germany and now with liverpool. when he first. in minds
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thinking the folk in german know we're sitting here and talking english what's the main difference from then to know. i am the least model of. a job change completely dropped into a big guy. i was in in mind. in the very beginning with a sponsor before absolutely everything wrong the football team we had fifty percent higher than sporting director and you know the thing about the club pretty much to decide oh the mystery of the best way to love the job and if you have to do everything in nobody's really watching it because my know what was interesting minds so i had to learn that we had to learn the hard way and mean boss off what i did that time alone i have now i would say nearly twenty assistant for him so i'm already the mantle of will be coaching stuff and. i can't do that because i know
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what they're all doing because i did it by myself so that made me to. the time when i left right up to see a lot on the stage that said all i am and all but i became. that you had to and them that's exactly right like it is i learned everything there and could use that for the rest of my life i just knew. this was coming. through i am still using the same two. and minds here as to use my interest of full people so i was always very interesting people so didn't change the problems of the boys changed a lot because of social media and stuff like that much more pressure my money's of off the pressure increase incredibly so and that's all they're very young. to me
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every day it's like acting constantly in the glasshouse constantly for their was c.c. whatever you do each mistake each failure it's a good thing it's a bad thing well there's if you're good you outstanding if you're not good but you are the worst in the world so it's nothing there's not there's only black white is no gray. colors. disappeared somehow. i was always a pretty calm person that's probably nobody can really imagine that because i look quite different when a bunch of bull but we have evolved in a football game it's true. that in normal things of life i'm completely calm and now meanwhile i'm much more experienced than i was that time but. probably we spoke about that i'm not sure if years ago because i was a very young father had to learn it pretty early to take care for young people. and that's what i was doing the boy somehow younger than my son so so i still like it
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a lot and so that's it and that's. only players with world class potential not all of them will be world class but the world class potential in my job is to help them to become. class and that's that's the job to do and that's not done already eighty percent about football but the last twenty percent can be really decisive and that's my job. and dump money he did the same he picked young players and built a family a very successful one. i always ask myself how does he choose his players. how do you do it. do you do it by instinct more by instinct on my brain or is there something in between like bulk of the chest and. it depends. oh it's too important alone he can speak my belly that's too
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important and the things it's too expensive let me say it's too expensive the people trust me a lot and and so i cannot spend millions but i think it. could work if you sign a player you have to know as much as possible it's easy to find a good football player to know him as a person. or learning about him as a person it's not that easy to the needs of his experience and i try that players are very often surprised when i meet them first time that we don't talk at all about football because the thing is already done for me because i want to sit here because a very good footballer otherwise it would be a waste of time i should have made. a lot good football to be honest and then asking about our club or whatever so. talking with him in life my friend terry. gold and the good world. but it was possible that that's possible no
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not really likely to be honest. everybody knows the meanwhile that i'm reading that i'm christian but it's. not. i don't know because you know i'm not that i don't i'm not a christian whatever that said it's all just so people who live in a free world and we cannot. it's not my mission. talking of belief most people in liverpool see the tide german as the messiah and. they're probably hasn't been any german before him that english people adore this much. being called was perfect for the people. doing a good job in. what. they experienced absolutely crickets. and this season might make dreams come true liverpool at tight in the race for the league title and are in the champions league semifinal what would be more important for liverpool winning the premier league winning the champions league very famous
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question actually. on friday night it's winning the premier league. and then on wednesday when the germans league then on sunday said that they will hear from a leak to say he willing to the terms league and then settle the after that or sunday i think when the premier league so. because i make that decision we have to play our best football in each game but if you are so people that's. very. obvious on so from the people who would be winning the league winning every game waiting for the long yeah but is that the kind of question people around us are just there to ask people around the stadium if you the prize for winning the league this year would be that you never ever can watch a liverpool game anymore in the stadium what would you say. is my ticket. like forty years going each home game and field road what's a game that shows how much it means so easy easy answer and. but what can we do and
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i'll be on the terms of semifinal i think we should still try. last year you were very close to winning the tempest. do you think. this game have. already forgotten or is that what you're facing both though of course is how does a lot to write for last year because it was difficult for the right person is always there because we go to terms like fun so i'm already blessed that it was or a device they had it's unbelievable most of my colleagues have to be a whole life with all they have a really good coaches don't have the teams i had and i don't have the experience i had to face by meeting or i'm afraid as i was the final it's a really interesting experience where i was losing it is a very interesting experience as well not something you need but it's like a very very strong medicine which you actually want. but if you take it it still can help and that's actually how we took it. you know if you will try it again if it's possible of course but it's like this the world out there is like this if
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i'm probably. lost the last six finals i was in. that didn't make me a broken person or whatever so for me life is tried and tried again and tried again if only if only the winner was allowed to survive then we all have to go so i really think it's not about winning and so i'll try that if that's if that's the the god who ever thought i need to show that somebody can do six miles in a row and still goes to the seventh and i'm the perfect person for that that's all it is. i don't know who decided it but. obviously a funny guy. even having lost some trainers he still everybody's darling in england . proving germany's image abroad he's now been nominated to become the german football ambassador. people surprised when i met you and learned that you gentlemen
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. i think you heard you hear immediately that i'm from germany to be never get rid of all german x. and it says the day they tell us that we have the german is a really hard language and for us it's like the thing which is being flagged and so softly i could and never will be able to speak like that that just not possible so that i'm not surprised that i'm sure because they hear it immediately but of course it's you you realise that it's actually a time where people when they think about joining a lot of good experiences they met some germans here in the med i'm in the middle american france where would i met them as all good people so it's a good time actually for your it doesn't look like with all the breaks of things around but it's actually the time we had in the european union helped obviously that we all came closer to each other and be so i was not sure how many foreign people live in london to be honest it's pretty much like berlin if you're speaking english and you and berlin battling which is speaking better than german so and all of that to be honest in london because in this of course as well but it's the same
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from all over the world they come together and that's what what i really love i don't like this barrier of thinking. and that for the other lost most of all that you would have been cool to travel wherever we wanted and needed a passport but actually didn't have to show it i know that it's not always that easy one hundred percent but still off the idea when players go abroad but what would your advice be open just be open and learn the language as quick as possible it helps a lot so a nice thing with english people is that the they no way that they don't speak pretty much any foreign language because they don't have to the whole world is being is a way to learn a foreign language for us to be always be doing this but they are not a lot of drama but what they're really what's really nice is if you speak three birds english english person makes a sentence of it so they want to understand you. i know what you mean and then they
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help you so but still helps a lot if you're going to learn the language has always been. with socializing and coming to god also it's brilliant but on top of that just be open and really learn and learn as maybe for young people especially sounds like a negative birth because it means a reading a book or whatever but it's learning it's actually learning from from life how they are why they are like this so it's for me it's really true. since everything that. you know how to go i stopped drinking coffee. and i mean it would be if you would have asked me. two years ago if you want to two years i'm not in the story i don't need it so and it's just it's about it's a nice addition it's a different sort of money to make good and it's all it's all a little bit of the copies machine and i still can't understand why people think oh i had no confidence well i have years so for different reasons but that's only one little thing so i understand it bye bye bye people are doing it with a hefty ten they call. they call it forty so this makes no sense but it's
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just everybody to have fourteen and seventeen nothing with in t.v. but it's ten or so they call it installed so little things would you only understand really when you live there because you don't find it in any books so you're quite good integrated with the one hundred percent yes a yes yes yes yes i said so it's like this if you have a full english breakfast you could have offered me in germany three times we're going to set five times i don't want it so i don't want that and you are now here under the you get it in germany think one egg a day or you die of a heart attack if you die of a heart attack after one egg a day then all england collapse tomorrow because they have five eggs in the morning already. seen them a special one. that's jose moving you introduced to save a child see unlike club i don't want to describe myself the only thing i can say. ask anybody this room think. that i
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do want to know so let me work i would totally normal guy came from black forest. and my mother maybe sit in front of the television and watch his press conference and said no word i'm to know. but he's very proud she's very proud so i'm a totally normal guy i'm not normally one maybe if you want to know is. where you came here you introduced yourself as of a normal one and we were sitting in germany and laughing because we knew you and oh you know i am one hundred percent but if you don't know what the others want to i don't know i don't know this is what do you look first of all and i know that's how it is. life is very often this kind of marketing you have to be on marketing business like you have to sell yourself stuff like that that means you have to prepared for things like a press conference or whatever i was and i'm really only the only thing i know
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about myself is read that i can react pretty spontaneous so because my whole life is my preparation for what i feel as long as i talk about football i'm always prepared because i think so much about it it's strange. and the press conference my only worry was that i did them that my english would be good enough so because of course i have no real english skills apart from i'm not the generation grown up of ok we could have heard a lot of music and learning english by that like my son's that actually but it was not a music guy so my english was kind of another press conference and we all know famous press conference with a lot of my peers and stuff i guess first time into your going to don't want to be famous for that problem says the language my niece is a lady. my german is better and i have the least i can list. understandable english. i'm also a little bit lucky and can be next you know the american look at him then i said what i said i was not prepared i said no normal and that's how i see myself that's
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not. i don't know how to say the english but it's not that i did i want people thinking he things he says is annoying but he knows he's a special know what i would have said like this i'm completely because i think about myself as a complete a normal person i have so many questions still much more than answers means how can it could i be special how could i be exceptional so i am an obit more a little bit more about football than. some other people that's true that doesn't make me a special person it was in me only luck because five hundred years ago with that i could have i would have slept in the street so with that knowledge and i'm a really lucky person that my best skill is needed somehow. and that's what i appreciate every. single day i know hockey coaches they work i work a lot they work five times more than i do and earn four percent of what i earn so i'm not
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a happy person i would be really crazy but i'm smart enough not to overestimate that not to think them all as i think because it's strange it's just football so. my how i see me i have a completely normal person and that's what i want to say that day and now it's on a teacup. but then through notice at any time that you may be a little more normal on this normal than the others because you are different from the other side from what i hear different from others no i have another skill and it's again pure luck and i can't. so i can speak like a waterfall so i don't i'm not worrying about what people think that's true but that's true thank you so i'm not yeah absolutely puke if i know that so it's a red light camera i'm not getting nervous. so that keeps me completely calm in
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a situation where ninety percent all day i get nervous that makes me different it's a pure coincidence and a pure skill i have nothing i didn't teach myself in that i didn't try to get a target it will be like this completely not it's a pure time so how could i be proud on a tele. so but in the world out there where the outside view on you is really important it's an important skill obviously it's an important skill but again pure coincidence five hundred years ago i would have could have dance in front of the king probably. and all the rest. again at this level getting to st so i know you're a lucky guy one hundred percent. he said a couple of times but it's really like that. the directors or the head of my school when i did a level and i want to sports price my best friends won the science prize and. language wise and i got a spot for us funny so and then he said in front of all these other guys who got
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a lot of the night with the mike in his hand i hope it works all the football because if not i'm really worried about you so i'll help you never have thought i think the same but why you have to say that now in this that i really can hear it so i knew i was lucky. people miss him in germany. the good old days spent dogman surprised europe and german football was top of the heap. and what happened to german football since you went away ah that's the explanation no but those it's i do a there's a word like that so sorry no it's no it's of course nothing really you went to the place you could put it like that. yeah it's my decision and no. nothing really it's just after a long long spell of fantastic results big success there's
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a little dip. in the development that can happen but i saw no a german team playing against holland after. you're going to be made if you would. be honest but it was full of skills full of talent full of you would full of joy and all that stuff was a really really good team and. i thought if that's if these are problems then no problems really and so. it's always it should be life like this why should always the same country win everything why should always the same team we know everything so there are moments when you have high and moments when you have rather low if you learn of it then everything is fine and that's the real problem in germany and with international football like european the. mostly. this discussion we have already for a couple of years in germany always when the teams are not that successful that's the same. we have to admit just in england is more money around that's the truth because of t.v. money so it's a different system it's all
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a system it's not like it's not a club all in isolation like we have it in germany and that makes. life easier than you have just the top six in england would be top six yes to get a dog and buying in germany as well would be in italy in spain bubba you know there would be in that because it's just so good just really good football teams here here no there's not much here the way can go you could be like the king of germany and coach someday in the national team or you could go to play our clubs like that do you have a picture of yourself in the future no you don't do that no not at all nothing found interesting about it but maybe. if i think about my future as a future when i stop working oh yeah and i was going to miss that because that should be a moment when i still have. enough energy to do. things i had never time for so it should not be that i see to be what happened i sit on the bench when
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i'm seventy or something like that everyone watching over you if you stop ok. there's a lot of things that i do look at the first part of my life was only a really good life but the first part of our life was i had no money and no time and then i had put my money at immediate no time anymore and now i have the money but absolutely no time so it means i didn't see anything of the road if i see the city and i see the stadium and the hotel and the street we drive the bus that's it so that's the most precious yeah i'm pretty. but if i was famous rather than old face so i cannot go to a lot of places without so i think i was of all the crap sort of makes a problem for me because i most of the time tie up if i'm not working so but it's like when i hope for the day when i'm long enough out of the business people don't recognize me the streets anymore and then i go and see the world that's
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a plan actually to go with the song if the boys and ranch i want to try as they're going to have no problem but that's it. thank you very much but. did you know kick off is now on you tube with the world of football. squad north of mexico. to read we travel the world can really feel how high fences are running i'm going to say you know the stars for me never people i just guess i am pretty serious in. the game. as a football pick up on you tube. it's not so important people think when you come in it's much more important what people think when you leave don't worry he's not going anywhere yet but we'll leave
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