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take part and send us your story we are trying always understand this new culture. not even a turn off and yet you want to become citizens. in so migrants your platform for reliable information. you. haven't totally normal guy i'm not normal want maybe if you want news. this is the normal one you're going to close up. a completely normal person and that's what i want to say that. but how normal can someone really be who can lift
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up an endangered dormant. titles in a road going or bit more a little bit more about football than. some other people our normal can someone be who is given the once world beating club liverpool a new lease of life. in this room think. how 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. being focused perfectly before we ask him what he has to say our exclusive interview with you going to club now with kick off life. my old friend and fellow journalist and. haven't met him in years but he hasn't changed and i can
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speak like a waterfall if you speak three words english english prose they sample from. the top sixteen it would be top six germany when. i first interviewed him twenty years ago in mind. then again and he became a legend in germany and now which i think liverpool. when we first met in mind. knowing something here and talking english what's the main difference from then to know. i am at least much older. job change completely. i was in in mind. in the very beginning responsible for absolutely everything wrong the football team
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we had fifty percent highland sporting director and to the people of the club pretty much to the side of the it was really been the best way to learn which opens with you have to do everything in nobody's really watching it because my know it was interesting months so i had to learn when to learn the hard way and mean. what i did that time alone i have now i would say nearly twenty assist in four so i'm no really the manager of the coaching staff and. i can't do that because i know what they're all doing because i do that by myself so that made me to. the time when i left. a lot on the stage i said all i am. or what i became. that you had to and that's exactly what like it is i learned everything there and could use that for the rest of my life i was.
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well i am still using the same two it's used. here as to use my interest of full people so i was always very interested in 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 and. just every day it's like acting constantly in a glass house constantly for their was easy whatever you do each mistake each for their age good thing it's a bad thing well this if you are good too outstanding if you are not good you are the worst in the world so it's nothing there's not there's only black white there's no great color. disappeared somehow. i was always a pretty calm person that's probably nobody can really imagine that because i look
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quite different and have been a bunch of bull but we have a ball for 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. i said probably we spoke about that i'm not sure that 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'm still doing the boy somehow younger than my son said so and i still like you. so that's it and that's. only players with world class potential not all of them will be both class but class potential and my job is to help them to become brady loss and that's that's a job to do and that's not to date been already eighty percent about football but the last twenty percent can be read a decisive and that's my job. induct month he did the same he picked young
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players and built a family very successful one. i always ask myself how did you choose this player. how do you do it. do you do it by instinct more by instinct i know my brain or assess something in between like bulk of the chest and. think. it depends. it's too important i want to can not speak my belly that's too 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 you. 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 needs of his experience and i try that players are
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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 if you want to sit here because a very good footballer otherwise it would be a waste of time most of the meter. not good football agree on this and then asking about our club or whatever so. you're talking with someone life life and. god and the good world. but it was possible that it's possible not not really likely to be honest. everybody knows. that i'm really the christian but it's. not. i don't know because you know so i don't i'm not a mr whatever that said it's all just so people live in a free world and we cannot. it's not my mission. talking off belief most people in liverpool would see the tide german as the messiah and. that
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probably hasn't been any german before him that english people adored this much. you can call his perfect for the people of new york clubs are doing a good job it. would trigger the spirit it's absolutely thrilling it's. and this season might make dreams come true liverpool are tight in the race for the league title and are in the champions league semifinal what will be impossible for liverpool as a cup winning the premier league winning the champions league very famous question actually. on friday night it's winning the premier league. and then on wednesday when the germans league then on sunday said today when you go from a league then on tuesday evening to the terms league and then said are they after that or sunday i think we're probably so. becoming that decision we have to play our best football in each game but if you are so people that's. very. obvious on so
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from the people it would be winning the league winning every game waiting for the long yeah but is that the kind of question people are honest i just need to ask people around the stadium if you the prize for winning the league this year would be that you never can watch a liverpool game anymore in the stadium or would you say. there's my ticket. like forty years going each home game and field rolled what's a game that shows how much it means so easy easy answer. but what can we do and 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. of course is how does a lot to the right for last year because it was difficult to write verses always do because you go to terms like five so i'm already blessed that it was or a device they had it's unbelievable most of my colleagues have to vote their whole
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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 a meeting or i'm afraid which 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. and now if you'll try it again if it's possible of course but it's like this the world out there is like this if i mean well 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 to win i 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 lose six files in
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a row and still goes to a seventh when 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 find it everybody's darling in england improving germany's image abroad he's now been nominated to become the german football ambassador. of the weapon surprised when i met you and learned that you german. i think you heard you hear immediately that i'm from germany that we never get rid of all german x. and it says the day they tell us that we have german it's a really hard language and for us it's like the thing which is being slang isn't so soft and i can and never will be able to speak like that that just not possible so they were not surprised that i'm sure because they hear it immediately but of course it's you you realize that it's actually a time where people when they think about you on
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a lot of good experiences they met some germans here when they made them in the american friends 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 to be all came closer to each other and they'd be so i would not show how many foreign people live in london to be honest it's pretty much like berlin if you speak english anyway and berlin by the language you speak in berlin and german so and i love that to be honest in london it's english of course as well but it's the same from all over the world they come together and that's what what i really love. i don't like this area of thinking and that while there were other love most about you would it be 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 i still often idea when players go abroad but what would be your advice be open just be open and be
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a baby and learn the language as weak as possible it helps a lot so the nice thing with english people is that the they know way they did they don't speak very much any foreign language because they don't have to the whole world is speaking in it so why should learn a foreign language for us we always be doing lish but they are not a lot of drama but about their rebuts really nice is if you speak three birds english english person makes a sentence of it so they want to understand you. oh yeah i know what you mean and then they help you so but still it helps a lot if you are in for the language has always been. with socializing and coming to adults it's brilliant but on top of that just be open and really learn and learn this maybe for young people especially sounds like a negative birth because it means a reading a book whatever but it's learning it's actually learning from from life how they are why they are like this which for me is really true. this is something that. you
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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 and not you know sorry i don't need it so it's just it's about it's a nice addition is a different sort of money to make good and it's all it's all a little bit of it because his machine and i still can't understand why people think i have no confidence want to have you so for different reasons but that's only one little thing so i understand it bye bye bye people are doing to have tea time they call. dinner they call it for tea so this makes more sense but it's just me but if you're fourteen you have a t. nothing with in t.v. but it's so they call it installed so little things what 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 yes yes yes yes so it's like this is 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
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under the if 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 a good 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 santa chasing unlike club i don't want to describe the only thing i could. ask anybody in this room think. that i do want to know so let me work i would totally normal guy came from black forest. my mother maybe sit in front of the television and watch this press conference and said no word i'm still no. but just very proud she's very proud so i'm a totally normal guy i'm the normal one maybe if you want to do this. when you came here and you introduced us of us of a normal one and we were sitting in germany and laughing because we knew you and oh
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you know i am one hundred percent but if you don't know what the others what 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 your own 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 will be only the only thing i know about myself as 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 because i had no real english skills about from i'm not the generation grown up of ok we had could have heard a lot of music and learning english by that like my son's that actually but it was not the music i so my english was kind of another press conference and we all know
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famous press conference with a lot of my peers and stuff i guess first time in new york and he don't want to be famous for that problem says the language my niece is not ready. my german is better and i have the. list. understand. i'm also a little bit lucky and can even if you know the american look at championships then i said what i said i was not prepared i said normal and that's how i see myself that's not. i don't know how to say things 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 completely 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
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make me a special person to those in me only luck because five hundred years ago with that i could have slept in the street so with the knowledge and i'm really lucky person that my best skill is needed somehow. and that's what i appreciate every single day i know haughey coaches day work i wrote a lot of work five times more than i do and earn four percent of what i earn so i'm not a happy person i would be really crazy but i'm smart enough not to overestimate that not to think i'm bald as i think because it's strange it's just football so. my how i see me i'm a completely normal person and that's what i wanted to say that day and now it's on a teacup. but been through notice at any time that you made me a little more normal misnomer than the others because you know i'm different from
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the others i think what am i so different from others now i have another skill and it's again pure luck and i can't. see it so i can speak like a waterfall. and don't i'm not worrying about what people think that's true that's true thank you so i'm not absolutely pure gift i know that there's a red light camera i'm not getting nervous. so that keeps me completely calm in 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 no it's a pure time so how could i be proud on a tele. so but in the world out there with the outside view on you is really important it's an important skill. obviously that's an important skill but again
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pure coincidence five hundred years ago i would have could have danced in front of the king probably. and all the rest. of the sleep together to st so i know you're a lucky guy one hundred percent i said a couple of times but it's really like that. the directors or the head of my school were going to and i did a level and i want to sports price for my best friends one science prize and. language prize and i got a spot for this money so he said in front of all these other guys who got a lot of the night with a mike in his hand i hope it works all the football because it's not really worrying about you so i hope you know and i thought ok i think the same but why you have to say that now is this that i really can hear it so i will 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.
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and what happened to german football since you went away ah that's the explanation no but those things 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 a little bit. in the development that can happen but i saw no a jump to playing against holland after. your bit of money if you would bought bad decisions to be honest but it was full of skills full of talent full of you with full of joy and all that stuff was really really good team and. i thought if that's if these are problems then no problem. really so. it's always it should be life
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like this why should always the same country with everything why should always the same to him we know everything so there are moments when you have a high in moments when you have rather low if you learn of it everything is fine and that's the real problem in germany and with international football like european league germany italy. this discussion we have already for a couple of years in germany always when the teams are not that successful it's the same. we have to admit just an even more money around that's the truth because of the money so it's a different system it's only a system it's not like it's not a club all going to have it in germany and that makes life easier that you have just the top six in england would be top six yes to get a dog in germany as well would be in italy and spain. would be in that because they're just so good just really good football teams if you're here no there's not much you weigh can go you could be like the king of germany and coach someday the
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national team or you could go to play on clubs like that do you have a picture of yourself in the future no you don't do that no not at all nothing interesting about about maybe. if i think about my future as a future when i stop working oh yeah that's when the going is 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 said it will be you know it happened i sit on a bench when i'm seventy or something like that for everybody much earlier if you stop working on a lot of things i did look the first part of my life was had only had a really good life but first of all of us i had no money and no time and then i had a bit more money at immediate no time anymore and i have to money but absolutely no time so it means i didn't see anything of the world if i see you citied and i see the stadium and the hotel and the street we drive the bus that's it
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so i miss the most precious thing i'm on pretty. pretty famous rather than old face so i cannot go to a lot of places without signing autographs or what makes this a problem for me because i most of the time tie up if i'm not working so but it's like this 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 a plan actually to go with it on if the boys and rancher want to try as they're going to have no problem but that's it. thank you very much welcome. did you know kick off is now on you tube with the world of football. like you and quad automatic. to read we travel the world and really feel how high things as
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