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Do you remember that?

Yes, I remember that.

That got three million views.

66,000 likes it did very well.

I know that you always strive for improvement.

So we're gonna try and beat that today.

Do you think you can beat that?

I have no clue.

Theme from the countryside village with 1200 people living there.

So there wasn't a lot to do.

But we were like 78 boys.

We were the football team.

Were the skiing team here on the tennis team.

Tennessee model, all of us.

So we that's the most our life.

And so I started really early. 00:00:59.830 --> 00:01:2.660 I smashed the first window in our living room and I was two years old. 00:01:2.910 --> 00:01:8.600 My mother told me I don't remember that when you two years old, Yeah, my father put the gold in our living room. 00:01:8.840 --> 00:01:11.450 And obviously, Mrs what happens from time to time.

And that's how it started.

Then the postman or Mehlman was my first official coach.

My father was always It is cowardice in the countryside.

You need somebody who invest time.

You talked a little bit about planning a lounge there in Black Forest was their pictures everywhere with no pitches.

Where did you play football Domain?

The main beach over there.

I had to run wild 78 times, training a week.

Wow.

Because we played in the garden off a friend own sessions, but only wait, that's a really nice area.

Black Forest way have no whatever.

But how did you call the other pictures? 00:01:56.440 --> 00:02:3.550 Okay, J K Street from or not that a proper proper pictures was really, really good time. 00:02:3.620 --> 00:02:7.300 What age did you start realizing that you were good enough to one day? 00:02:7.300 --> 00:02:7.980 Make it pro? 00:02:7.980 --> 00:02:15.690 Is that with their moment in your life When you know, as a kid, you you think you think I'll just have to I can make it, but I'm not sure I really thought about it.

The only things I was pretty much from the first day I touched a ball the best football in my village.

I made the next step to the biggest job in our area to his acting is the name because they wanted to sign another player, you know, another year.

So they want to sign him.

But it was 30 kilometers from my from our home in it.

And so he didn't want to drive four times a week alone.

So they thought Okay.

Could you take us?

Took me Because a good Yeah, just take the other one.

One of the jobs did you have when you were starting out playing football?

Because I've read that you had some interesting jobs when you started.

When you have money, you need to be creative. 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:0.060 So I worked in a company. 00:03:0.940 --> 00:03:5.050 They have storage to sit in my movies. 00:03:5.220 --> 00:03:6.080 Okay, today. 00:03:6.080 --> 00:03:12.550 Now, maybe that big, but that time I really like you Can't imagine having that.

So I was there at six o'clock in the morning.

So they brought in all the movie several back.

We have to start them and give them the new movies and all the commercial stop around the post things, the job I did before university.

Then I went to university.

Then I went to training, and after training, I went to a bar in Frankfurt and Howard Jurgen Klopp The manager described Juergen Klopp, the player big, hard.

Really, I was really I was a fighter.

I fought with myself.

Everybody else so very quick.

Very good header on a good Wally.

I never had a really good picture of myself.

I never really liked my football.

To be honest, it's but every manager I had in my 11 years and minds. 00:03:59.090 --> 00:04:1.900 I played always pretty much that was always in the day. 00:04:1.900 --> 00:04:13.030 Found always a position for me is that style is a striker, became a 10 became a seeks for a couple of games and became a right fullback and state as a right fullback for like the most.

The most time.

I think.

Seven years old.

So you're predominately uses.

All right, fullback, You've obviously got one of the best right fullbacks in world football Downtrend.

Alexander Arnold, That is my train Right back.

Would you tell him?

I don't know.

I would have lost his crosses.

That would be a good striker with proper strike.

But so I was completely different.

I didn't get a lot of a meta send a harmful played with me a couple of years ago, okay?

And I told him you know that?

We played 300 games together and you passed the ball twice.

Three always looking like I was therefore heading challenges called cake Stuff like that?

I don't know exactly. 00:04:59.890 --> 00:05:2.650 I lost the game too much for stopping by the hate of my own football. 00:05:3.410 --> 00:05:4.890 Yeah, okay. 00:05:5.010 --> 00:05:6.680 Ball is coming here. 00:05:6.680 --> 00:05:7.630 You know what you have to do. 00:05:7.630 --> 00:05:11.110 And here the foot is not doing it in the distance is quite long.

So from here, they're like so yeah, annoying.

You transitioned very quickly into management.

Iran When you were a player on a Sunday and a manager off the same team on a Monday.

How did that work in the dressing room?

Did the players respect you like a manager?

Or was it more of a friendship?

Both.

So it was like we were deep down in the table.

We're pretty much already relegated with 12 metres to go.

Read a real crisis, would say we had a meeting and the coach told us more or less from now, will be tried only with the young players in the club.

Heard that.

And I said, Okay, we do a press conference to sector manager.

You don't wanna become a kind of play with the kids.

Only thing is, we have to drive 12 matches to go.

So let's give it a try. 00:05:58.810 --> 00:06:3.580 So then they had no replacement and they asked me if I can do it. 00:06:3.590 --> 00:06:6.190 And I said Yes, but I don't play that anymore. 00:06:6.190 --> 00:06:6.910 This yes. 00:06:6.910 --> 00:06:7.880 Probably a relief. 00:06:9.110 --> 00:06:11.880 My teammates was never a problem because I was an experienced player.

Three.

I I checked the wage bill for them, so they came to me and something is wrong about what They are three times as much.

But I call the financial department of the club.

I was so long that I knew everybody.

Until you come on, you have to fix that.

It's a ride, stuff like this.

So I was kind of a respected person.

They respected me, and but it was a good friend of them as well.

So that the hard work it felt from the first day completely natural.

And I was like, for me, the biggest relief off my life, that I could be part of the game without my annoying football.

If somebody would have told me with 25 26.

So look, you know everybody saw.

You cannot play football up, but you could manage, the team said. 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:4.560 You think Wow, that's interesting is a lot of managers we speak to say that I've been places well said They prefer the playing side of it because because I got a camera. 00:07:5.260 --> 00:07:9.450 If I would be Pep Guardiola could have played football like blades of days.

Now we have to run about 25 people here for for the same things.

When I did that, time alone levels brilliant because I had to do it.

So I know about I'm not an expert everything, but I did everything.

That's why you've become so successful as a manager because you've experienced all parts of it going back to the days of minds.

You said there's 25 doing one person's job.

I don't think it's the only way, but my way and it's really it's absolutely for me.

It was perfect for me.

It was absolute perfect.

I lost analyzes.

I didn't for seven years completely alone until I found them.

Pete Kravitz.

Until you don't, you don't need to make that even an analyst.

You don't trust him.

It's like making allies, you watch anything thank you very much and engineers out to watch it again.

That makes no sense.

So you need to trust the people and to go island till I found somebody. 00:07:57.330 --> 00:08:0.350 But it was a big relief because I want I was really busy. 00:08:0.470 --> 00:08:3.670 I watched three games off each opponent be played. 00:08:4.090 --> 00:08:11.780 So I watched the game on the night after the game, our game and made analyzed with the players the next morning and start the media watching their next born again.

So I watch consummate and training period, which constantly games and ever.

I lost it to honest.

But at one time it was just too much.

So did the sculpting watch all the players we want to sign with this time was not on DVD recorder?

Yeah, that's how it is.

So it was Stephen.

Sounds like it was after Second World War, but it's actually only yeah, 15 16 years ago, you played the video thing.

You have to you remind it's like Theo in the meeting with the boy.

It's really it's not court, really.

Surprisingly, a lot of teams who wanted to sign me a time so but I didn't speak to anybody because the decision was made a stay at mine if you get promoted.

We didn't get promoted at the last Met today, so I didn't speak to anybody until then. 00:09:0.280 --> 00:09:6.990 So Sunday night, Because I said that we're not in a leaf after 18 years, big party in minds goodbye and stuff like that. 00:09:6.990 --> 00:09:10.550 So we were all pretty good Mood.

Good night.

You had a good reader, but I woke up next morning and watching my phone, and it was like, like 15 20 different hauling And Okay, so I was not really clear.

We had to think about my favorite club was always ports adornment because off the stadium, because of the tradition because of the size of the club.

But I didn't even know if they're interested.

So there was no way I saw it, that sort of any of the list.

And then yeah.

Then the maiden made an offer and we spoke on domain an offer and offer.

But, honey, that was lesser than but I earned that binds in the second division again, Like it like that and you anymore in the third degree. 00:09:57.010 --> 00:10:2.730 So know exactly, but it was really like minds was really generous because a good time and stuff like this. 00:10:2.740 --> 00:10:6.230 But you can't get rich with the most adult. 00:10:6.230 --> 00:10:8.970 But obviously thought we get a manager from the segregation and made some offer. 00:10:8.970 --> 00:10:11.850 And he said, Do you really want to comment about the money?

Are you serious?

I e yeah.

Okay.

But more in mind, I don't believe that my agent just that's going back for mine today.

What on that was that was exactly situation.

So we signed and fighting improved offer said It's really not about the money we just wanted.

I just want to go dog.

It was the perfect decision I've always wanted to be.

Oh, I'll take that.

I enjoyed the time from the first day, but the club was in a really difficult situation that time, but I didn't really know. 00:10:58.460 --> 00:11:3.730 So I'm so I'm so I'm so focused on mind on Don't be such a big club. 00:11:4.070 --> 00:11:15.690 And okay, I knew that they had financial problems before, but I thought it's kind of soldier didn't read for a while about it, so I came there and I said, Okay, we have exactly this amount of money and we need to send a Hobbit okay.

And then and then the following kind of showed me to send hardly one design and said, I'm not Don't like it, But if you can spend that money and let's go for Never supported, which was my play at mine, Yeah, so that was my heart started, but animals or good, we had just to solve the problems that the club was not in a financial lies not in the really good situation.

Um, so we had to do it with young players.

We have done players love doing it like this.

We had the sensation of a bunch off, outstanding footballer there.

Boys developed a lot way, had a lot of fun together.

And you said to find earlier with the parties when you had success, Obviously, you want league titles, that doorman.

I remember seeing the scenes with a few parties after the way party. 00:11:59.740 --> 00:12:0.460 Be smooth. 00:12:0.470 --> 00:12:7.600 I'm good and celebrating big losses as well, though, because it's looking your final. 00:12:7.600 --> 00:12:14.250 It's still a final, and we had to do that a couple of times, but it's more difficult than I have in mind.

Nobody knew us.

I think we could have celebrated naked.

Nobody did you celebrate naked?

No.

Okay, nobody could.

We were just nobody us and adorable was off course, different that change life.

And obviously there was some challenges.

Britta dormant as well.

Some of your players were sold and you have great rivalries of the likes of Pat.

How hard was it Thio work under those sort of conditions?

We never thought It's really hard.

It's of course.

It's like be lost.

Always.

Players.

2011 became champion newish.

I meant to, but we brought a gun.

A gun is not so bad.

One door closes one door open.

So that's how it is.

But at a specific point, then it's difficult.

Then be lost Mario Gotze and level over Levendosky. 00:12:58.920 --> 00:13:1.650 Then it's difficult to find replacements for these players into shape. 00:13:2.100 --> 00:13:3.570 That's very much not doable. 00:13:3.830 --> 00:13:5.160 This place was exceptional. 00:13:5.160 --> 00:13:7.810 Yes, have a cheap and we found them somewhere. 00:13:7.970 --> 00:13:10.220 But finding needs time to find.

And we had no time because they've left.

And we had to be ready before we knew that we have that problem.

I liked England before I lived here because I was here when I was 18 years old for 56 weeks by train injury.

Yeah.

Why did you come to England for that for that time period?

To be honest, my custody wanted We were just better.

Breakfast had attend from time to time.

We were on a camping grown in summer and it was good weather was unfortunately baby didn't use the 10 to off.

Why?

Said he was dead wet?

That it was not really to use it about bed and breakfast.

Hello.

So I said 10 helped you when you came to me.

Oh, no.

It was really like this.

That I at that time today that bed and breakfast was such a wonderful thing.