Jurgen Klinsmann
Jurgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmannis a German football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of the United States men's national soccer team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the unified German team that won the 1996 UEFA European Championship. One of Germany's premier strikers during the 1990s, he scored in all six major international tournaments he participated in,...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth30 July 1964
CityGoppingen, Germany
CountryGermany
We firmly believe that we will be in the tournament until the end. This team is strong enough to overcome such setbacks. It's stable enough to put this behind us. With positive thinking, there will be no problems. We have to look ahead.
And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone.
Of course we're disappointed -- we had high hopes and there were smashed within the first minutes. It was a frustrating lesson for us, but we believe in this team and we believe in the young players. We're confident that everything will work in 100 days.
If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.
Lionel Messi is very much the team player, while Cristiano is very ego-driven.
If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'
This was the most difficult decision of my time as coach. Of course Oliver is disappointed, but he took it as a real sportsman.
We have done a lot of publicity for our sponsors, but from now on, we want to focus completely on the sporting aspect.
The race for the number one jersey is open and the decision will be made in May 2006, just before the World Cup,
The order is Kahn, Lehmann, Hildebrand at the moment but it can all change,
We have been following Manuel closely for a while. He has been constantly improving and is a very interesting player.
Luxembourg are a good opponent for our World Cup preparation. We will train hard in Geneva before the game.
Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,
Physically he is not fully fit at the moment and he urgently needs to win match practice.