kontrol-ball-Germany
27 Sep 2007, 04:03 PM
I thought it would be nice to have a thread that could be about discussing or directing us to interviews for the German side.
Please give any links for interviews that the German NT players and staff have had. Here are a few to get going.
Interviews concerning the 2006 world cup:
kicker: Your position in front of the back four is considered the most important one in modern football. Pirlo, Makelele or Xabi Alonso are given the same role. By whom of them do you orientate yourself?
Thorsten Frings: By none of them. I want to put into practice my own conceptions of this role.
http://www.kicker.de/wmspecial/wm2006/startseite/artikel/351960
Another one from just before the world cup.
SPIEGEL: You want to encourage your players' own initiative. How do you plan to do that?
Klinsmann: We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career. They have to decide which advisors they have, whether they have a financial and legal advisor, maybe even their own fitness trainer. We tell them in several private talks that they have to create the environment around them that helps them develop. The player is catapulted into an environment at 18 or 19 that he's not prepared for. Understandably, he builds surroundings that only flatter him, that only speaks positively to him. Then he no longer knows who's being straight with him.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,415106,00.html
Q: Just tell me about the strengths of your team and your players -- a lot of people have looked at Michael Ballack as one.
A: Oh yeah we've been, he's our leader, Michael Ballack is our leader, he's our leader, and we're looking forward to the World Cup because that's his stage, that's the stage, the dawn of Zidane, of Shearer, Shevchenko, is the World Cup and whatever you do in your club team and winning European championships it's nice it's great, but the real stage is the World Cup so we have big hopes in Michael that the timing is the right one.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/03/22/klinsmann.text/
Please give any links for interviews that the German NT players and staff have had. Here are a few to get going.
Interviews concerning the 2006 world cup:
kicker: Your position in front of the back four is considered the most important one in modern football. Pirlo, Makelele or Xabi Alonso are given the same role. By whom of them do you orientate yourself?
Thorsten Frings: By none of them. I want to put into practice my own conceptions of this role.
http://www.kicker.de/wmspecial/wm2006/startseite/artikel/351960
Another one from just before the world cup.
SPIEGEL: You want to encourage your players' own initiative. How do you plan to do that?
Klinsmann: We want to start them thinking that they're responsible for their own career. They have to decide which advisors they have, whether they have a financial and legal advisor, maybe even their own fitness trainer. We tell them in several private talks that they have to create the environment around them that helps them develop. The player is catapulted into an environment at 18 or 19 that he's not prepared for. Understandably, he builds surroundings that only flatter him, that only speaks positively to him. Then he no longer knows who's being straight with him.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,415106,00.html
Q: Just tell me about the strengths of your team and your players -- a lot of people have looked at Michael Ballack as one.
A: Oh yeah we've been, he's our leader, Michael Ballack is our leader, he's our leader, and we're looking forward to the World Cup because that's his stage, that's the stage, the dawn of Zidane, of Shearer, Shevchenko, is the World Cup and whatever you do in your club team and winning European championships it's nice it's great, but the real stage is the World Cup so we have big hopes in Michael that the timing is the right one.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/03/22/klinsmann.text/