Goalkeeper Bert Trautmann legend about the relationship between Germans and Englishmen, David Beckham and the Verweichlichung in professional football
Berlin - Bernhard "Bert" Trautmann played after World War II as a German in England. As a former member of the Wehrmacht met the 85-year-olds now beginning to open hostility, but Trautmann was a hero. 1956, he rescued Manchester City despite a neck fracture in the cup final victory and was the first foreign footballer of the year. THE WORLD spoke with Trautmann on the occasion of the friendship game Germany against England.
The World:
If Germany plays against England - for whom are you, Mr. Trautmann?
Bert Trautmann:
England is my home, just like Germany. When Englishman in Germany criticized, I defend them, just as vice versa.
German and English are sometimes astonishing parallels on: Almost at the same time have Joachim Loew and Fabio Capello their national players a code of conduct imposed.
Trautmann:
When I Man City in 1949 began, I got the booklet in hand, as large as a check card, ten pages: A code of conduct for players.
What was it?
Trautmann:
What I was allowed and what is not: how the clothes to be had, what I as a professional responsibility on game days and to society in general have. And much more. But then other values prevailed. Football is a beautiful game remained. But today we give him the ridicule.
The ridicule?
Trautmann:
I'm not one of the older generation, saying: "When I played, everything was much better." That is true only in certain respects. Today we hypen water makers in the world. There are so many alibi-footballers. Why we now have so many injuries?
Probably because many were no injuries earlier.
Trautmann:
Except my neck fracture, I was never sick. Although I also had broken thumb or wounds in the face. It has been played. But the player-audience relationship was different. The football has evolved from the people away. There is something lost: culture, values. Workers from the sport has become something Prestigious. For Robinhos weekly earnings at my former club Manchester City, 180 000 pounds, I would have to play one hundred years.
Are you jealous of these salaries? Especially since so many players so much deserves, because he is the right hairstyle or woman has.
Trautmann:
I have nothing against David Beckham, not even as a player. But for us, he would not be the first team arrived. Because we are under very different conditions have played. We have in our shoes and urine gepinkelt three days and three nights left in it, so the leather is supple. Or the courts: At Christmas, only the corners of snow freed. Beckham had since no flank beaten. Behead slide tackles and he can not anyway. This is a completely different type.
How do you see Michael Ballack, when Chelsea for the third year in the Premier League plays?
Trautmann:
He had a huge change, to have initially quite nicely to Minna made.
Also because he is German? How is the image of Germans in England today? 1949 than you started at Manchester City, received 20 000 people against this transfer onto the street.
Trautmann:
Ballack had problems sporting reasons. A year ago there was a survey after the Germans the most prestigious in England are foreigners. There were on the island after the war, of course, bitterness and rejection. When I as a prisoner of war in the trucks drove through villages, since there were angry glances. But even those who said: You poor pig. Know your parents that you still live?
What do you think about today's goalkeepers? They have launched attacks were a - what today is celebrated as modern.
Trautmann:
No comment. I would just talk in Rage. I never thought that I was a great goalkeeper. Meanwhile, I know that I was there.
Who should be referred to Kahn and Lehmann in the German goal stand?
Trautmann:
Adler is good, new, too. Both have yet to learn. The quality of a goalkeeper is defined by how much work his defenders declines.
Berlin - Bernhard "Bert" Trautmann played after World War II as a German in England. As a former member of the Wehrmacht met the 85-year-olds now beginning to open hostility, but Trautmann was a hero. 1956, he rescued Manchester City despite a neck fracture in the cup final victory and was the first foreign footballer of the year. THE WORLD spoke with Trautmann on the occasion of the friendship game Germany against England.
The World:
If Germany plays against England - for whom are you, Mr. Trautmann?
Bert Trautmann:
England is my home, just like Germany. When Englishman in Germany criticized, I defend them, just as vice versa.
German and English are sometimes astonishing parallels on: Almost at the same time have Joachim Loew and Fabio Capello their national players a code of conduct imposed.
Trautmann:
When I Man City in 1949 began, I got the booklet in hand, as large as a check card, ten pages: A code of conduct for players.
What was it?
Trautmann:
What I was allowed and what is not: how the clothes to be had, what I as a professional responsibility on game days and to society in general have. And much more. But then other values prevailed. Football is a beautiful game remained. But today we give him the ridicule.
The ridicule?
Trautmann:
I'm not one of the older generation, saying: "When I played, everything was much better." That is true only in certain respects. Today we hypen water makers in the world. There are so many alibi-footballers. Why we now have so many injuries?
Probably because many were no injuries earlier.
Trautmann:
Except my neck fracture, I was never sick. Although I also had broken thumb or wounds in the face. It has been played. But the player-audience relationship was different. The football has evolved from the people away. There is something lost: culture, values. Workers from the sport has become something Prestigious. For Robinhos weekly earnings at my former club Manchester City, 180 000 pounds, I would have to play one hundred years.
Are you jealous of these salaries? Especially since so many players so much deserves, because he is the right hairstyle or woman has.
Trautmann:
I have nothing against David Beckham, not even as a player. But for us, he would not be the first team arrived. Because we are under very different conditions have played. We have in our shoes and urine gepinkelt three days and three nights left in it, so the leather is supple. Or the courts: At Christmas, only the corners of snow freed. Beckham had since no flank beaten. Behead slide tackles and he can not anyway. This is a completely different type.
How do you see Michael Ballack, when Chelsea for the third year in the Premier League plays?
Trautmann:
He had a huge change, to have initially quite nicely to Minna made.
Also because he is German? How is the image of Germans in England today? 1949 than you started at Manchester City, received 20 000 people against this transfer onto the street.
Trautmann:
Ballack had problems sporting reasons. A year ago there was a survey after the Germans the most prestigious in England are foreigners. There were on the island after the war, of course, bitterness and rejection. When I as a prisoner of war in the trucks drove through villages, since there were angry glances. But even those who said: You poor pig. Know your parents that you still live?
What do you think about today's goalkeepers? They have launched attacks were a - what today is celebrated as modern.
Trautmann:
No comment. I would just talk in Rage. I never thought that I was a great goalkeeper. Meanwhile, I know that I was there.
Who should be referred to Kahn and Lehmann in the German goal stand?
Trautmann:
Adler is good, new, too. Both have yet to learn. The quality of a goalkeeper is defined by how much work his defenders declines.
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