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This is the football daily with Steve Crossman.

Hi there, I'm Steve Crossman and in this podcast, myself and Nader Manoeu, are talking to

a man who during his 18-year career had over a hundred goals for club and country, one

eight Bundesliga titles, the Champions League, the Europa League, the FA Cup, O and the World

Cup in 2014.

The best of the best is all about Bastion Schreinstiger.

The biggest debates, the biggest names, the football daily podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

Bastion, hello, thank you so much for joining us.

How are you doing?

Thank you, I'm fine, I'm very glad talking to you guys.

Alright, let's jump right in then Bastion, because we basically want to do your story

and we'll come on to the current Manianite team and all of that kind of thing.

But let's go back to the start.

So when does football first come into your young life as a kid growing up in Munich?

Actually, 1990, when Germany won the World Cup in Italy, that was the first tournament

I was following on TV and so there was my big idol actually, Franz Beckenbauer, who

was a coach, has been a coach there as well.

So that was the first time I really was into football and then of course my father, he played

in a second division in Austria actually and in the third in Germany, so I became more

closer to the sport.

You came from a proper football in family as well, didn't you, your brother Tobias was

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