BITESIZE | Rainer Bonhof: Berti Vogts, My Friend and My Inspiration
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Rainer Bonhof, who describes his friendship with Germany and Borussia Monchengladbach team-mate Berti Vogts, who epitomised the German winning mentality.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:19.0 | you'll hear an elite football or tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
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| 0:33.0 | Yeah, there was suddenly something in the back which gave us the mentality to win. |
| 0:48.0 | So I remember me, for example, we had a great match in Ibrocks versus Rangers with Perusia. So there was a battle and in between |
| 0:58.9 | Scottish teams and German teams there was always a rivalry and so we made an absolute brilliant performance in |
| 1:07.5 | iBox and we went home with a win in the pocket so So and that was that was was implanted from of the |
| 1:17.9 | manager in everybody of the team to say hey first of all you have to do the things proper but don't think in losing |
| 1:29.7 | think in winning so and today or comparing to today sometimes there's somebody |
| 1:40.8 | opponent you would say he is unbeatable for us. |
| 1:46.6 | So, but we was teach no thinking in losing. |
| 1:51.9 | We was teach in winning winning winning, winning. And maybe that was a percentage in our heart, in our mind that makes us for the other ones unbeatable. So we had absolutely brilliant |
| 2:10.6 | performances with Barusia Minchingladbach in the 70s so |
| 2:13.8 | Ruyama with intermeelan Rangers I don't know so many so many more matches we |
| 2:20.9 | just won about the mentality we got. |
| 2:25.0 | Riner, I'll read you out if it's okay, the team, the 11 men that played at |
| 2:31.2 | Petodry in September 1972 against the team I love, the club I love. Negola was Wolfgang Cleve, then Bertie Vaux, Schmel Rostantau, Hainz Mikhailik, Herbert Vimmer, Guntinzer, Christian Koolik, Rina Bono, |
| 2:46.2 | Burnt, Rupp, Henning Jensen, Yensen, Yupinkis, and the manager was Hena Svesvila. |
| 2:51.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:52.4 | How privileged were you, that was two years into your professional career, to come into a team with Cleft and Nepzer and Jenson and New Pankis, but maybe particularly Bertie Vots. |
| 3:06.7 | Let's stop and talk about two or three of the guys in your team, because they stretch over several years. |
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