"I didn't steal the penguin. I borrowed him" Lutz Pfannenstiel on his illustrious playing career and enhancing the scouting network at Fortuna Dusseldorf
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🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Taylor talks to Lutz Pfannenstiel about the many ups and downs of his playing career, his philosophy when it comes to scouting and roster construction, and the value American players represent in the Bundesliga. Plus, how he managed to bring in Zack Steffen, and why it's best not to end up in a Singapore prison.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode of The Total Soccer Show, I'm going to be talking to Lutz Fanonsteel, |
| 0:09.2 | director of sport at Fortuna Dusseldorf, and for folks in the United States watching the |
| 0:12.8 | Bundesliga on Fox. He's a voicel here doing color commentary. We talk about his fascinating |
| 0:18.2 | playing career, his philosophy when it comes to scouting players, especially American players. |
| 0:22.6 | He goes deep on Breini and Zach Stephan and how they ended up getting him on loan. |
| 0:26.5 | We also get into Lutza's plans for the future. |
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| 1:17.4 | slash big climb. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer Show. |
| 1:36.3 | My name is Taylor Rockwell and Daryl Grove is not with me today, because in his place, we have a man, a myth, and a legend all at once. He's a storied goalkeeper, |
| 1:45.6 | a television pundit, and the managing director of sport at Fortuna Dusseldorf. It's Lutz van Stiel. Lutz. Welcome to the show, and thank you very much for being here. You're all the welcome. I'm glad to be here. So as I said in the intro, some people might be familiar with your work from TV. You've been |
| 1:42.1 | on Bundesliga Games on Fox. |
| 1:44.3 | We met you in Germany. Daryl and I did when you came in to talk to assembled journalists about Fortuna, but there are probably some people who don't know you that well out there. So I have a quiz for you. I'm going to give you five facts about your life. You have to tell our listeners which one of them is not true. So we have |
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