Robert Huth: Inside Jurgen’s German Revolution

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When asked who his toughest opponent in football was, Robert Huth doesn’t hesitate: Didier Drogba. Not just a beast, but also an immensely clever player. So was N’Golo Kanté, who Robert played behind at Leicester.

In part two of this brilliant Big Interview, we also hear about Jurgen Klinsmann’s revolution at Germany which a young Robert was the beneficiary of. Despite resistance to his methods, Jurgen was an innovator who cut through the stuffy old ways which had placed the German national team in a rut. Robert’s surprise debut was against a magnificent Brazil side, and he describes watching from the bench one of the greatest Italy performances ever, in the 2006 World Cup. The defeat put Germany in despair, but Jurgen laid the foundations for 2014 glory.

Thanks Robert.

Graham

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0:50.0	so maybe even strangers in the street. If you think that Robert H Hood is going to in this part improve your German as he did in the first part, then you're wrong. I'd like to say Gennow. I'd like to say gazun tide, but I can't because I don't know what either of them mean.
1:25.0	Nonetheless, Robert Hood in this part is going to talk about
1:30.0	maybe one of the great undervalued players of modern times in Goro Cante.
1:35.8	A serial winner, somebody who made Lester a title winner, Chelsea a title winner,
1:41.2	and who made France World Champion. How can it be that otherwise
1:46.0	astute judges are feeling to understand his vital importance? Remember that
1:51.3	Robert played behind Claude Mackelle and played behind in Golocante and he can make an educated comparison about the two of them.
1:59.0	I also thought that it was an under-told part of Robert's story that he was a German international at a time of
2:08.0	splitting of the atom might be too much but at a time when Germany certainly the the Manshaft and the DFP, began to shrug off their
2:16.2	old coat and don a new sports jacket. They hired Jorgin Klinzman, much against the wishes
2:22.4	of many of the German media, many of the old-fashioned guys in the DFB.
2:27.0	Along with him, came Joachim Lowe.
2:29.0	From 2004, 2005, they began to reinvent German international football which led to a
2:35.6	splurge of semi-final and final appearances and of course ultimate victory in the World
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