2018, the hardest year of your career?
I wouldn’t say so. In a way it was a beautiful year because I am completely healthy again. I can make all of this, nothing hurts more. This is a pleasant end of a time, Yes but everything was a bit on the Fag.
you mean: your career? It means, in the case of a further fracture of the Pastern, it would be over.
So what can you say, Yes, never exactly, but a further relapse before the world Cup would have been able to finish the whole thing maybe. That is why I say Yes: It was sporty, certainly not a great year, and I appreciate it very much that I’m still here and in good shape.
How would you describe your state of fitness at the end of this difficult year?
Very well. The Nation has nothing to Worry about.
Some, however, are still Worried when you see that Fortuna Düsseldorf shoot in Munich, three times on target and all three shots are in there.
yeah, Yeah, I know what your question is: all these statistics, saying that I think less shots than before the injury.
And?
For me is important how I see things, no one else. And when I look at a few of these situations individually, I come to the clear rating: It’s all right. The critics have always only single gates in front of eyes, no one talks about how many balls I walk, for example, or disarm before it can even be dangerous. But what is a course in statistics.
Hazardous the conclusion of the Sweden: New parries to the world Cup in Russia. Video: SRF
Sometimes one has indeed the impression: at Least this new unique feature is gone, this Aura, this Impregnable.
But what happened? What are we talking about?
Maybe people just miss that in the New holds, once again, a Unsustainable.
I assume that the people will see it again soon. It was in this preliminary round, just the classic goalkeeper moments for me. I’m not one of the cross in the air, the legs attracts the Ball over the bar guides. I’m quite self-aware: I hold on to those balls better.
There are experts who say that they have changed after the injury to your style and would be a defensive play.
This is nonsense, I’m the same side of the end of the goalkeeper, who I always was. It is rather the other way: The other Teams do not know more, because the New is back in the gate, so you are playing the balls long to the centre, because of the New comes out and intercepts. Therefore, there is no more at the Moment, as is often the Situation that I need to get out.
trust in violation of the phases of your feeling, or objective values are important to you?
Just in time after the injury, the results of the jump tests have me particularly interested, but I’m also, in principle, to such values. This is my claim: I want to be the Best in all of the.
This means that you are applying again this year for the title of world goalkeeper.
at The Moment there are a lot of good guys out there, Thibaut Courtois, David de Gea, Hugo Lloris, the French champion, in this League I’ll be in the new year, one of the Oldest. But I want to show them that I can do it, too.
we Look back in 2018: What is the four-time world goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, as in the first world Cup-group game suddenly shot to the Mexicans Lozano free reappeared in front of him and score the winning goal?
As a prelude to the game, I could not imagine before, actually: So no heart, no will power, I’ve experienced a German national team in a tournament. And this goal from Lozano a little bit of sense: Everywhere has been lacking a bit, in the two fight, in the walkways, in the time of the vote.
How to intervene because as a Captain?
We have had many conversations, and as for will and setting, was it then even better. But for myself, it was not actually so easy to control the processes because I was gone for so long. You get currents and developments from a distance, not so good, and must always make themselves an image. And some of the new players I didn’t know before the training camp is also not so good.
the team to be a Problem in the cabin?
It was with safety, not that there was in the Team of the groups or that the could not with the other. We have understood us well, but this one hundred percent Burn for the great common cause was somehow not as pronounced as four years previously.
Germany coach Joachim Loew has said that he is very disappointed by Mesut Özil. You have played with him in the Schalke youth together. They are also disappointed in him?
I’ve known Mesut for a long, he is actually a helpful, good person and was always a good friend to all. Therefore, I think it’s especially a pity, as this is now so far apart.
is But right, however, that the case of Ozil/Gundogan/Erdogan has been discussed in the team is controversial, and the climate has also impacted?
It has been in the Team talks to the topic, I myself have spoken to the Erdogan-photo-with Mesut.
What did you have for an impression?
I had after my conversations with him the impression that he wants to give everything for the team, but you had to hear this out for a bit. If he would have said it more clearly, it would have been nice of course.
Meanwhile, Joachim Löw started with a break, you self-excluded but pointedly, though, with Marc-André ter another tip Stegen goalkeeper. Löw has issued a kind of regular place guarantee up to the next tournament, the European Championships in 2020. A goalkeeper needs this security?
I’m certainly important for the team, but I’m an athlete and know that everything always starts at zero. I don’t want to have paid.
How is your relationship with Marc is because-André ter Stegen?
Our relationship is normal. I have assured him in a training camp in South Tyrol, too, that there is nothing discussed behind his back with the trainers that my use of WM is thus in no way from the outset. And after we have left against South Korea, I have thanked me on the way to the Bus with him for his Fairness.
“I’m not at all tired, I still feel very hungry.”
Also in the case of Bavaria is much talk of the “break”. At the Association of the verkorksteWM has accelerated these efforts. Have you given any thought to the tournament once about whether you should make the way for others?
no, never. What was said of our Generation after the tournament, all so I can’t point out to me at all. I’m not at all tired, I still feel very hungry, and I still need to play in the national team and to win with her title.
What needs to be done to the German team from their point of view, to find after the last year of more acceptance among the people?
We have already embarked on some of the ways that I find completely true. We back the Fans again, we go to school classes, and hospitals. For something the team needs to stand back.
And sporty?
We have no Messi and no Ronaldo, but we have not had in 2014. We need to “be the team” – and we know exactly that a year as of 2018, may not happen again. We have the claim to qualify ahead of the Netherlands, as a group, the first for the EM. People should again see a national team that is Fun and happy in the stadium.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 03.01.2019, 22:11 PM
