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okay fellow miserablers
Lahm has updated his Facebook (as he does once in a blue moon) and has mentioned this .pdf
Which naturally being in German means nothing whatsoever to me.
Anyone be willing to provide a translation?
upload is here from his official website
Lahm has updated his Facebook (as he does once in a blue moon) and has mentioned this .pdf
Which naturally being in German means nothing whatsoever to me.
Anyone be willing to provide a translation?
upload is here from his official website
And here is 2/2!
So I decided in fall of 2013, to end my career in the national team after the world cup in Brazil, and to concentrate only on my leadership role as captain for FC Bayern. Of course it is a gift of fate that we now have won the title, matching to my resignation. You should stop when it is at its best, one always says. But I would have resigned too, if we would have gone home without this victory. Sometimes it may seem as if I had my life planned down to the smallest detail, everything just calculation. That sounds as if I were only assessed rationally. That's not true. Maybe people often see only what they want to see. What I, however, has always had, was a certain sense of reality. This was inevitable to develop. Without the ability of self-assessment I likely would have not established myself in professional football. Since the beginning of my career, I had to find my own role. There was no role model on which I could get my bearings. Because playing as a defender with my body height was rather the exception. I always had to think about how I could bring in my qualities, had to drive myself over and over again, had to put myself in the scene by clever actions, to come out on top.
The search for my own role meant that I worked a lot with the game and talking to my coaches about developments. I always lived a generation in front of me, ahead of time, and so I maybe grew up a bit faster. I took pleasure to bring in myself. National coach Joachim Löw has always been one of the key interlocutors for me. Maybe now is the right time to dispel the rumor that I had preferred to play in midfield than in defense at the World Cup in Brazil. For me, it played no role, at what position I supported my team. In such a tournament it is only essential that all mosaic tiles fit together. Of course I, as a captain, need to have the possibility to contribute my opinion. That was in the last years in the national team always the case. However, it is not about to enforcing anything by hook or by crook. To be captain is a constant interplay between bring and take back. In Brazil I had at any time the feeling of being able to express my views. I even think these last few weeks have been the highlight of the Cooperation between Jogi Löw and me. I still feel fit and productive. But it is time to bring new structures in my life and in the national team. Now the next generation is coming into the responsibility, the boys are partially eight, nine years younger than me and have to find their own leaders in their group, whom they respect and whose support they develop further. This process is quite normal.
Football not only involves a constant up and down of emotions. The phase in which you can play at the highest level is short, the intensity continues to increase. It is not easy to go. But I am proud of this decision. I have consciously chosen this path. Maybe I would have been able to hold my level until the European championship, but I'm glad to have freed myself and now to have self-determination over my career end in the national team.
If you have managed to develop respect for the job, then the resignation is now the logical consequence. I want my career to end at Bayern
and until then turn all my focus of my job in the club, because I know that I cannot strain this gift forever.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR TRANSLATING
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When I heard about his resignation, I did not understand it. But now, after reading some of his statements, I am glad that he found the right time to leave. It's way better than watching him struggeling and then being forced to go.
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