😂 Receding hairlines and pig's ears?! Klopp and Tah's odd presser
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For about half an hour, Germany head coach Jürgen Klopp answered questions from the public at lunchtime today before taking charge of his second game tomorrow as the new coach of the German national team. On the second matchday of the Nations League, Germany face Greece tomorrow evening at 20:45 in Augsburg. Klopp will thus be making his home debut after the away game in the Netherlands — and he provided a proper laugh at the pre-match press conference.
His media duties had actually already been completed: Klopp had said goodbye to the journalists and left the room. He was replaced by Jonathan Tah. The defender took a seat to answer questions himself.
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Before he could take the first question, however, Klopp returned once more. He came back through the door, grabbed the microphone in front of his player and added: “If the lads don’t perform tomorrow, my receding hairline is coming back.”
No one in the room really knew what to make of that remark, but the national coach certainly got a laugh.
The mood seems to be good. Jonathan Tah stressed that as well after Jürgen Klopp had slipped away again. “You can really feel the very positive energy,” he said, referring to his new coach’s press conference crash. “That helps us as a team to get started with a good feeling.”
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Tah apparently knew exactly what the interruption and the receding hairline comment were about. The defender remained tight-lipped, however, when a journalist pressed him: “Unfortunately I’m not allowed to reveal what that’s about. You’ll have to find out for yourself.”
That naturally strongly suggests a lost bet. Just like the bizarre ending to the press conference, as Jonathan Tah asked out of nowhere before signing off: “Do they actually have pig’s ears in Munich? The pastry, I mean. Maybe I’ll have a few there.”
We’ll see whether these mysteries are ever cleared up. Either way, one thing is clear: the atmosphere in the new German national team under the already widely celebrated Jürgen Klopp seems to be excellent, and on a personal level things also seem to fit. .
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