Julian Nagelsmann, celebrated at RB Leipzig, fired at FC Bayern, has brought the German national team back on track. With white sausages and his tractor?
1. School sports in prison
Nagelsmann grew up in Landsberg am Lech. He knows the local correctional facility well: as a child, he did school sports there. Later, a famous person from FC Bayern was incarcerated in the prison – Uli Hoeneß, who was convicted of tax evasion.
2. Peaceful haven in nature
The mountains give Nagelsmann “a humble feeling: this sheer size, this incredible calm”he says. As a child, he often went to the Ochsenälpeleskopf in the Ammergau Alps, where his family had a hut: he spent a lot of time there with his father, who died when Nagelsmann was 20. “The most horrible experience of my life.”
3. Internship with Tuchel
Nagelsmann’s last coach as an active player was Thomas Tuchel: He coached him in 2008 in the second team of FC Augsburg. When Nagelsmann stopped playing football after a meniscus injury, he did a kind of trial internship with Tuchel. The two later met in the Champions League – as here in 2020 as coaches of Paris Saint-Germain (Tuchel) and RB Leipzig (Nagelsmann).
4. Bavarian customs
As a true Bavarian, he sometimes says to his players “Greetings” and “Pfiat di”. His love for white sausage is also “unbroken”says Nagelsmann. In Frankfurt, where he now works for the DFB, he has to get used to the “Grie Soß” – green sauce, the Frankfurt national dish.
5. No scruples
Nagelsmann is a fan of American TV series. His favorites: “Homeland” and “House of Cards”where the unscrupulous politician Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) moves into the White House with his equally unscrupulous wife Claire (Robin Wright).
6. Big Screamer
Nagelsmann is working with a speech therapist because of a thickening of the vocal cords. She also helps him to be able to shout louder. Here he is shouting in an exemplary manner at a match between FC Bayern Munich and 1. FC Cologne.
7. Cold hobby
Football is his great passion. Close behind is ice hockey. In his youth he played for EV Landsberg for three years. During his active football career he then played for SV Apfeldorf. “That was cool”Nagelsmann remembers: “Football games during the week and an ice hockey game on the weekend.”
8. Off to the fields
Like many players, Nagelsmann likes fast cars. As a brand ambassador for Jaguar, he drives a Jaguar F-Type convertible. But Nagelsmann can also do other things: he owns a tractor, which he likes to use to rumble across Bavarian meadows for a change.
9. Young face
His player pass from 2008 shows him as a 20-year-old. Nagelsmann hardly looks much older today – but he has taken off his silver earrings.
10. Coach’s wife
Thumbs up: Nagelsmann is supported by his girlfriend Lena Wurzenberger at the European Championships, here at the match against Hungary. His initials are emblazoned on the back of her jersey “JN”. Will it soon “LN”his second wife? Apparently the two are planning to build a house on the Bavarian Tegernsee. Wurzenberger, formerly a sports reporter at “Picture” in Munich, now works at BMW as “Spokesperson for the supplier network and sustainability”.
Source: Stern
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