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re: The German Youth Revolution
Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:59 pm to inelishaitrust
Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:59 pm to inelishaitrust
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I'll never understand why people insist on crediting and blaming leaders when bigger and more complex economic and demographic engines at play. Clinton didn't create the dot com boom, W didn't crash the housing market, and Obama didn't take our jerbs. People like to find correlation and causation in the most tenuous of connections.
This is so apples to oranges.
JK basically called out the Bund after 2006 and said if we dont fix this the national team we be a disaster for a generation. He forced his way into a lot of things to fix it and was basically one of the reasons he left the national team b/c the Bund felt like he over stepped his boundaries. But after it was said and done he was right and his assistant kept the vision going.
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Posted on 7/13/14 at 8:05 pm to StraightCashHomey21
To be fair, the German youth revolution started a long time before Klinsmann. The DFB started the plan after 2000, with their poor showing at the 98 WC and Euro 2000. Klinsmann was a part of that revolution, but he wasn't the one who started it. Uli Hesse Lichtenberger has an article on it called "On Reaping the Rewards of a Winning Mentality." I can't find it anymore, but it basically outlines the whole process, from shame at Euro 2000 to the success of the 2009 U-21 European Championship. 6 players from that U-21 squad made this team.
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