It is rare for Mario Götze (32) to speak publicly in detail about himself and the football business. But now the 2014 World Cup hero is talking about problems in his career, among other things.
The result: An open, but also thoughtful idol – who tells, among other things, about a horror moment!
“What I will never forget: (…) How one day 50, 60 hooligans came to our training just to insult me. I was 20 at the time. I had chosen Bayern for rational reasons,” Götze revealed to “Zeit” about the events when he was still a Dortmund star in 2013. He added: “It was only with a lot of distance that I was able to understand the reactions as appreciation.”
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During this time, the midfielder moved between extremes: first loved in Dortmund, then despised, never really settled in Munich. In between, he was a 2014 World Cup hero.
Looking back, Götze says of his time at Bayern (2013-2016): “Perhaps I would have hoped for a little more human guidance, because with all the expectations placed on me, I would have needed this one more facet in my life situation.”
Götze was able to cope with the pressure at the time, from outside, but also with his own expectations. The 32-year-old explains: “If I didn’t play two games from the start, it was the end of the world for me.” After sitting on the bench, the right-footer drove home and went “jogging for two hours.”
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According to Götze, his coach at the time, Pep Guardiola (53), also had to struggle: “He was extremely tense. You noticed a clear difference in his behaviour depending on whether we were facing a Bundesliga or Champions League match. They were two different people.”
The fact that Götze now blocks out everything from the outside is mainly due to the complicated birth of his son Rome (4) in 2020. The Eintracht star: “My contract in Dortmund had just expired, Covid had broken out, and for the first time in my life I was without a club for three months. (…) Then my son was born far too early, he was in intensive care for three weeks. After that I had a completely new perspective: nothing is more important than my family being healthy.”
2024-06-07 10:40:11
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