At the beginning he quoted Pelé. Thomas Tuchel‘s inaugural press conference at Wembley Stadium had barely begun when he said he had just read a quote from the Brazilian in the building: “It said,” said Tuchel, “Wembley is the heart, the capital and the cathedral of football . And he’s completely right.” Tuchel knows what the English want to hear. His job is also to make them understand that he understands how special the job of an England coach is. Especially when he, a German, is something like the father of the motherland of football.
