Per Mertesacker Interview – Richtiger Umgang mit Schwächen
at some point, the bubble bursts and you play in the third fourth division or must do something completely different or don’t play football more going on just said that you I read that ten percent have always taken your income to have a team around get this train board you need that is right yes that is quite important so, of course, through the by the club by the national team many experiences masseurs physioswiss can collect
supports may experience where I then of course I always asked the question how much do you want to line up set up professionally not only that to have in your job title, so to speak professional footballer how much do you want yourself on a level and have exactly what you clearly need the club for you offers and I always have a lot like masseurs physiology again and again We also used the club but when i’m to england again put me on a completely different level and also in the year really mine I took my own people with me nutritionally physical therapists to a new level and it I just got ten percent really six-figure sums because I also earned extremely well and I would do that again and again because otherwise I wouldn’t sit here because I had a four-year contract then two years again by two years extended by playing him could because in the there was no injury because I had everything did that because of that I also did afterwards this contract in the i am now getting too because i play as long as possible so these are all effects the more you are in you invest the more comes back back out so that’s very extreme I would really recommend it to everyone to care that you are really constantly tries a new one learn to set level as well as to feel because I also noticed me must I have to then try nutritionally I I have to take two three four weeks get treated by one person doing that’s good for me, that’s for me to reflect again and again nutritionally, meat is for me good is good for me is vegan for me good because everyone is different everyone has to be for himself find out what is good but fall does not come with me I like it once and then sew that doesn’t bring me anything, it’s fine again therefore possible to watch two three weeks but is not meat look how you feel you still feel knee hurts very simple things I then tried to implement there and it has 345 6 times seven times paid financially as well as for me personally that I now have a job if i’m without this team behind me not paused that’s why I’m there very very happy this decision to have met back then talk about the most difficult moment and one of the most difficult moments quarterfinals world championship Löw takes you out of the line-up that was as bad as I thought it was introduce and how are you with it handled yes, then I am in contact on the evening before he called me has hansi flick then we have talked and then said that he was me will not line up tomorrow then what is going on in front of you so I don’t have a big discussion now started because I because I already knew that this would not work even though the 41 you played great too, i saw every game was also not developed at all that was okay but a trainer has to make this partner decision too and i met in 2012 in poland and the Ukraine but not the whole tournament played well I was one of those before hurt a bit there but for the first time experienced like this is as a kind of complementary player by sanctioning I have none only minute before I had really permanently played from first time also learned how do you feel in a team where you are at the back still has to accelerate anyway Are there things that have to be maintained so that was the second so to speak
so to speak, to get out been taken so i already had a bit experience with this situation but of course in the quarterfinals against France was difficult what then happened to me so I could die do not sleep all night until next I couldn’t get a second slept because I see myself all the time asked the same question why I why not somehow different and it it was a very, very difficult night im an energy label was at the bottom on next day and the next day was a very hot day noon sun we have at 1 o’clock I think played completely completely very bad I did it in my head at some point to toggle to say this is no matter now it’s not about me it will work at some point you say it’s not about me it’s about for the German national team and the world championship we have one very big opportunity because we have a everyone respected great team each other I can’t do that now pretend I am any worth of just look at yourself I have to do everything hit this game and even if I only sit in front of the bench I was the first to be on the line cool with water I was the first to call me was the first to say yes from too Ford form game with the team was there and tried to help my central defender colleague really tips to give advice then you have to switch over and say I I would be the first at everything how I can support the team that’s easy even if you have mindset speaks so that’s something for me I also do the championship there me because that’s champions mindset in most difficult moment possible via the things to stand and everything for the team to give of course my energy level was soul down that of course okay that too noticed a bit but said that is now more than he is played it wasn’t that easy and I was really there for two days really attracted also a bit finally sick in bed and really cut everything in and then of course the next game was in Brazil where am I if you think as a central defender you don’t play anymore you are almost out because then you won’t either more substituted what then of course it happens half-time in the semifinals was allowed to play again in the final minute that he comes back that comes then back again because it depends how you can be completely with these bypassing a difficult moment that wasn’t easy the night was not easy but at some point it has to click with the that you say now it’s good now i’m coming out of my room out and now I go full throttle fully positive and supported where I can that was that weren’t easy moments but so instructive because I learned a lot about myself and in the end effect the better you deal with it ever talented there going with this momentum the more champion you have in you because the behaviors of a champion research is not there if you first do that the potro holds but in these all moments before this comes this one champions mindset out and if you do that are you on the extremely good path but you have talent again from talent spoke to deal with it so I imagine that to be really difficult but says well that the semi-finals back then in the twat half time yes and then in the finale he changes you to the last minute what was that for many yes actually there were already three four other players already had to be substituted in in advance I think there was already one or others really on the sidelines and with the third substitution was then so to speak I wouldn’t even be there arrived but in the end then have 1 0 led and then needed special man a guy anyway come in but my last header brings out what then also directly happened so it was really exciting but there are really these again team really deserved it because The 23 players plus may really all one goal was hot and the egos goods were really packed to the side the respect for each other was great and we have really developed something a mentality that will really help us later helped and then you come too another minute and again has you have this special feeling afterwards but hardly any memories because you of course then this one this team then celebrates you are quickly back on the way back home these moments pass so quickly you would like to wish that again back but it was just a team performance of front up to with absolutely very whole many difficult moments that was somehow solved together and that maybe the decisive thing was this this team unity or what was what will say why have you become world champion is great played but not always great we want to play against algeria briefly from dropping out then there was also this this this weird interview from me then with the performance but you have such a mentality we don’t let ourselves be played like how they are getting on now and that’s what matters doesn’t come to me with we we played there we did we play here it doesn’t matter us we go also this goal to that it is written that we become world champion there has been such a mentality developed but I also have to say coaching teams may like you the team really brought in and with all possible decisions what is the best for the team where we are accommodated how are we accommodated how do we bring people all together that was really it that was teamwork from the beginning to everyone has a lot against him adversity also voted for the best to get the team out that was that started with oliver bierhoff at fund the best quarter ever had picked out because he wanted us he didn’t just want to merge 15 hotel where everyone has their own room had and everyone digs in he wanted one open campus on with with with four houses for the whole team where we ourselves where we live with ourselves quasi fill this this this Herbergers was from that moment of At the beginning this team has the accepted and saw how much everyone really fights for this goal and that welded together that welded together preparation can i remember that we really have trained hard extremely hard as even then together many many Hold moments where there are doubts yes one doubts very clearly on this path that doubts again and again we are good enough of the individual experts probably not we need the team closedness that was for us from the beginning clearly and then really also when you was not in the team if this disappointment for the first time come as the boy to the first team eleven can now play the the other twelve are of course disappointed how do they deal with these disappointments the next day is literally on fire football pitch and everyone gives gas and wants to convince the trainer that he maybe his decision after all sometimes want to change these are just small things that come together and the have been extremely good for me from the start fallen so you could write a book out of it immediately do what she says is I like it insanely good so let’s go again one step back than you saw you have weaknesses so for me weak because at speed with you from weakness to I find speaking crazy because I can imagine what happens if I would try to run with you but you said this is a weaknesses of you I have such weaknesses in my life gave me dyslexic i am and Back then, teacher said to me, look there there is no talent signal cook on what you especially can do you did you did you saw maybe i’m not the fastest and actually the fastest but I have strengths and do you have that Position play agreed with you and the game opening if I do that understand correctly how did it come about that you had this my shift because normal is yes that they say they are weak weakness weakness yes it is normal that you out orders is not hip stiffness will be everything from many people always like this perceived differently many then try to stop directly judge and say yes, stiffly, slowly doesn’t make it it’s just so easy, very casual therefore said things to me completely I didn’t like it, I showed that I with my abilities a lot can reach back then I say I prefer to swim but I mean my wife also said let’s get here sprint over 20 meters you’re like that slowly yes then she first noticed that there is a difference between between slow and some run well so there there would be this that is always is sometimes quite pleasing just have noticed that with my skills overview positional play header strength I can always find my own husband I got incredibly far and I have my style of play from the fourth division one in the reserve team up to first division not changed much either of course the pace grows and from the we expected more anyway I my strengths really always like this extremely well brought in that people said yes I let play because at I trust that the constant repeated these performances and and if you are constantly 80 it delivers percent of its top performance is top level that is absolute top level and many think I have to be 100 percent every 100 100 100 100 does not work constant when I’m at 80 percent of my full performance color proper to the elite belongs to the through to the top level and that’s what I usually do kept constant solid performance to be delivered without making big mistakes that was mine style of play and I don’t have that whether I am in my youth in the a youth in the u23 or the pros played or national team my skills were always wanted and so I could also give the trainers really convince and say you have my trust and that’s why I’m there I stayed tough, of course I tried one or the other speed a bit too Of course I improve too to prepare myself again and again to be treated every morning after training to treat the yoga too stretch that naturally certain things also over and over again try preventively to prevent was my preparation anyway that has my self-confidence always anyway let it jump up again because these preparation that I keep doing me again and again to the top performance always back to skillsbrought therefore of course my strengths I pushed something like that from the front also in duels with other players of course I always have a little Left space because I knew I was too it can be tight that I also get the income lose and that the me so to speak then it works but I have always put me in a position where I knew there was a long ball coming I have I always win two meters the duel i only go into duels where I know when I have to go down I win the 2 you have to of course then you have to make decisions meet where your strengths naturally brings in the best possible and I have that that was also a very, very great talent from me my strengths are possible there to be used where it is needed most how do you do that in the academy what do you say to the young people So the topic is what I do create perspective always perspective to preach in which in which great preferred really are these young players really being able to train on top places to be trained by top trainers to be treated from talk vision but also again and again to give perspective what is really important in life what do i want namely reach of course there is a challenge in life when but I always only say you are the one best player you are the best player are the best player then he has no chance in life because then we prepare so to speak at some point possible to fail we have to teach the young ones too that you also sit on the bench sometimes you have to teach people that they are also injured sometimes you have to say you have to be honest and be sincerely authentic and real bring in perspective because academy Unfortunately, it is not to live football it is difficult because really really im to stay alive the more you live remains with all these possibilities social media always only the best places best training conditions best car best outfit contract yellow taxis all what then is it difficult to say to stand still in life because at some point the bubble bursts and plays in the third fourth division or must do something completely different or don’t play football more that happens only one percent makes it from 9 to sometime professional area that is reality and this is my perspective where I look every day i have to remember that is it important to these boys people to parents all who care about it around are perspective and reality too give are these the life skills of which you Do you speak my dear life skills but only confirm victory defeat like in sport disappointment joy prepare for school plan a +++ my education my education Earn academic achievement possible earn things in school as well a place to behave sensibly respect discipline humility that are things that we are really whole here write up what manni looks like here I have this little circle that if you see respect discipline kumite that are the things these are the ones so to speak the standards we use here every day really trying to get across this is not easy because we naturally himself also in this bubble we have to keep repeating remember what is important in life at to be really a great person the attempt to make the difference to positively differentiate from man to man really also that bring 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