#''I'm starting to feel like it's too late to stop the afd now'' <- translation because I want to say:

[siryyeet]

Es fühlt sich langsam für mich so an, als wärs zu spät die AfD irgendwie zu stoppen :)))))

[jacksbutland]

(that really was only a small part of the interview, it was really nice. He's quite the dork, and he watches cheesy TV. About history "We can all easily say, looking back 'how could they let that happen in the 30s, it was all so obvious!' But I'd be curious to see what the history books in 2150 will say about the year 2017. Not trying to imply anything about AfD, really, I'm not!" He bought a really expensive watch, that he's always wanted, one like James Bond has in "Quantum of Solace", that

has all the time zones, or sth, and he loves it so much, he wants to show it to the interviewer at the next occasion:). Has he ever resumed diary-writing. "I never stopped?" "Oh? Because I'd read your journal finished with the WC final?" "Oh, that's just when the book was full. So I put it in a safe in a bank. But I got a new one that I write in now. But, you know, it's nothing great. It's just jot a few things down, after every game, in order to remember, just for me. I really enjoyed readingfrom back when I was 17 years old or something. You forget so quickly! But this way, when I'm fifty, I'll get it out and sit down with... André Hahn", and think of the good old times, aw. Later they're kind of chronicling his career, and he refers to the journal a few times. Like when his big dream was playing in Regionalliga (he put that in at 17), and then, when he made his first game for Leverkusen's amateurs he wrote, that's it, made it. Though come this far, there may be even more ahead...

It's also rather cute when he talks about his childhood/youth, when Leverkusen kicked him out as he wasn't good enough ("Back then they told me I was too small... well, I was 1,60m, I was quite small."), and that quite destroyed him, cause he'd gone to training five times a week and every weekend & suddenly it was all over &when he got to school, all his classmates had kind of paired off into couples & talked about things happening on the w-e, and he'd missed it all. But then he didn't want to give up football (and he very sweetly praises his parents, because they didn't understand, they didn't have anything to do with football at all, but they always supported him "and they spend so much time, driving me places and things!"), so he applied at Fortuna Düsseldorf, got accepted, & really learned self-assertion there because everything was much rougher there & a bit of a fight. But eventually he really enjoyed it & ended up captain, and then Max Eberl approached him for the first timeabout Gladbach, CK suddenly having found some recognition, &there were other offers, too, but he wanted to show the Leverkusen people that they'd been wrong about him, so he applied for their amateur team & got in. He became a regular starter so Bayer gave him a new contract, first lending him out to VfL Bochum for playing practise. "What about Max Eberl?" "What about him?" "Didn't he try again?" "No, I don't think he watches Leverkusen amateurs" Hahaha. "That was later, via the bridge of LeonGoretzka. He was great even back then, so there were always scouts at the games for him. I had a good run at that time, and I guess when my contract ended, Max was just like "oh that's the guy I tried to get once before" and went for it." Hehe. There were offers from Benfica Lissabon (and he'd have like to go, he was there in Portugal & everything), also Freiburg which he would have liked, but then Gladbach came in kind of at the last minute, & he didn't think twice about it. He names the Gladbach players of the time & how much he loved it:).

Ofc they talk about the national team. What was it like, getting the phone call from Löw "oh, that was that one game against Poland in May, when all the Bayern and BVB players couldn't come" for some CL reason or sth, so that was quite nice. The game was in Hamburg, and straight after speaking to Löw, he rang his mother, who was so excited and instantly went and booked a hotel there:). He thought it would be his only international game for Germany ever, so he gave it all he got and ran more than 14km in that one game. "Did you think you'd get called up for the WC?" "No, of course I didn't. The preliminary squad had been announced, I wasn't in it and I didn't know you could change that." "So did [Löw] tell you then and there?" "Well, we got back really late that night, we were stuck in traffic, so we only reached the team hotel by 1 o'clock or sth, and when we arrived he took me aside and said, he'd like to take me along to the trainingcamp." "So were you all, 'oh no, sorry, I've got a holiday booked?';)" "I said 'Läuft. Ich komm mit.'" HAHA. Really deadpan. I don't know how to do that justice in translation. Kind of, "well, ok then", like he was doing Löw a favour. It's also quite cute, he says on the plane he and the other "newbies" (Ginter, Durm etc.) kept looking at each other and beaming, they couldn't really believe how they had ended up there &he praises the big stars (Lahm etc.) for making them feel like they had always been part of the squad. Must have been a really great atmosphere, everybody was rooting for everybody. He didn't think he'd get playing time, "only maybe in the group stages, if a game had long been decided and there was nothing at stake", so when those games were over he'd resigned himself to not playing, and didn't mind at all, as he was having "the time of his life", sitting "front row". And everything about Brazil was great. Then the Algeria game, everything was extremely tense, he'd neverseen anything like it, the entire stadium, the whole crowd, everyone was tense. And then in extra time, Löw just went over to him and said "Warm up, I'll put you in", he didn't give him any instructions or anything, & he really appreciated that. 

Same with the game against France, and even the final. He says that Sami had pulled a muscle in training & he (Chris) got really nervous, so after the final training unit he asked him how he was and SK said he was fine, he could play, and CK was reallyrelieved & all "Yesss, front row for the WC final" & everything went as planned, normal warm-up & 10min before the game, he was kicking the ball around with Götze* & Schürrle when [Löw] came over to him & said "Sami can't play, you're starting", no tactical instructions again, which he took as a sign of trust (*"He also refrained from telling me to show the world I was better than Messi" hahaha). Interviewer "and you played really, really well, do you ever wonder, what if, what if the clash hadn't happened?" No, not really, because "That day was so perfect, there's nothing to improve about it at all!" btw - the whole world cup talk was prefaced with the reporter asking if he was tired of the topic, and he replied, well, of course he doesn't mind talking about it, but be warned: there's nothing new, it's all been talked about, so no scoop there...hehe. 

Ofc the question to the ref, which he *doesn't remember*, duh (but he wonders what language he asked him in, cause he doesn't speakItalian and Rizzoli doesn't speak German and "my English is really bad so if I could put that together in that state I was in then... well, well done me!":) He met Rizzoli again later when Gladbach played Celtic in CL and he came up to him and shook his hand and they shared a moment and laughed together:). There's a lot more, but I'm very, very worried I'm boring you to death (do tell me), so... there. :)

(i love getting info about chris and other gladbach players ur basically my personal german translator lmfao)

it’s kinda cool that he keeps a diary, and consistently as well cos i just forget everything that ever happens to me lmfao but it’d come in super handy if/when he writes that autobiography lmfao but yeah it’s nice to be able to go back and look at memories and thoughts from certain points in ur life

it’s sad that leverkusen didn’t really value him much as a player even when he played for the first team but also lucky cos we got him haha

dam i really wanna know what language he talked to the ref in now lmfao it never really occured to me until now lol but it’s nice that he can laugh and joke about it now i mean ... getting a concussion and asking whether he was actually playing in the final is one way of bonding with refs i guess