Kahn: "My instinct says to me that we will be champions"

The most outstanding arquero of the World-wide one respects to Brazil, the rival of next Sunday in the end; it recognizes the capacity of the verdeamarelos soccer players, although it knows that Germany conforms a true homogenous and compact equipment

SEUL, Korea South del. - The same security, an identical conviction which shows with the diver and the put gloves grant them outside the field. It is very difficult to imagine a situation that does that Oliver Kahn alters in something his calm one and plumbed form to conduct themselves and to speak. Forty and five minutes after the Korean noon, the arquero and figure of Germany Hill seated to the table of the Mugungwha room of the immense and luxurious Seoul Sheraton Walker Hotel, with aspect of just raised. He dispatched as if nothing three mineral water glasses while of translator and the one in charge press selected took care of the formality of the presentation and began to respond more than one hundred present journalists without never altering the expression of his face.

And Kahn, the giant of the German arc, demonstrated immediately that he is not man to be satisfied to simple bets. When was consulted it on what it glimpsed for next Sunday in Yokohama, I do not doubt ': "My instinct says to me that we will be the world-wide champions. What is what it makes me feel asi '? It would not really know to explain it. I know that in fact the possibilities are of the fifty percent for each one, but that is what it says my intuition to me ".

One scored to him that opposite it is Brazil, the colossus that all fear, the owner of four world-wide titles, a star equipment… "King Kahn" does not worry itself. "Probably, Brazil is the best equipment of the contest in terms of individualities; in all the positions it has exceptional players. She is the best rival than to one it can touch to him. But that does not mean necessarily that they are better like equipment or than cannot be won to them. The equipment that has the equipped players more not always is the one that wins. If the best equipment always remained with the Glass of the World, Brazil must have gained fourteen world-wide ones, not only four.

Of which neither he nor no other of the protagonists of the decisive duel can be become lost in thought is of their meaning. "we cannot say that he is a classic one, because we never faced before, but of which it is a great end, is no doubt. He is something extraordinary, a party that to one appears one to him or at the most twice in its race. And there is margin no to disappoint, because there is a country behind one ".

- What must make to win to Brazil?

- a thing is safe: we will not win to him to Brazil if each one of us does not render to the one hundred percent. Less than that he will be insufficient. Next Sunday, each one of us will have to play the party of its life. In which it does to the way to play, we must obtain that the party is developed according to our rate.

The reference to the great Brazilian names either does not seem to cause preoccupation to him. The captain of the Germanic equipment remembered that he also brings parchments very well to oppose Ronaldo to them, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho… "They are exceptional players. I have and we have a great respect by them, but for me, like arquero, it does not mean anything in special facing them, because as much in the selection as in Bayern Munich already I had ahead often the best forwards of the world. They must demonstrate that they can to defeat to me ".

Decisive so that the equipment followed ahead more of once throughout the World-wide one, Kahn is convinced that Germany must maintain the line. "we cannot change too many things to two or three days of the end. But it will be necessary to be kind to a pile of details. A end individually means an enormous pressure for all the equipment and each player. And often the small details decide if the luck will be good or bad. Sometimes an equipment neutralizes to the other, as it happened in the end of the 94, and in that case they are small things those that decide everything ".

When they arrived at East, to the Germans they did not accompany the best auguries. To his country it dismissed a mainly indifferent climate and little esperanzado. Kahn knows that the panorama changed. "Here, so far, we do not have the sensation of first hand on which it is lived there, but were sailing by Internet and we were made an impression by the fantastic mood that people live there at this moment".

The track that is leaving Germany in the Glass of the World does not have to do with a shining game, indeed. The one of the team of Rudi Völler happens through the discipline, the attachment to a simple style and, specially, the defensive effectiveness. Kahn knows that it is a fundamental piece in that structure, but insists on emphasizing that the merit is of all the equipment. "I am proud of which my name is mentioned in public in that sense, but is not my solitary effort what it has taken to Germany to the end. Of which it happens in the party against the Brazilians it will depend much on how we defend ourselves, but that is bound to the work of all the equipment, not only of the defenders. The defensive work begins by the forwards. I make only one small contribution in all this ".