You won the title with Kaiserslautern in 1998. Was that one of the biggest shocks in Bundesliga history?
It was certainly a positive shock. It was a fantastic achievement that no team had managed before - winning the league in the first season after being promoted to the Bundesliga. The record will stay for a long, long time. After we beat Bayern Munich in the first game of the season, we said, “We have something here.” Our manager, Otto Rehhagel, did a similar job to what Jurgen Klopp has recently done at Liverpool - getting people around the club and city thinking they were capable of something amazing. Otto used to say, “Go home, put Teletext on, leave it on the league table, then fall asleep happy.” Those little things gave us all belief.
TEAMS Chemnitzer Kaiserslautern Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Chelsea Germany