Speak to former footballers and a remarkable number do not miss the big stage, and the pressures of a crunch match. Jürgen Klinsmann is not one of them. England against Germany in a knockout tie at Wembley Stadium? He would be there like a shot.
Klinsmann still looks young and lithe enough on the BBC, even at 56, to run out as he did at Euro ’96, as the captain who received the trophy from the Queen. He would love to be back in the thick of it all on Tuesday, when old rivals collide in the round of 16 of the European Championship.
“The new Wembley, it’s phenomenal, a temple,” he says. “There are a few temples around the world for football — Maracanã,
