Das Reboot Quotes

“The summer of 2006 was Germany’s Summer of Love, our generation’s Woodstock.”
― Raphael Honigstein, Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World

“The players’ council – Lahm, Schweinsteiger, Per Mertesacker and Klose – invited the entire DFB (German FA) delegation to ‘sweat for the trophy’ in the hotel’s ‘event sauna’, a vast space holding eighty people. Bierhoff: ‘The 2014 Sauna World Cup winner was there – no, I didn’t know there was such a thing, either – and he performed a show with music and strobe lights, waving towels around. We were in there with sixty men. Every player, every staff member, symbolically sweating together for this World Cup. That was an amazing idea by the players. It”
― Raphael Honigstein, Das Reboot: How German Football Reinvented Itself and Conquered the World