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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

- Franz Beckenbauer
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It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste.

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.