If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge.

The realization that you're not always standing down there on the field merely to win, to be successful, was very liberating. One can be successful by helping the team, the other players. All of a sudden I felt the kind of empathy for people that I hadn't felt before.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.