Schlotterbeck-Klartext: We are world leaders!
Oct 12, 2025 9:12 pm | 1:33m
World Cup qualification: National player Nico Schlotterbeck speaks in an exclusive interview about the qualifying clash against Northern Ireland (LIVE from 8:15 p.m. on RTL and on RTL+).
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I have to say, I’m really looking forward to it because I think it’s going to be an incredibly good atmosphere. Northern Irish, they are crazy, positive, crazy. Above all, yes, I’m looking forward to the author’s national anthem and of course I’m looking forward to ours. But of course it’s going to be tight, it’s going to be more compact, it’s a little bit smaller than usual, just a little bit closer to the line. Yes, it gets more intense and. But we are well prepared. And I think we’ve all played in stadiums like that, even larger stadiums, where the atmosphere is extremely good. That’s why I hope it doesn’t hurt us and we play a good game.
What do you mean by positive? Crazy?
Yes, just crazy about football. I think that’s completely normal. If a throw-in is celebrated like a goal, then that’s positively crazy for me. And I’m really looking forward to it. I hope that we can get the fans to calm down a little bit as the game goes on, because of course that will probably be easier for us. But as I said, we are prepared and are really looking forward to the game.
Are we on top of the world?
For me, yes.
So even if we are only twelfth at the moment, you would say we are at the top of the world.
Yes, sure. I believe if. If we don’t believe in that, then we would be wrong in football. You saw it at the European Championships. We can keep up with any opponent. We had a few setbacks. I haven’t been there for a long time. I hope that things are looking up again now. And there are a lot of games until the World Cup, hopefully a lot of good games. And then we want to attack.
Do you have a tip?
The main thing is to win one to zero. Thank you very much.