Joachim Löw was presented with a Bambi award on Thursday in the Integration category. The 56-year-old collected the prize on behalf of his team, and issued an appeal to the nation in his speech. DFB.de took note of the speech in full.
Thank you very much for this Bambi! It is a wonderful award, which I’m really, really happy to receive, and obviously to collect on behalf of my players and the whole team. I’m pleased that our national team can be considered an example of successful integration. We’ve got some fantastic players, but more importantly we’ve also got fantastic people with completely different backgrounds, religious beliefs and roots. Germany is what unites us, but we’re a multicultural group.
I hope that the very small example we set with our team might also work for the bigger picture - in our society as a whole. Accept your neighbours in just the same way that every player in our team accepts and respects his team-mates! As a person, as a friend, and as someone who might be different but it special in their own way. Let us all be a German team of integration! If we can all just do that little bit more, then this award that I was lucky enough to receive this evening would be an award for all of us. Thank you.
Joachim Löw was presented with a Bambi award on Thursday in the Integration category. The 56-year-old collected the prize on behalf of his team, and issued an appeal to the nation in his speech. DFB.de took note of the speech in full.
Thank you very much for this Bambi! It is a wonderful award, which I’m really, really happy to receive, and obviously to collect on behalf of my players and the whole team. I’m pleased that our national team can be considered an example of successful integration. We’ve got some fantastic players, but more importantly we’ve also got fantastic people with completely different backgrounds, religious beliefs and roots. Germany is what unites us, but we’re a multicultural group.
I hope that the very small example we set with our team might also work for the bigger picture - in our society as a whole. Accept your neighbours in just the same way that every player in our team accepts and respects his team-mates! As a person, as a friend, and as someone who might be different but it special in their own way. Let us all be a German team of integration! If we can all just do that little bit more, then this award that I was lucky enough to receive this evening would be an award for all of us. Thank you.
