English football’s favourite German sits at his kitchen table in California and considers the passing of time. It is 32 years since Jurgen Klinsmann held the World Cup in his hands and almost as long since that brief and wonderful season spent at Tottenham in our Premier League.
We are talking about Germany’s latest superstar in the making Jamal Musiala, the 19-year-old midfielder who heads into the tournament in Qatar in the form of his life. It feels appropriate to ask whether Klinsmann can remember what it was like to feel the fearlessness of youth.