Julian Nagelsmann (36) was candid in an interview with ‘Spiegel’ where he told how he experienced the early death of his father, who was a secret agent and committed suicide when the current German coach was 20 years old. “All that was difficult and it marked me,” said the former Bayern Munich coach.
“I often think about that day. I suddenly had to manage the family and make difficult decisions, to relieve my mother as well.” “At that time I was teaching a course in Oberhaching, near Munich. Suddenly the course director told me to please go outside and told me that my father had committed suicide.”
Nagelsmann respects his father’s decision: “He didn’t leave a suicide note, no explanation. But the way he took his life made it clear to me that his decision was completely clear to him. Everything of it being fatal to the family, “But it helped me understand that he really wanted to die and it wasn’t a cry for help or a sign. I think I have to respect that decision.”
His father, who worked for the Federal Intelligence Service, “had to make decisions over and over again at work knowing that the whole plan could go wrong. He wasn’t allowed to talk about his work and that’s why “He often said that everything was too much for him. In his work it is not possible to share concerns. In the end, it caused him a lot of stress.”
Nagelsmann, explaining that his father did not want him to become a coach (“he wanted me to study business”), that he taught him one important thing before he died: making decisions. “It really gave me the courage to make decisions. The worst thing in life is when you don’t make them.”
Source: La Verdad
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