"Hey long, how does it look like? Tomorrow already something?" - Olympia

Mr. Schulz, you still have your selfie with Carl Lewis?

No, I do not have that. It was also less a selfie, I put myself and somebody has photographed. But these devotional collector's egg, that's not my thing. I could not even say exactly where my medal is. But I know that I have her somewhere, but rather in a box.

What was the contact with other athletes during Olympia 1988?

Unfortunately we have been the last week in the Olympic village. I still know how we drove through the bus through the country at that time, past the rice fields - that was a real adventure. In the Olympic village, one met usually before the cafeteria, since we have exchanged our jackets and shirts with foreign athletes. We also met Steffi Graf, for example.

You lived in a kind of block block with the German athletes.

Yes, and that was sometimes not unproblematic. Some were just finished and have celebrated their final competition in the evening loud and with alcohol, and others wanted to fight their medal the next day. Then there was the one or the other bucket of water from the third floor on the celebration down. We had a lot of contact with the fencers, with Zita Funkenhauser or Anja Fichtel, who knew Jürgen Klinsmann from the Baden-Württemberg homeland. Or also with the hockey players.

What else can you remember from the Olympic village?

There was still the "East-West Conflict", I think the GDR athletes were not allowed to do so correctly with us. In general, I always had the feeling that the time is resting. It was somehow peaceful - there was only Olympia. You do not feel like this today. At that time you could barely talk to home, the snakes on the telephone booths were endless, it cost a pigemoos and did not always went. In three weeks I have telephoned three, four times home. No one can imagine that today.

Actually, they could not have been there.

Once upon a time I was with a test match, but it was clear to me that I would not stand in the squad. That's how it came. The nomination advertisement was on my birthday, at the party my guests have comforted me. I am said of fun: 'Do not worry, I'm still there anyway.'

I thought: I will not play there. I first bought a travel guide of South Korea at the airport.

Michael Schulz

You should keep right.

Yes, it rang the phone on Saturday evening after the last Bundesliga playing day before Olympia. Hannes Löhr said: 'Hey long, how does it look like? Tomorrow already something? ' I said: not really. And hole: 'Then come to Frankfurt tomorrow, we're flying, you're there.' On the last matchday several players were injured. But I thought: I will not play there. I first bought a travel guide of South Korea at the airport.

Höhr had other plans with them. Already at 3: 0 against China, three days of arrival, they stood in the starting element.

Loop came after the first workout and said 'hear a long time to play tomorrow?' I said, 'Yes, why not?'

Can you still remember the games?

No, I was so in the tunnel. Against Tunisia, I told me told me, I did a goal and a template, but I can not remember myself.

"Mister Olympia" in use: Michael Schulz in the semi-final against Brazil. Imago / Horstmüller

After 4: 1 against Tunisia followed a 1: 2 against Sweden, then a 4-0 against Zambia. In the semifinals there was the bitter 2: 3 defeat in penalty shooting against Brazil.

I can remember that! We have led, get the stupid balancing and then get a penalty for us just before the end. Wolfgang Funkel was the safest penalty protector ever, he felt that he turned everyone, and if I remember quite, always in the same corner. Only against Brazil he has changed her. I still know that we spoke again. After the shot elple we had concrete in the thighs.

It remained the game around Bronze against Italy.

We were surprisingly good. This has also awarded the team that the semi-final has not broken the neck. We told us: We definitely want a medal! That has in too many of us penetration. And I felt that the Italians did not want it that way. We then doodled them relatively easily with 3: 0. They got us pretty painted, they have come up with everything. But that was quite a playing way that lit me.

A heartfelt person.

Schulz about Hannes Löhr

How much share had Lohr at success?

That was already an extraordinary type and super popular. He gave us the long leash, he trusted us and we repaid it. This has also awarded this team - that we still did not take the ass. Hole was authentic, there were no vanities and quarrels under him, and that with such a collapsed pile. A heartfelt person.

What is the contact with the other bronze medaille?

There is always there again. With Christian Schreier, I have regular contact, also with Frank Mill now and then. In general, you always feel a certain connection when you hit one of that time.

Stefan Kuntz had big problems to get an Olympic border. What do you think about it?

If that had said in 1988, I would have said: You do not all have them! But Olympia had another importance, today Olympia is quite sad. There's only "higher, faster, further" and coal, coal, coal. This Olympic feeling of then, that does not exist today. That's why I am also understanding, especially for young players who have canceled, also because of today's load and Corona. Nobody knows how that affects. Incidentally, when I came from Olympia, I went around on the field as an idiot. I was also completely in the ass because of the hype, also psychic.

"Who is in God's name Baggio?"

Nevertheless, Olympia was a springboard for her, they were one of the outstanding actors and were even referred to as "Mister Olympia". They were not even long in the professional pupil.

Actually, I did not want to get it, I liked my job as a police officer. I am always driven to the trial training to train with the big ones and to make up 200 Mark Tagetel. Professional I was only at the age of 26 at Kaiserslautern, Hannes Bongartz convinced me, and I could have recovered with the police if it had gone wrong.

In 1992, they celebrated their A-country debut with 30 years under Berti Vogts. Is it true that she did not know Roberto Baggio?

_ (Laughs) _ I will never forget that. Since Michael Rummenigge, who knew pretty much every footballer, came into the cabin and said: 'Ey Langer, Horny, in Italy against Baggio'. I said, 'Who is Baggio in God's name?' I did not want to fool him, I really did not know. Rummenigge is rotten like rumple styles through the cabin and screamed: 'That can not be true that the Baggio does not know!'

Why Schulz turned the opponents at corners

What was that?

I like to play football for my life, but the Theater Drumhera left me cold. At Bremen, I often turned the opponents at corners. After that, the my colleagues asked: What is the Schulz there? And that then said: The addiction to his opponent. Once I should meet the Soldo Ceilings of Stuttgart. But I did not know how he looks, I just knew the back number.

There was also the other Michael Schulz. They have signed themselves as "mentally ill" on the square, on the sport photo of 1990 they step with full force against a bucket. To a line magistrate they said, "I hope for the face, you blind nut." Why was your tend to rest?

Of course I was tough, that was partly borderline. For me there was already - in the broad sense - war on the square. I had an incredible ambition, just after changing to Dortmund, I also felt the pressure. In the field, I was partly no longer approachable and made me hot in front of the games to meet the demands. That was Too Much: At some point BVB manager Michael Meier said, 'Langer, you can not play in Germany anymore.' Even a specialist newspaper like the Olympia I believe: "Take him the game license." You can see what I had for a status.

The legendary bucket: Schulz leaves his frustration free run. Sport photo of 1990

How did you get away from?

An old police colleague was also at the same time antistress coach. He has recommended me to start with myself, whether I'm not fault and not everyone else. He gave me a book about anti-stress training. Then I became another person - and from the asshole of the Bundesliga to the international, as I always say.

From their rather inglorious time, their cult nickname, "Schulz, du Sau", who they have gotten missed by Duisburg fans. When did you call the last time someone?

That happens constantly. On the street, on the village, in the stadium, again and again. But always for fun, that's just a running gag. The fans are looking forward to, and I am pleased too.

Your ex-Club Bremen has risen in summer. How do you judge the development there?

They had the feeling that they somehow save the time with their North German serenity - this typical Werder feel. That was already that there is everything there little is quieter, I always felt as positive. Maybe the descent is the quintessence of that you just do not get that out of this day. In the end, you really have to say that unfortunately, they have failed.

Long hair, long leg: Schulz packs the gross in a legend game in 2019 against Luca Toni. Imago Images / HJS

What makes Michael Schulz actually doing today?

I live in Bergisch-Gladbach and actually do everything that comes. A little player counseling, moderation, a lot of radio, or even the podcast "the pre-stopper". In front of Corona, I also played at the traditional teams of Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund or in the traditional national team. But now I will soon be 60 years old. Whether I celebrate a comeback, I do not know. But health is fine. Mostly I have also more divided than plugged.

And except football?

Skiing, I was really crazy for a while. And I had trained after my career for the Iron Man. I also made all disciplines. But not everyone in one day.

This was made from the silver medal win 2016