I am actually comfortable in every position in midfield. At Bayern Munich, I even played as a winger and sometimes a full-back, so I can play many different positions. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
I was looking forward to playing soccer, playing more minutes on the pitch, and I didn’t have the chance to play more minutes in Manchester. So I came here to the Chicago Fire. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
I was looking forward my whole career to once playing somewhere else to get the experience, and if I thought about moving to England, I always had Manchester United in my head. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
When our players come from somewhere else, they sometimes show happiness when the game is 0-0 or 1-1, but we were brought up in an environment where we have to win. We are not satisfied with 0-0 or 1-1. This is the mentality of Bayern Munich. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
The small teams are playing well. That’s visible, and it has had an impact on German football. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
American leagues – baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball – you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you’re not. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
There is fireworks before the game; there is the national anthem before the game, so that is a huge difference to how it is in Germany: like, after the warmup, you touch the ball 20 minutes later. So that is a little bit different. The league, for example, the MLS is quite a young league, actually, but it is developing. Bastian Schweinsteiger Read Quote
