Lukas Podolski: footballer talks about childhood in “simple circumstances”

Lukas Podolski
Footballer talks about childhood in “simple circumstances”

Lukas Podolski (36) apparently did not have an easy childhood, but a happy one. “We started with little, worked hard and achieved a lot,” said the soccer world champion from 2014, who was born in Gleiwitz, Poland in 1985 and whose family had moved to West Germany at the time, in an advance notice from the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”.

See you at the football field in the evening

“We were four people, spread over one and a half rooms,” the athlete recalls. “It does something to you when you come from such a simple background.” He also remembered the moments with his friends in particular: “On the soccer field with my boys, the six of us played against six until the evening hours. No cell phones, no Instagram, no fuss, just outside and having fun to have.”

Back then, the rascals “stole cherries from the neighbors”. Podolski is “glad that I experienced this time”. And his own children should “grow up as carefree as I do”. The soccer player has a son and a daughter with his wife Monika, with whom he has been married since 2011. When it comes to upbringing, both parents are “not particularly strict, but rather give the long leash”. But that doesn’t mean that there are no rules. These include, among other things: “Be friendly, tidy up, eat sensibly”.

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