Otto Rehhagel
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"Otto Rehhagel" is a German Association football/football coach and former football player. Along with Helmut Schön, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Udo Lattek and Hennes Weisweiler, he is considered one of the most successful German managers.

Rehhagel is the only one of two persons, the other one being Jupp Heynckes, who, as player and as manager combined, has participated in over 1000 Bundesliga matches. In the Bundesliga, he holds the records for the most victories (387), most draws (205), most losses (228), and his teams have scored the most goals (1473) and conceded more (1142) than any other.

Internationally, Rehhagel coached the Greece national football team/Greece national team from 2001 to 2010 in what has been the nation's most successful footballing era – during that period, the Greek team won the UEFA Euro 2004/2004 European Championship and qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup/2010 World Cup, their second ever World Cup finals participation.

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The players are motivated to the tips of their hairs and they will come out with a lot of passion because they know this opportunity does not come round very often.

We cannot score many goals in every match, our aim is to play with a strong defence, which we have not done so well in recent games. We must keep a clean sheet and make the best of the opportunities created.

We dominated throughout the match and had about 70 percent possession but we just could not score a goal. What can I say. I hope in the next matches we have a little more luck.

We've been very close as a squad during the last four days. All the players from the Euro 2004-winning squad, except for [Traianos] Dellas, are at my disposal. We have talked about the importance of the match against Kazakhstan and I can see how much they want to win.

I can see that my players are eager to win this time, and win we must in order for us to retain substantial hope for qualification.

In Greece, people have a quality of life. People here live beautifully.

It's true that we have not won for some time now, and we seem to have some difficulty with scoring. And that includes the Confederations Cup too, where we tried a few things.

The bad results in the past few months were the defeat by Albania at the opening of our qualification campaign and the home defeat by Ukraine. But a win always turns the tables.

Nothing has been lost and I have told my boys we still have chances for second place.