The Germany manager Julian Nagelsmann has spoken about the death of his father, who he revealed worked in the country’s equivalent of MI6 before ending his own life 16 years ago.
Nagelsmann, who will lead the host nation’s Euro 2024 campaign this summer, described being on a coaching course when he was told of father Erwin’s death. For much of his youth he had believed Erwin was a soldier before learning, during his teens, that he was an operative for Germany’s federal intelligence service.
