Thomas Tuchel has defended criticism of him spending time in Germany after his appointment as England boss, saying he was there to see his children. The England manager adds that he and his backroom staff attended almost 25 live matches ahead of his team selections for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Latvia. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00You confused the time a little bit between October and January because I was many times
00:05in Germany and enjoyed my time off because I was not on the job. Since I'm actually on the job,
00:11I am based in London. I spend many, many days regularly in St. George's Park. We watched,
00:19I think, almost 25 matches live to see every player live at least once in the stadium,
00:24so it was a lot of travelling. And yes, you're right, from time to time I was in Germany to
00:30see my children, but the majority of the time I was here in London, so I don't really
00:38get the point of the story.