National team
Nagelsmann fights against historical series of defeats
The national team has not lost four games in succession for more than 100 years. Can national coach Nagelsmann prevent such a negative series against Northern Ireland?
With a victory against Northern Ireland, national coach Julian Nagelsmann wants to pass the doubts into the World Cup qualification after the false start. A new disappointment on Sunday (8:45 p.m./RTL) in Cologne even would have historical dimensions for the national football team.
For more than 100 years, a DFB team has not lost four games one after the other. The last time there was such a negative series in 1913 when even seven games were lost. Previously, Germany had lost the first four international matches of the DFB history in 1908 and 1909 before the first draw was succeeded with 3: 3 in Hungary.
Nagelsmann would even be the first DFB coach with such a defeat balance. Before Otto Nerz was appointed Reich coach in 1926, there was no responsible trainer for the national team in today’s sense.
There were five games without a win in international history, most recently between March and September 2023 under Hansi Flick as national coach. After the games against Belgium (2: 3), Ukraine (3: 3), Poland (0: 1), Colombia (0: 2) and Japan (1: 4), Nagelsmann’s predecessor had to go after 25 international matches.
Against Northern Ireland, Nagelsmann celebrates this small silver service anniversary as a DFB chief coach. He also did not win four games before. The dramatic 3: 3 against Italy in the quarter-final second leg of the Nations League in March followed the 1: 2 against Portugal and a 0: 2 against France in the final Four of the UEFA competition in June and now the 0: 2 in Slovakia to start the elimination round for the 2026 World Cup.
Nagelsmann had wanted to start a success series this year to convey the self -image of a winning team for the desired World Cup title win in 2026 – as role models, world champion Argentina and European champion Spain.
There were no more than three victories in a row among the 38-year-old-last autumn in the group phase of the Nations League with successes against Bosnia-Herzegovina (2: 1/7: 0) and the Netherlands (1-0).
dpa
Source: Stern
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