After the second preliminary round in a row at the World Cup, Germany’s national soccer team has started its journey home with hanging heads. The 4-2 victory over Costa Rica was worth nothing because there was no Spanish support. Now everything is being questioned, from youth work to national coach Hansi Flick to managing director Oliver Bierhoff. Both protagonists have a contract until 2024, they rule out resignation, but they do not get a job guarantee from DFB President Bernd Neuendorf.
“The timetable stipulates that we will meet next week. My expectation of the sporting management is that they will carry out a sporting analysis of the tournament at this meeting, but that they will also develop perspectives for the time after the tournament with a view to the 2024 European Championships in their own country,” explained the head of the association. Postscript: “The resignation hurts tremendously.” That becomes clear when you listen to Bayern star Joshua Kimmich, for example. The 27-year-old looked deeply: “Today is the most difficult day of my career. It’s not easy for me to cope with it because I’m personally associated with the failure. I’m really afraid of falling into a hole .”
For Oliver Glasner, the successful coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, the failure in the group phase came as no surprise: “The elimination actually almost happened with the first game against Japan (1: 2, note), so you no longer had it yourself in the hand,” said the 48-year-old Riedauer: “Germany creates an incredible number of chances, but is still always prone to conceding goals. That has been going on for a long time.”
As a first consequence, Thomas Müller could say goodbye to the national team, his monologue broadcast by ARD after the final whistle sounded like goodbye. “I tried to keep my heart on the pitch in every game. I did it with love, you can be sure of that.”
Source: Nachrichten
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