His achievements in goal for the national team? Plenty of them. And yet Manuel Neuer became an example of how difficult it can be for successful people to leave at the right time.
Something had been slipping in the perception for some time. Recently, even DFB sports director Rudi Völler sounded just as Manuel Neuer could have liked. “Whether he continues is a decision he has to make himself. With Marc-André ter Stegen, we have another world-class goalkeeper who is waiting for his chance,” Völler said last Sunday on the television channel “Sport1”.
Neuer himself makes the decision as to whether he is currently the best German goalkeeper and therefore plays for the national team? It is hard to understand Völler any other way. Meanwhile, challenger ter Stegen is waiting patiently for his own chance.
Source: Stern
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