Media on Germany’s bankruptcy – “The Andorran team would not have looked much worse” – Sport

The German soccer team conceded the biggest defeat in more than 89 years in Spain on Tuesday night and thus clearly missed the final phase of the Nations League.

There is a sense of doom in the German media, while wonder dominates elsewhere. A selection:

Germany:

• the image describes 0: 6 as “Jogi’s disaster.” The German tabloid sees the national coach’s chair sawn and writes: “Now Jogi is reeling!” The team was “disembodied, defenseless, without possibilities.”

• For him Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung In Spain the “German low point” was reached. The stress test turned into a “historic debacle.” In all parts of the team there was “total impotence” and Real Madrid star Toni Kroos was a “total failure”.

• the Southgerman’s newspaper stated: “In the midst of the latest mood of optimism, this shameful defeat is a shock to Löw and the DFB leadership.” And it must have seemed “almost silly to the Spaniards how easy the Germans made it”.

• Very resolutely voting too Time his words: “It won’t work anymore” is the title of the sports leader and therefore addresses the relationship between coach Löw and the team. The plan against Spain “went bad, bad, very bad.” He goes on to say: “The Andorran team would not have looked much worse.”

• by The world the appearance of the Germans was “shameful”. Löw watched “motionless as the Spaniards dismounted their team.”
• the kicker characterizes the defeat as “well deserved for this clarity.” The Germans “did not raise the slightest resistance and were overcome.”

Spain:

• The vanguard writes: “Spain gave itself a tribute and a bath of confidence in itself in the crowded Olympic Stadium in Seville.” And furthermore: “It was a frank race from the first minute to which Germany could not find an answer.”

• The world: “Spain humiliates Germany on a night steeped in history”.

• the Brand He saw in the Germans “toys” that the Spanish “crushed” and “smashed.” It was a performance in which players like “Augenthaler, Kahn or Matthäus would have vomited”.

• The country sums up: “Spain shames the Germans. The new generation of the ‘Reds’ has shown this with a series of goals that marked an era for the Löw team and will play the final phase of the Nations League ”.

Britain

• The Guardian: «Yes, six. Against Germany. That was historic, the kind of event where 65,000 people would spend the rest of their lives bragging that they were there. Instead, only 300 can do it, but they will. Joachim Löw’s team was not simply beaten for the first time in 13 games, it was destroyed. “