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The 0: 6 in Spain tore deep wounds. Joachim Löw is no longer sustainable as a national coach, but his superiors are firmly resisting for him.
As if all strength had been exhausted: Joachim Löw after his worst defeat in match 188 as national coach.
Photo: Marcelo Del Pozo (Reuters)
It sounds loud again in German football. The big speakers of the march ahead «image»– Newspaper in which the resignation of Joachim Loew is requested. The record player Lothar Matthäus, an authority on the country’s great masses, shouts: «This is not my Germany!» the «Southgerman’s newspaper» write how long Löw will remain national coach is the subject of the next hours and days.
The 0: 6 in Spain hit the Germans in the market. His national team hasn’t lost that much since 1931, then against Austria. This time, in the empty stadium in Seville, he could have scored an even bigger defeat. Spain was so good and superior, and Germany was so dramatically bad.
After this latest game in the nations League sLöw speaks to ARD for an interview. Nothing worked at all, he says, body language, body tension, he didn’t see anything. The boss is no better than his players. Throughout the whole game, he looks like a pile of misery on the bench, like he’s paralyzed. «We have to fight again», he says. How am I supposed to go with him? In front of the microphone he looks old, much older than his 60 years, as if all his strength has been exhausted.
No more instance
You don’t want to give up. Because you are really convinced that everything will be fine until next summer and MS? Why can’t you let it go? Because you are too proud and complacent to admit failure? Why do you resist advice?
Oliver Bierhoff, the director of the national team, will be by Löw’s side on Tuesday evening. Trust in Löw is «perfectly» gives: «This game doesn’t change that either.» The coach and coach joined the DFB, the German Football Association, in 2004, when team boss Jürgen Klinsmann began to embark on a better future. Löw was promoted to national coach after two years and had good results. He reached at least the semifinals of a major tournament five times in a row. The highlight was winning the 2014 World Cup.
At its peak: Germany wins the 2014 World Cup.
Sport: Alex Grimm (Keystone / AP)
That was not enough for Löw, he also wanted to win the European Championship afterwards. He failed and two years later, in 2018, he even ran into Russia’s debacle with elimination after the preliminary round. Since then, Löw is no longer the Löw that would be inviolable, he is no longer the authority that the country and the media would admire.
Löw’s fatal decision
It took months for him to come to an agreement with Russia. I wanted to restructure and order the team.me That is why Thomas Müller, Mats Hummels and Jérôme Boateng left in March of last year, all highly decorated players, all world champions and leading players.
This decision haunts him to this day, and it is fatal because there is a problem associated with it: Löw has completely overturned the principle of performance. Time and again, and especially in recent weeks, the Germans have shown just how much their defense is a torso: three goals against Turkey, three against Switzerland, three shots to the post even against Ukraine weakened by the Crown. And now the debacle in Spain.
«Now you know where you stand»says forward Serge Gnabry. Yes, at the limit, and that mainly applies to Löw. He has run into a dead end with his stubbornness to relinquish Hummels and Boateng’s leadership on defense. Robin Koch is completely overwhelmed, as is Niklas Süle, and when Süle is injured, Jonathan Tah enters. Tah? With Bayer Leverkusen he has made seven games in the Bundesliganorth in two short assignments. And what does Löw say? He has confidence in these players. Not the slightest sign of rethinking in the case of Hummels and Co.
As luck would have it, the day after Sevilla’s match in «Sports box» A prefabricated interview with Manuel Neuer appears. In it the porter and the captain say: «We have to act according to the motto: We are the German team, we are who! Can you come.» This statement is quite skewed in the picture. The Spanish have come and flew over the Germans. The Swiss had offered them a completely different resistance last Saturday.
Bierhoff’s announcement
Since the last World Cup, it has been debated in Germany that the national team has increasingly distanced itself from the grassroots, that is, from the people. The poor ratings on television serve as evidence that she is no longer the pride of the country. That has a lot to do with Löw: with his increasingly lonely attitude Y sometimes alienated way of leading the team like the «Süddeutsche» Establishes.
Now there is a Bierhoff phrase in the room. «I will follow the path chosen by the national coach up to and including the European Championship»he said these days. One interpretation of this is obvious: after MS next summer, Löw becomes as national coach, either way. If he fails, there is no longer any reason to continue despite a contract that runs until 2022. And if he succeeds, he can at least resign with his head held high. Regardless of how the story ends, Löw has to do it with the feeling that the country has long been tired of him.
Success means: at least one semi-final. That’s what the president of the DFB, Fritz Keller, says officially. The group’s rivals are France, Portugal and Hungary. That Germany prevail against them is beyond imagination at the moment.
