THEliver Bierhoff, the director of the national team, insists on the rights of the German Football Association (DFB) in the debate about the impending permanent burden for the top players. After Bayern Munich’s chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge last called for a break for players of the record champions, Bierhoff emphasized the importance of the international matches against Switzerland and Spain in early September.
“We all want a successful national team, a successful European Championship – we don’t all want to experience something like the World Cup again,” said Bierhoff on Tuesday during a tour of the construction site of the new DFB Academy in Frankfurt. “We need these games – regardless of the fact that we are legally obliged to do so.”
The DFB knows “the concerns of the clubs,” Bierhoff said. Because the games are to be played in the European Cup competitions in August, the season that has already been shortened by the corona pandemic continues to melt for the clubs represented there. However, the association has recently “put back many points” and therefore now also expect support.
“Joachim Löw now has to form a very young team. This means that they are often together and can play. In this respect, we are clearly pursuing our goal. ”The announced clarifying discussion on the topic that Rummenigge wanted to have as part of the DFB Cup final at the weekend had not yet taken place, Bierhoff reported. “Not because we didn’t want it, but because we couldn’t meet the deadline.”
However, one is interested in promoting the exchange with the clubs at all levels. Bierhoff appealed to everyone involved to “pull together”. He described the plans for the half-year start to the international season as “difficult”.
For the start of the Nations League on September 3 against Spain, which is expected to take place in Stuttgart, and three days later in Switzerland, the DFB is currently planning double. Once without a spectator and once in the event that some fans can be admitted.
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