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Löw has to analyze by December 4th
The DFB gives its ailing national coach Joachim Löw time.
The 0: 6 of the national team against Spain should be moderated quickly, but that did not succeed. Also because not everyone at the DFB liked it. Unusually open, the association fuels the public debate about national coach Löw.
Et was the idea of three politicians. If it had been up to them, Jürgen Klinsmann, then national coach, should have explained to the Bundestag’s sports committee in spring 2006 after a disastrous appearance by the German national soccer team (1: 4) and how his concept should have been explained to them upcoming home World Cup look like.
The proposal was rejected. “Anyone who wants to drag Klinsi before the sports committee,” said Fritz Kuhn from the Greens at the time, “doesn’t have all the cups in the cupboard”. As is well known, the German team finished the tournament in third place with some nice football.
14 years later, no one took up the idea from then. But the public debate of the past few days about the future of Joachim Löw, who had inherited Klinsmann in 2006, and the sporting development of the national team, which had recently been outclassed by Spain with 0: 6, revealed the force of the sporting crisis in which the Elite selection of the German Football Association (DFB) is located. A message from the DFB on Monday morning documents how serious the situation is.
Two days after a presidium meeting, during which the first details regarding the further procedure to deal with the sporting situation became public – such as the fact that they would meet again on December 4th and an unnamed participant in the video conference from the ” Bild “was quoted with the words” There is no free ticket for Jogi Löw “- the association now officially announced that a timetable has been unanimously adopted” in order to collect, evaluate and advise on findings “.
Why Bierhoff and not Löw?
The timetable envisages “giving the national coach the temporal and emotional distance to fundamentally deal with the current situation of the national team. Sporty, to analyze the causes of the clear defeat of Seville. And personally, to deal with your own disappointment. That’s the way it should be ”.
Oliver Bierhoff, the director of the national team, as the message goes on, should present and assess the current situation of the national team. This would include the experiences from the defeat against Spain, but also the overall development of the team over the past two years. After the meeting, the DFB will “provide information about the results of the discussions and the next steps at the appropriate time”.
Why Bierhoff should explain himself and not Löw is not known. But it goes without saying that explanations are required – and that the association also requires them with regard to its flagship. On the other hand, it is surprising how unusually open and transparent the world’s largest professional association is fueling the public debate these days – and getting itself into position at the end of the year. In the previous months, the DFB was overshadowed by the German Football League (DFL) in terms of handling the Corona crisis – and was criticized.
Praise for the DFL, dispute in the DFB
When football broke down in the spring and the task was to get the multi-million dollar business going again, it was in the end the DFL, which is responsible for the first and second leagues, that earned praise worldwide for its crisis management. The hygiene and safety concept served as a model for many other major leagues – beyond football. The DFB, on the other hand, was faced with confrontations with representatives of clubs in the third division it led for weeks until the game could finally continue. There was always no clear line.
Joachim Löw and five possible successors
After the disgrace in Spain at the latest, the future of national coach Joachim Löw is more uncertain than ever. The fans ask themselves: who wants to be his successor? And who would be available anyway? An overview of possible candidates.
Like last week, by the way. Apparently, in the DFB Presidium, which includes 16 other people in addition to Keller and Bierhoff, it did not suit everyone that the duo spontaneously gave the national coach, whose contract ends in 2022, support after the defeat. Immediately after returning from Seville, Keller and Bierhoff had discussed with the national coach at Munich Airport for a good 30 minutes, even though Keller had a press release drawn up on the same day in which the name of national coach Löw did not appear.
It is said that he has been living in his place of residence near Freiburg since last week. He is in daily contact with his assistant coaches and Oliver Bierhoff, who has to explain in ten days how things can go on with the national team. Berti Vogts, who was national coach from 1990 to 1998 and became European champion in 1996, has a clear opinion about the national team’s sporting crisis. “The association should think about its training for young talent and coaches.”
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