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Devour me again. It is the lullaby of Cristiano Ronaldo. Lalo Rodríguez’s melody is a melody to your ears. He has broken all possible records. And if there were more, I would too. But in this age of pharmaceutical discovery, the Portuguese ran into his antidote. A voracious team. A pestle hammer. Germany. Joachim Low’s Germany. The Quiet Man. The defeat against France left the Mannschaft compromised. An entire country exerted unsustainable pressure on the technician. But someone is not three decades ahead of the world champion because of her pretty face. They asked him for changes in the line-up, also in the system. How can he keep Kimmich on the right back when at Bayern he has been a master in the engine room? Will he continue without a born center forward? On the bench you feel at home: no stress and no hectic. And that in the second match of the Eurocup he ran into the current champion of the tournament. Nothing affected him. He kept the team, corrected those small imbalances that he wore against France and made his players feel that they are capable of anything. Cristiano’s group bath. Pressure translated into forcefulness.

Memory in football is fleeting. With Low he got to heaven, but the disaster of the last World Cup in Russia cursed him. So much so that the German Federation already looked for a replacement for him. At 61, he will put an end to his huge cycle with the national team. He will be replaced by Hansi Flick, the also glutton of titles, in this case with Bayern. Whoever thought that the critics were going to change Low is because he is not of this world. The coach has lived on top of the world. On a sporting and emotional level. In 2003 it ascended the highest peak in Africa. At the top of Kilimanjaro he felt that he had reached the limit both physically and mentally but after that moment of crisis he felt a feeling of happiness. “Anything is possible in this world”, He said. What surrounds the world no longer presses you. Go your way. It worked. And that Portugal went ahead on the scoreboard. But the day of Germany. The return of the insatiable German team.

It was a matter of convincing his players. As he did with Goetze in Brazil. “Show the world that you are better than Messi and you can decide the game,” he told the often Bayern and Borussia footballer. Do you remember what happened? Striker goal in the 113th minute to give Germany the title. Low had left him on the starting bench, but such was his confidence that when he took to the field he felt like Barça’s Argentine star. This is how he has acted these days with his people. Take away their tightness and open them to unfold their football, that direct and deadly game. No frills, no search for horizontal play, no speculation. With Kroos as a maitre d ‘and with three half points in attack. The born center forwards will have to earn it. And that after the clash against France he recognized that the team lacked forcefulness. “We have to work on that”Low said. Boy they did. Because otherwise he was satisfied. He loved the bite it offered and the victory in individual duels. The attitude of the players was adequate in the absence of solving the goal disorder. Because short tournaments are very treacherous and any wrong step condemns you.

And if the great figures of the team are drawn in gray, there is always an appearance in the prolific German market of footballers. The big appearance against Germany was Gosens. With that system of Low of three centers and two lanes, the people of the band are essential. On the right the delicious Kimmick and on the left the hitherto unknown Gosens. Hello. They already know me. The Atalanta player played the game of his life. They annulled him an acrobatic goal, he participated in two that were legal and scored another. It was the common thread of the team for the victory against Portugal, granting all the credit that only a few daring had dared to take away from Germany.

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