The national team has been in crisis since 2018, and Julian Nagelsmann is now the third national coach who cannot free himself from the downward spiral. The first step is already missing: awareness of the seriousness of the situation.
In retrospect, it is no longer possible to quantify exactly when the mess started. With the first game at the 2018 World Cup? Or already with the preparation for it, by the way with a defeat in Austria? In any case, the German men’s national team has been in crisis for five, really, five years, and it has long since reached a point where failure begets failure. This self-reinforcing whirlpool of doom that everyone in football knows and yet is hard to escape. Defeats lead to self-doubt and insecurity, self-doubt and insecurity lead to defeats, which in turn… it goes deeper and deeper.
