“Uwe Seeler traditional team”: Joachim Löw settles accounts with Max Kruse after allegations

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Joachim Löw settles accounts with Max Kruse after allegations

Status: 24.02.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes

2015: Löw in conversation with substitute Kruse

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Max Kruse is still annoyed that he wasn’t at the 2014 European Championships and reports that women visited his hotel room. Joachim Löw is a hypocrite, says Kruse. The national coach at the time is now shooting back. And spicy.

World champion coach Joachim “Jogi” Löw takes on one of his former national players, Max Kruse. The now 35-year-old recently complained about not being nominated for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He accused Löw and the then national team manager Oliver Bierhoff of hypocrisy.

Löw now counters in the TV interview with BILD SPORT: “We wanted to become world champions in football – and not in poker!” The conversation will be broadcast in full on Sunday from 1 p.m. on TV on WELT.

The juicy backstory: Three days before the international match on November 19, 2013 in London, the striker was caught having ladies in his hotel room. Kruse recently said this in the “Flatterball” podcast: “We first played poker. And as I am, I come up with stupid ideas and then quickly ordered someone to my room after 11 p.m. I let the woman in, we talked a bit, this, that… Five minutes later there’s a sudden knock on my door. The heart was pounding. I wanted to look through the keyhole. But the hand was held up from outside. I opened the door and Oliver Bierhoff and Hansi Flick were standing there (Co-Trainer, d. Red.). Bierhoff said: ‘Send the woman home, we’ll talk about the rest tomorrow.'”

“He just wasn’t good enough,” says Löw

Kruse assumed that he would have to travel home immediately. Instead, he was told that he had one last chance and that from now on he couldn’t get into any more debt. He was in the starting line-up against England (1-0) but was substituted after 54 minutes. He wasn’t there at the 2014 World Cup. Although he had previously been called in to shoot the short portraits for the 30 World Cup squad. Kruse described the treatment of him as “hypocritical”.

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Löw says: “There were one or two things that you could perhaps tell. Things like that in the hotel have happened before. But that wasn’t the reason why Max wasn’t there in 2014.” Löw continued: “The truth is: He just wasn’t good enough. Max would have had good quality as a player, but Max would sometimes have been better off in the Uwe Seeler traditional team because the pace and dynamism in the game were simply a little too low. The reasons were performance related. Not what happened in the hotel.”

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After the World Cup, Kruse (14 international matches in total) was given new opportunities with Löw, but didn’t take advantage of them.