European Championship national team
Will Wagner and Wolf take over until Klopp becomes national coach?
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By Tobias Altschäffl, Christian Falk
Jürgen Klopp is taking a break after the season
Source: dpa/Mike Egerton
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It is quite possible that Germany will need a new national coach again in just a few months. Julian Nagelsmann’s contract ends in the summer. The big dream solution is Jürgen Klopp. There are initial mind games behind the scenes.
For the majority of football fans in Germany, he is the absolute dream solution as the national coach of the future: Jürgen Klopp (56) is quitting at Liverpool FC this summer after nine years, but does not want to take on a job for a year afterwards. He needs a break, he says.
The starting position at the DFB: Julian Nagelsmann’s (36) contract ends after the European Championships. No one can yet say whether he should – or wants – stay afterwards. Nagelsmann not only has to prove himself at the tournament, but also first of all in the friendly games against France and Holland in March. Otherwise there could be new discussions before the start of the European Championship.
The main person responsible for the search for the national coach is DFB managing director Andreas Rettig (60), who is conducting the discussions in coordination with the association’s top management. This is also about whether the contract of sports director Rudi Völler (63), which also only runs until the end of the European Championship, will be extended.
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Klopp would not be available until 2025 at the earliest. After leaving Dortmund in the summer of 2015, he announced a longer break, but then took over in Liverpool just over three months later. Many at the DFB are hoping that Klopp could join the team at the first international match in March 2025 and then lead Germany (at least) until the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico. So he would have a break of almost ten months – and you would “only” have to bridge six Nations League games in September (7th to 10th), October (11th to 14th) and November (16th to 19th). .
“Then there is no better solution,” says Hamann
A solution to this could be Nagelsmann’s current assistant Sandro Wagner (36), who enjoys a good reputation both in the team and in the association. Before Nagelsmann, the former Bayern striker, together with DFB director Hannes Wolf (42), assisted interim coach Völler for one game after parting ways with Hansi Flick (59) last fall in the 2-1 win against France.
Hannes Wolf (l. ) and Sandro Wagner on the German bench
Source: picture alliance/SVEN SIMON/Malte Ossowski
Sky expert Dietmar Hamann supports the model: “If Jürgen Klopp wants to do it, you have to find a temporary solution. Then there is no better solution than Wagner and Wolf: They know the store, are loyal employees and could keep the space free wonderfully.”
Record national player Lothar Matthäus (62) also raved about Wagner: “The question is: Who is free and ready after Julian Nagelsmann? I would keep every option open! Sandro Wagner is self-confident.”
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The text was written for the Sports Competence Center (WELT, SPORT BILD, BILD) and first published in SPORT BILD.
