Germany is out – again!
After 2018, the DFB team will have to pack their bags early in 2022 and leave the World Cup after the group stage. National coach Hansi Flick (57), for whom it was the first tournament, is very angry. Completely surprisingly, he rumbled at the press conference against the German Football Association!
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Question: The national team always wanted to be world class or to become world class and win the title. One disappointment follows the next. Where do you realistically assess the national team? Can you just keep repeating: We are still world class or want to become world class again. Or would one have to say now: We have to make a realistic self-assessment and then perhaps also allow a change in our own consciousness to take place.
Flick: It is (takes a long pause). The results or the performance here at the World Cup, I have to agree with you. In the end it has to go in that direction. Nevertheless, we have players who play for top clubs and I’ll say it: we have quality. I think it’s important for the future of German football that you just do things differently in training, too.”
And he goes on to say: “We’ve been talking about a nine that we need for years. About strong full-backs. We talk about many things that we need. What has always distinguished us in German football is that we were able to defend. These are just elements that we need in the youth field. A team like Spain – even if they lost – has good basics, just a good education. They just know how to handle the ball. They are also tactically well trained.”
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In conclusion, he says: “I believe that this is extremely important for the future, for the next ten years, and that we are taking the right steps.”
What Flick wants to say: We finally need improved youth work so that we don’t get thrown out of the group again at the 2026 World Cup…