Berlin (AP) – The former national coach Jürgen Klinsmann considers the situation for his successor Joachim Loew in the national football team for highly explosive.
„This is a powder keg,“ said Klinsmann the „image on Sunday“. Löw has put himself under pressure with decisions such as the retirement of world champions Mats Hummels, Jérôme Boateng and Thomas Müller. „He has to succeed now, the results have to be right. Because at the moment football Germany is moving at a very low international level“, Klinsmann explained.
The 54-year-old had led the DFB selection at the 2006 World Cup with Löw as assistant coach for third place and then resigned. Löw took over the office and became 2014 with the team world champion. However, since the first time in a World Cup group stage in the previous year in Russia and the descent from the top group of the Nations League, the national coach is heavily criticized.
„After the victory at the 2014 World Cup, a sense of arrogance has crept in,“ said Klinsmann, who will in future work as a TV expert for RTL. Overall, German football has lost touch with the international top. „There is a red alert,“ Klinsmann said.
The environment of the national team and the clubs must completely rethink, called for the former World and European champion. Klinsmann called the youth work and the pace in English football as exemplary. He also sees the 50 + 1 rule as „a disadvantage for the Bundesliga on the international stage“. This rule, which only applies in Germany, prevents external investors from becoming majority shareholders of spin-off professional corporations. „You can only get money from investors if they are allowed to have a say in the club,“ said Klinsmann.
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