Tiktuknu: Summary of the sports events 4.12 (Sport1)
The German national team was eliminated from the World Cup in Qatar last Thursday and for the second time in a row failed to qualify for the round of 16, and the country is still trying to understand what is behind the failure.
In recent days, there has been talk in Germany especially about the preoccupation with things outside the game, such as the protest against FIFA and the Qataris, which interfered with the preparations and hurt the national team. As I
remember, in Germany they were preoccupied with the captain's ribbon case, when the players then kept their mouths shut in the team photo before the first game against Japan, in which they suffered a loss Sensational, which actually cost them relegation. Now it turns out that most of the players of the German national team were not at all in favor of protesting against FIFA.
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As you remember, Germany and six other national teams decided to play their first game with the captain wearing the love ribbon on his arm, with the colors of pride as a protest against the countries in Qatar against LGBT people. FIFA threatened when the captain received a yellow card, the national teams and the associations decided to withdraw from the decision, and the Germans just kept their mouths shut .
In "Bild" they claim that the players did not want to mess with it at all - and the only two who insisted and pushed for it were Manuel Neuer and Leon Goretzka.
The rest did not want to do anything.
Luther Mathews, the former star of the German national team, also criticized the conduct surrounding the national team: "The attitude of the players to the tournament is a decisive thing... Why didn't the association manage to solve the issue sooner? Why is it the responsibility of the players? Why should they keep their mouths shut? Before Japan, instead of concentrating on the game? ... The association failed to make a decision and let the national team concentrate, which is the most important thing!".
Matthews also said: "And then when I was in the stadium in the 1:1 against Spain, after all the commotion with FIFA, I saw in the booth of honor the chairman of the German association, Brand Neudorf, talking to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, taking a picture with him and laughing With him - and I ask: How reliable is this man, how much can you believe in the association?"
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Valery Gzayev, the former coach of Russia, also said that "it seemed that the German national team was more concerned with LGBT rights than with football." Thomas Hitzelsperger, the former defender, claimed: "The players had to deal with too many things and were not effective.
To their credit, no one used it as an excuse."
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