Some rivalries can not even hide a European Championship won. The celebrations for the German EM triumph in 1996 had not quite died down, as attacked Bayern professional Mehmet Scholl Dortmund Matthias Sammer: "As its average performance are hochgepuscht is a joke. Nobody dares to criticize any more." According to the then national coach Berti Vogts, the team had "stood before the split".
This was followed by crisis meetings in the Munich Hilton and the Italian in Dortmund, a debate of the "Euro-dispute" ("Bild" newspaper) and at the end an apology from Scholl. For coach Berti Vogts was one thing very clear: "The attack of Scholl and Strunz (the Sammer had also criticized, d. Red.) Was nothing but the first skirmish of Bayern in the war for the German Championship," he said then the MIRROR.
Club rivalries that rub off on the national team are an old subject that is constantly being expanded to include new episodes. Most recent case: Manchester City's Raheem Sterling was suspended for a game of English national selection after clashing with Liverpool's Joe Gomez in the team's canteen before the European Championship qualifier against Montenegro.
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European Championship winner Scholl (l.), Sammer (r.)
"The emotions boil up ever before"
What exactly happened in the canteen was not known. Its origin is said to have had the dispute in the last top match of the Premier League between City and Liverpool. At the Reds' 3-1, Sterling and Gomez clashed towards the end of the match - and the fight was likely to continue straight away at the next clash.
"We're doing sports, the emotions are boiling up there, and I was just overwhelmed with my feelings," Sterling later wrote on Instagram. It was a five-to-ten-second thing. National coach Gareth Southgate was clear: "We have to separate the rivalries between clubs in the national team."
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Joe Gomez (l.), Raheem Sterling
Easier said than done. Especially if the rivalry has been going on for decades - like the Spanish exception clubs Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. At least since the Franco era, the gap between both clubs is deep, the enmity picked up again with the commitment of the Portuguese coach José Mourinho at the "Royal" between 2010 and 2013.
"It was hate"
Barcelona star Andrés Iniesta once distorts the "Sport Bild": "He played a decisive role in the bad relationship between Barça and Madrid." The rivalry would have also spread to the national team: "It was unbearable, the whole thing has done the team a lot of damage, it had nothing to do with the usual rivalry, it was hate."
Although the Spanish players won together the European Championships 2008 and 2012 and the World Cup 2010, alone in the five clássicos of the season 2010/2011 there were five red cards and 37 yellow cards.
And even today there is still the rivalry: Only in March of this year, Barcelona's Gerad Piqué, who was also boasted by fans because of his commitment to the Catalan independence movement, Reals Sergio Ramos, as this his club mate Lionel Messi with his forearm in Face had hit. "Sergio told me there was light contact, but if Leo bleeds then it's hard to believe," Pique said.
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Gerard Piqué (l.), Sergio Ramos
These stories run through Europe. In Northern Ireland, tensions between mostly Protestant and Catholic clubs in the national team again and again caused conflicts.
Scholes also reports rivalries
In Greece prevented before the European Championship triumph in 2004 with Otto Rehhagel and the rivalries of warring clubs that players drive with great desire to the national team. "Before Mr Rehhagel came, there was a lot in the wrong," said AFK Athens international Vassilios Tsartas once the "kicker". In England, Manchester United legend Paul Scholes recounted tensions on his playing days - well ahead of Sterling's attack on Gomez.
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Greece coach Otto Rehhagel with cup
In Germany, according to Vogts, there had always been friction in the national team in Bundesliga history. "Between Mönchengladbach and Cologne, between Gladbach and Bayern.The difference is that today a hundred camera teams are lurking on the training ground - and that the players have to learn to handle it confidently," he told SPIEGEL in 1996.
A particularly venomous, heated atmosphere existed in 2012 in the German national team - again between players Borussia Dortmund and Bayern. The sporting rivalry was at its peak at that time, due to the good performances of BVB, which seemed to be chasing Munich's supremacy in the Bundesliga.
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Former DFB teammates Hummels (front), Schweinsteiger
The baking pipe
Especially the 5: 2 Cup victory of BVB shortly before the European Championship) opened the lines of conflict. Bastian Schweinsteiger suffered some tough fouls, Mats Hummels called the Bayern midfielder for it, this keeled back. Hummels stared Thomas Müller in the legs, Mario Gomez cleared Marcel Schmelzer. Joachim Loew had to worry, then reached with the DFB team only the semifinals - despite title ambitions.
One of the largest publicly visible Eklats in the national team, however, had little to do with club rivalry: The back pipe of the young Lukas Podolski against the former DFB captain Michael Ballack may have had other reasons.
As often Chelsea and Bayern Munich meet then not on each other, that from a great rivalry could arise.
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Michael Ballack (l.), Lukas Podolski