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Joachim Löw now has more breathing space - also and especially in public
Photo: Christian Charisius / dpa
Can it go well if a coach announces his departure early, but his most important task has not yet been completed?
At Borussia Mönchengladbach they did this a few weeks ago and announced the departure of Marco Rose early on.
Since then, the previously successful team has lost all games.
So there is a certain risk with this strategy, which Joachim Löw has now chosen for the DFB - albeit under incomparable circumstances.
A trainer can lose authority as a result, the term "lame duck", known from politics, has been coined for such processes, the trainer as a lame duck, no longer able to make big jumps, let alone fly.
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