PK speaks volumes: DFB star Brandt just can't think of a crucial word

Created: 11/25/2022, 12:36 p.m

By: Alexander Kaindl

The pressure on the German team at this 2022 World Cup is growing.

A scene with Julian Brandt now symbolically shows what the DFB is missing.

Al-Shamal - The countdown is on.

Will Germany still avert the premature end at the 2022 World Cup?

The DFB-Elf is under a lot of pressure after the bankruptcy against Japan.

Now the final opponent is waiting with Spain.

Germany under a lot of pressure at the 2022 World Cup

Two days before the game that could shatter Germany's dreams, Julian Brandt and Kai Havertz answered questions from the press.

In the media round, of course, the Spain game was already discussed.

ARD sports reporter Felix Mansel wanted to know right from the start how the leader function in the DFB team is: Are there certain players who take command during the game or is this task shared among several shoulders?

PK speaks volumes: DFB star Brandt just can't think of a crucial word

Brandt took on this question.

He replied that "we are all leaders at our respective clubs.

We play a lot, we're experienced in a certain way."

Accordingly, the leader function is spread over several shoulders.

"I don't think it helps if only two or three guys go ahead." But then Brandt faltered: "That we all have a certain... a certain... how do you say, that's what I'm missing right now Word?"

The Dortmund star asked press spokeswoman Franziska Wülle for help.

But of course she didn't know what Brandt was missing at that moment.

Wülle tried: “Activity?

Lead the way?” Brandt waved him off and said with a smile: “No, that's the wrong word now.”

National player Julian Brandt was briefly on the hose at the DFB press conference.

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Julian Brandt still finds the key word: "Responsibility"

A short break followed, Brandt was visibly uncomfortable at this moment.

He started all over again: "That we're just, that we're fundamentally convinced about this whole thing."

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Then the international found the little word that was on his lips so much, but just couldn't get beyond it.

"We take

.

So!

Now I've got it," said Brandt with a laugh and pointed in the direction of questioner Mansel.

Germany at the 2022 World Cup: who will take responsibility now?

"Responsibility," repeated Brandt.

Then he continued seamlessly: "And I have a good feeling that everyone wants that and in the end that's the most important thing: that you're willing to take on responsibility."

A moment that speaks volumes: Brandt just didn't want to think of that one word.

Of course, that could have happened to any other player or official, a complete banality that everyone has probably experienced in everyday life.

Nevertheless, the scene is symbolic right now at this moment, when precisely that responsibility is of central importance for football in Germany.

That's what the DFB stars from the summer fairy tale of 2006 are doing today

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Shortly after the game, Ilkay Gündogan, who had been substituted, said: "You got the feeling that not everyone wanted the ball." The scorer to make it 1-0 was one of the better Germans (grades and individual criticism after the Japan game), the substitution received a lot of criticism from Hansi Flick.

Who will take the helm now when the ship is about to sink?

The national coach?

The oldest players?

The most successful players?

The ones that are the loudest?

Exactly this question now arises before the all-or-nothing game for the DFB.

Because the second preliminary round at a World Cup would finally seal the impression that fans in this country have had for years: good individual players, no team, only mediocrity and far from their own claims.

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