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Former national coach Joachim Löw does not accept criticism from his former DFB kicker Max Kruse.
He counters sharply.
Munich – Joachim Löw, long-time coach of the German national soccer team, does not accept a “hypocrisy” criticism from his former protégé Max Kruse.
He recently publicly complained in his podcast
Flutterball
that Löw had not nominated him for the successful 2014 World Cup and blamed a hotel escapade for this step.
Löw now countered sharply and directly.
Joachim Löw |
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Born: |
February 3, 1960 in Schönau in the Black Forest |
DFB head coach (from/to): |
2006-2021 |
Successes with the DFB team: |
1 x World Cup title, 1 x Confed Cup winner |
Max Kruse reports on the hotel escapade in a podcast
Max Kruse reported in his podcast how he played poker late in the evening before the DFB international match against England in November 2013, before calling a lady to his room around 11 p.m.
“I let the woman in, we talked a bit, this, that - five minutes later there was a knock on my door,” said Kruse, describing the situation that was relevant to him.
The then team manager Oliver Bierhoff and Löw assistant coach Hansi Flick were standing in front of the door.
The woman was sent home, Kruse was allowed to stay and even played the first 54 minutes against England - but subsequently did not receive an invitation to the World Cup, which he found to be “hypocritical”.
An assessment that Joachim Löw did not want to leave alone.
Former national coach Joachim Löw (left) does not want to let the accusation of hypocrisy from his former protégé Max Kruse (right) stand.
© Photo left: IMAGO/Newscom/GDAPhoto right: IMAGO/mix1
Ex-DFB coach Löw: “He just wasn’t good enough”
In the
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, the 2014 world champion coach explained his view of things and stated with a touch of sarcasm: “The truth is: He just wasn’t good enough.
Max would have had good quality as a player, but Max would sometimes have been better off in the Uwe Seeler traditional team because the pace and his dynamism in the game were simply not enough.”
Löw also explicitly stated: “The reasons were performance-related.
Not what happened in the hotel.” In his opinion, there can be no question of hypocrisy.
The name of the former DFB coach is currently cropping up again and again at FC Bayern and the search for a successor to Thomas Tuchel.
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