The prelude to the international year of 2019 means a break: Three world Champions will be sorted out, and now younger players have to take on more responsibility. Especially of the Creative Sané and Brandt, much is expected.
Leroy Sané
New Start, new Sponsor, new face of the DFB, one cannot in these days the word “new”. As a term, could wipe out all the Worries and troubles of the past just like that. Also national team Manager Oliver Bierhoff took two days before the first match of the year against Serbia in Wolfsburg (Wednesday, 20.45) the current PR-speech: “We are building a new Team, but that takes time. It is a process.” The DFB chief strategist, took the national coach on the Podium in front of the press. Joachim Löw only travels a little later to Wolfsburg, he is recovering from a Tooth Operation. “We want to have fun, but not without seriousness. We need to work hard.”, Bierhoff said.
In the end, more hard work seemed not even to include the basic virtues of the DFB selection. The disastrous world Cup 2018, with the departure in the preliminary round ended with the descent from the A-League in the newly created Nations League. Now, in the year 2019, without a big tournament but with the EM-qualification in front of the chest, everything is supposed to be better. As we know, without the established forces of Mats Hummels, Jerome Boateng and Thomas Müller, all of whom are world champion of 2014. With the surprising Ausbootung the Bavaria-Based German national coach Joachim Löw had moved up in the last week, the Start of a new game of the year – gleefully exploited by the tabloid media, and countered by the players involved in the social media, which complained about “lack of appreciation” and “bad style”.
More responsibility for Brandt & co.
Löw and Bierhoff wish that younger players grow in the DFB-Team in the responsible roles. “I told Leroy, you as a old hand now lead the boy ran,” said Bierhoff, half-jokingly, Leroy Sané, who, with his 23 years, even still among the youngest in the current squad. Sané is regarded as a highly talented wing player who can make the difference, but not just as a Leader. At the world Cup in Russia Löw had deleted him shortly before the start of the tournament, still out of the squad, at Manchester City under Manager Pep Guardiola, he shines, by contrast, regularly in the powerful English Premier League and in the Champions League.
Oliver Bierhoff: “We are building a new Team, but that takes time.”
The departure of Thomas Müller, who has also been used in attacking midfield or on the wing positions, provides for Sané now the Chance to have more time in the national team. And also Julian Brandt is expected to be in demand more in the future. The Leverkusen in the DFB began on a Monday, first thing on the Podium, eloquent and self-aware of the 22, presented-Year-old journalists. “The three have helped me enormously, as I discovered am. These were role models,” said Brandt about the lack of veterans Hummels, Müller and Boateng. “But we take it that way. It will do us good if we take responsibility and we learn.”
Bierhoff sounds the Alarm: To little exception-rounder
Not only are these statements are expected to to the Confederation coach fallen, much more still, Brandt’s capabilities and its current shape curve, which shows a steep upwards. The Leverkusen (seven goals, 13 templates in this season) is one of the big winners in the Bundesliga round, impresses with its technology, speed of activity and the class can make the decisive Pass in the depth of play. Already at the world Cup, Brandt came, even if they are late, in all the group games and was able to convince one of the few.
That there are fewer and fewer players of this variety in Germany, a potential exception-rounder with individual Strengths as Sané, Brandt, or the talented Leverkusen playmaker Kai Havertz, Bierhoff to think. “In the Junior area, we have a few of them, to be different from seven to eight years. We need to consider,” says Bierhoff, since this year also for the DFB Academy and uniform talent training responsible. At the present time he see but a “good Basis”. “We want to develop the young players we have.”
The (younger) of Bavaria, count to players on the new defensive leader Niklas Süle, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka and Serge Gnabry, as well as the Leipzig Timo Werner, who are all now more in the spotlight, and to Support in the DFB-Elf. For the game against Serbia three newcomers in the line-up: Lukas klostermann (RB Leipzig), Niklas Stark (Hertha BSC) and Maximilian Eggestein (Werder Bremen).
The Germany jerseys – now with the Volkswagen Logo
New Sponsor
However, not only on the court, the face of the team is changed gradually, also in economic terms, a new era ushering in the year 2019 statement. Nach46 years separated the DFB Sponsor Mercedes. Now the other car maker from Germany, Volkswagen emblazoned with his Logo as the main sponsor on the jerseys, training materials and the team bus.
Volkswagen is the sponsorship, according to reports almost 30 million euros in annual costs. The contract runs to 2024. Scoffers claim that the partnership was coming at exactly the right time. Finally, both have something in common: Not only the DFB, also by Volkswagen, according to the Diesel scandal, an Image-polishing sorely needed.