From world Champions to being Relegated in four years – it sounds dramatic. The crash of the German national football team, you can gain something Positive, writes DW’s editor, Sarah Wiertz.
Of all places, the Netherlands. Ironically, the archrival orange sends us down in the second-class citizens. The Häme, for certain. What we have to listen to us now for months, perhaps for years: “Without Germany, the game’s Nations Cup without Germany, the game’s Nations League”. Prior to this thought, it is grayed out to every Fan. But besides: What is actually so bad on this descent?
“There is no world”, was how national coach Joachim Loew admitted before the possible scenario of the descent. “When we dismount, we have to accept it that way.” He is so right, our Federal trainer. Finally, we must accept that we are not top notch but at best are second-rate. This is of course a bitter Image and a bitter loss of status. But what the descent actually means?
Perhaps a slightly more severe group in the EM-qualification by 2020. So far, the opponents were in these Games, mostly Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan or the Faroe Islands, what – with all due respect – long because games were. Now Germany must. against Nations such as Poland or Iceland ran, also as an A-League-Relegated already This means that There are more attractive opponents must show, in which the German national team performance and use, in order to pass.
In addition, the coach must realize by now, after the descent, what was after the world Cup-actually quite clear: A gradual break brings little. For the only a few light have not taken care of the title, loaded professionals, but the players have to prove themselves and want to look into the Nations League. Germany would have managed but still, somehow, the classes hold, would be Löw inclined probably more likely to keep to many well-established, but the success of the rich, the previous master players.
Ultimately, however, it will play along do all the professionals, the coaching staff and the Fans, “just below”, as Löw has called the B-group. It is time that we drop the smugness, the arrogance, this Arrogance. It is time that the Trainer works again visionary that delight players with a lot of fun and team spirit and the Fans to come up with a new, original lyrics for the Netherlands. Perhaps there is now on Monday any suggestions?