Nagelsmann: “Definitely have some catching up to do”
13.09.2025 15:56 | 1: 51m
At the weekend of amateur sports in Frankfurt, national coach Julian Nagelsmann expressed a clear words about the profound young problems in German football.
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Yes, of course we have some positions in Germany that are not very good. Are not well occupied in width and may not be well staffed in a modern requirement profile. We have none. No huge selection of strikers. Actually for years. Now we have a couple, but not now. A huge selection, not even at super many young top strikers. We have no huge selection of full -back. We also have no huge selection of holding fixes. Of course, there is also a lot because of the order, as all teams play. Almost all of them always play four to one in the Bundesliga with a double six. So we actually do not train this road trip in Germany. And a lot of miss. It is important that you come to specialists from a certain age. Not yet in a very young age. You also have to be trained variably in different positions, different requirements, also in different sports. Because it just brings something to do something coordinatively with your hands, not just to recognize other rooms with your feet. Simply for the cognitive skills. But of course, at some point we have to start training specialists. It is always good to have players in the squad who can play three or four positions. But of course you also have to play three or four positions at top level. If you all play average and have no position where you are top, it brings us little. And then I already agree with Markus that such a specialist training is important, especially what the requirements of modern football is in certain positions. And we definitely have some catching up to do in Germany. But these are always so cycles. We also had phases, we trained a lot of these players. Then it was said that we have to train the more variable. Other countries then had none. Now there are other countries that are at the front. Is always so cycles, of course lies in the years. What comes there, how are they socialized in their clubs? What? What do they get there? Of course, Hannes Wolf also tries to develop a lot that many clubs have a good training and the probability is greater that we will get specialists. But you also have to look a little that you don’t do it too early, put the player on something.