“Lifeless idea”
DFB bankruptcy-Völler chooses drastic words
05.09.2025 – 01:30 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
DFB sports director Rudi Völler alerted the 0: 2 in Slovakia. The ex-world champion chooses drastic words.
DFB sports director Rudi Völler has been shocked by the 0-2 bankruptcy of the German national team in Slovakia. “It was not only disappointing, it was a lifeless idea,” said the 1990 world champion in the ARD: “It continued what we unfortunately saw in the two National League games (against Portugal and France), of course, better opponents than the Slovaks.”
The DFB team begged around the goal, said Völler. “In the second half it was a bit better, but not really good.” The national team had to come back to want to win 100 percent of the duels. That is the basis. “If we lack the few percent, there will be a bitter awakening.”
National coach Julian Nagelsmann has also announced a relentless dealing with Bratislava’s historical embarrassment. “I don’t dismantle anything here now and nobody on TV, I do that internally, we have enough to discuss,” said the angry national coach after the 0: 2 (0: 1) at the start of the World Cup qualification against Slovakia. Nevertheless, after the bitter setback at Nagelsmann, but also among the players and experts, concerned that Germany could even miss the World Cup.
“If we appear like today, it will certainly be nothing with the qualification. Everyone has to feel what is at stake,” said captain Joshua Kimmich. ARD expert and ex-world champion Bastian Schweinsteiger joined this. “It was not a German national team for me. If we play like this, you can forget it. We are standing with our backs to the wall,” he said.
Nagelsmann briefly and briefly confirmed this: “Absolutely,” said the national coach, who talked in Rage. After all, only the first group A qualifies for the Mammutt tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico. For Germany it was the first away defeat in a World Cup qualification.