Ex-professional follows up
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Former national player Max Kruse reacted with incomprehension and anger to the criticism of former national coach Joachim Löw. “The fact that a former national coach who is not known for getting out of his skin reacts like that to something like this actually says it all,” said Kruse on Monday on the sidelines of the Baller League (all information about the competition).
“If there really wasn’t any truth behind what I said, you wouldn’t respond like that. Then you would say it was the performance. If he had just said that, no one would have said anything. But it seemed a bit disrespectful,” Kruse continued and announced that he would comment on the topic in more detail in his podcast.
From his point of view, the criticism makes “no sense,” emphasized the 35-year-old, who played a total of 14 times in his career for the DFB team: “Not for me anyway, because I know what it was like. But it basically makes no sense to say I wasn’t good enough and then invite me back two months later after the World Cup. Then apparently I was good enough again.”
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Löw had previously denied Kruse’s claim that an incident before an international match in England was the background to his exclusion from the 2014 World Cup, where the German team won the title in Brazil. At that time, Kruse was caught with an unauthorized visit from women in his hotel room. “The truth is: He just wasn’t good enough,” Löw told Bild. The former Bundesliga professional had his qualities 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 a bit too little,” said Löw and added: “We wanted to become world champions in football – and not in poker.”
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