Club boss Fernando Carro from Bayer Leverkusen sees a possible connection to social development in the current phase of weakness in German football.
“Germany is a highly developed country that is valued around the world for its quality standards. This fact brought me to Germany more than 30 years ago to work here,” said the 59-year-old Spaniard the “German Press Agency”.
“But in recent years I’ve had the feeling that in some areas things aren’t what they used to be. It starts with the quality of many everyday services. I’m noticing more and more that things are lacking, that worked well before. Perhaps football will also show that things have been going too well for us as a society and that we are resting on old laurels too much in some areas,” Carro continued.
This development has been indicated for a long time. “When I came to Germany, the students complained that they had to pay back the BAföG. In Spain we would have been happy if we had something like BAföG at all,” said Carro: “It’s just a German way of being critical of everything see and complain at a high level. But then something has to come out of it, a drive, a motivation. This may have been lost a bit.”
In the future you should “be ready to discuss it and look at football in relation to what you can do better here in the future and what lessons you can learn,” said Carro: “But these are just thoughts. I don’t claim it for myself to judge the loss of German virtues.”