National coach reacts
At DFB appointment: Reporter amazed Nagelsmann with question
06.09.2025 – 9:07 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
It is currently not going for the German national team. At the press conference before the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland, the national coach is confronted with a question that surprises him-and he has an answer ready.
Julian Nagelsmann looked in astonishment when a reporter from Northern Ireland asked him about possible concerns about his job as a national coach before his 25th international. In the event that the German national football team should experience the next low in the World Cup qualification after the sobering 0: 2 in Slovakia in Slovakia on Sunday (from 8.45 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online) in Cologne.
“Being worried is never a good approach. I’m still brave enough, I want to win,” said Nagelsmann, in order to then get his person out of his focus if possible. “The team is important, not me. We want to do a better job than on Thursday.”
This is also urgently needed. After the defeat against Slovakia, the German team almost stands with its back to the wall, is no longer allowed to allow itself to allow itself and also has to hope for a mistake in the Slovak. In the remaining opponents of Northern Ireland and Luxembourg, rather unlikely.
Otherwise the Nagelsmann team threatens to go to the World Cup playoffs. Because only the winners of the European qualification groups take part in the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico. “We cannot like that,” also wrote T-Online columnist Stefan Effenberg on the prospects of the four-time world champion and expect a tough game against Northern Ireland: “In Cologne, the DFB team will receive a physically strong, robust and uncomfortable opponent. Of course, the northern ends know that they are individually inferior to the German team. But they will leave everything on the square that they have.”