Spain throws out Germany – again

Germany’s women fail at Spain at the European Championship. Like the men a year ago and the U19 a few weeks ago. This is no coincidence.

The 113th minute is of particular importance in German football history. Mario Götze shot the DFB men against Argentina to the world champion eleven years ago. And now Spain’s Aitana Bonmatí threw the DFB women out of the tournament in the semi-finals of the European Championship. The 113th minute was also in which Spain’s Jan Virgili scored the 5: 5 in the semi-finals of the U19 European Championship against Germany a month ago and thus initiated that from the DFB juniors.

As with men a year earlier and the women yesterday, Spain was the final boss for a German selection. This is not a coincidence or bad luck. Because Spain is simply an increasing football power, which has become more and more number one in Europe across the sexes and age groups – and thus an fear opponent for the DFB.

Before the turn of the millennium, Spain’s women had not won a title, the men only a European Championship (1964). Since 2000, men have become three times European champions and once world champions and after the first World Cup title two years ago in Australia, the first European Championship final reached yesterday.

The southern Europeans not only benefit from a good generation or good trainers. You also benefit from a long -grown football culture. In Spain there are clear guidelines from the youth. The country relies on many ball contacts in children with both boys and girls, developing so many technically fogged talents. There is also a clear style of play that is designed for possession and game control. All teams are based on this.

While German, English and French teams differ from coaches to trainers in their way of playing, Spanish teams can not only be recognized by the red jerseys, but also by the eleven people on the square and how they work together.

The logical conclusion is that the Iberers were successful in the junior and adult area. Spain has long been a role model for Germany. The many Spanish “exceptional talents”, as Christian Wück titled them, received praise from the German national coach: “This was a pleasure for the neutral viewer to watch the ball run, what technology the individual players have.”

In the junior area, the DFB has taken on individual aspects from Iberian youth work. Not yet with the juniors. The mooned Wück, which had previously trained the male U17, after the European Championship out.

It takes “much more” players such as the aspiring European Championships Franziska Kett (20) and Carlotta Wamser (21) to be successful. Everyone is challenged, “the association plus the clubs,” warned Wück.

While there have been young performance centers for male football talents for almost 25 years (currently 58), three performance and three talent funding centers were certified by the DFB for the first time this year. “In the junior area we are much further, much further than in the junior area,” said Wück.

“This will only work together, clubs, associations. All of Germany, it just has to make sure that we are drawing the right conclusions to have a team at some point that can win such tournaments,” said Wück. “But we don’t let up there either.”