USA test is coming up
At the end of September, Julian Nagelsmann was introduced as the new national coach. Three weeks later, the 36-year-old is on the sidelines for the first time as the main person responsible for the German national team: he celebrates his debut on Saturday (9 p.m./RTL) in the test against the USA. As a look at the TM database shows, around half of the DFB coaches started with a win.
6 wins from 11 games: This is how the national coaches’ debuts went
Otto Nerz, the first national coach in DFB history, beat the Netherlands 3-2 in 1926. Jupp Derwall did the same in 1978 and with Rudi Völler (2000), Jürgen Klinsmann (2004), Joachim Löw (2006) and Hansi Flick (2021), the last four trainers all started their term with a sense of success. Nagelsmann could continue the series on the trip to the USA.
His focus is on winning. “This is the most important topic to get a good mood. In football it’s always like that, when you win, everything you did before was good,” he said before the game in Hartford. In the course of his squad nomination, he had already emphasized: “I expect, even in this short time, that you can see that everyone wants to play for the DFB, that everyone wants to win games, even in the here and now. Everyone should be extremely focused and undertake the trip to the USA with the necessary fun, the necessary desire and, above all, the necessary greed.”
Nagelsmann is the eighth national coach for whom a friendly match is on the agenda at the start. Helmut Schön, Klinsmann and Flick started in the World Cup qualification, Erich Ribbeck had to start in the European Championship qualification.
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