DFB President Reinhard Grindel feels misunderstood with his critical statements on national coach Joachim Loew and has admitted his own mistakes in the cause of Thomas Müller, Mats Hummels and Jérôme Boateng. "My statement on ZDF, that it would have been wiser to make the appreciation for the players already on Tuesday in the context of a press conference clear and to convey to the public, why one wants to go now another way, has not been a criticism of Jogi Löw "I contradict this with all emphasis," said Grindel on Sunday the German Press Agency.
He also did not immediately draw the right conclusions on the day of the retirement of the three world champions of 2014 from the national football team. "After all, I could have come up with the idea of encouraging such a press conference when I was informed," Grindel said. Löw explained his motives for renouncing the ex-world champion only ten days later.
A few hours later, on the sidelines of the Fifa Council meeting in Miami, the head of the DFB also said in front of the TV camera: "If you did the same thing, I believe that many questions would be answered and many misunderstandings avoided Service. "
As a criticism of Löw the 57-year-old but did not know understood. "I wanted to make it clear on a similar question that we in the DFB have self-critically analyzed the procedures in this matter and this must not be misinterpreted as blaming any person," he explained his point of view.