DFB national coach: Why is not actually discussed about Löw?

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The worst year of the German national football team in their 110-year international career has come to an end - you have to say: finally. Never before has a German team lost so many times in a calendar year, for the first time since 1938 Germany has been eliminated in a World Cup in the first round, as a cream cap there was the descent from the A group of the Nations League on top, winless, two draws, two defeats ,

This is a sobering record, you can also say, a disastrous. However, the coach is still the same at the end of this year and will not be significantly challenged. To Joachim Loew there is no real debate. And you have to ask yourself: why not?

At Bayern, three weak games are enough to make a coach's chair wobble. You can find that absurd, but that's what you call the law of the industry. It happened at almost every top club, at Real Madrid it cost Julen Lopetegui the job, at Manchester United shakes José Mourinho. The German national team, however, seems to lead a certain life of its own in this respect.

Today we are happy about narrow victories against Peru

Germany has gone into this year as the world ranking first, so as the best team in the world, if you consider the Fifa ranking as reputable. And now you're happy about narrow victories in test matches over Peru or about a success over a Russian B-Elf.

The claim to be one of the top teams of the World Cup - for years a matter of course - has given way to a strange humility. That does the federation quite well, but the responsible one is not questioned. On the contrary: the President has issued him a Persilschein. Before the World Cup and after the World Cup once again. After the Russia debacle was instead argued over the offices of DFB boss Reinhard Grindel and manager Oliver Bierhoff, the debates about them and Mesut Özil were like a stretched protective screen for the national coach.

Löw's services are undisputed. He has brought the national team out of the conservative rumble corner, he has given her all new friends who never wanted to have anything to do with this team before. All the more peculiar is that the coach was criticized the hardest, as the team actually played the most beautiful and intoxicating football: The semi-finals in 2012 against Italy became the mediocre miracle over the coach in a time when the team the whole world with their Has inspired offensive play.

The public only shrugs

2010 to 2012 was the best time of this team, Löw and his team were at the height of their creativity, the 6-2 against Austria, the 3-2 over Brazil were festivals. In addition, it was a team that stood for a new, different, colorful Germany, and so it was sold. It then passed a single lost game, just that against Italy, to see out of the hole all the critics and reactionaries who did not like the whole direction.

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Now, however, after this terrible international year, one could have expected the Löw criticism. The coach has done a lot this year, which can be interpreted as a mistake: his compilation of the World Cup squad, his renunciation of Leroy Sané, his adherence to the form-weak world champion, his handling of the goalkeeper question, his reluctance at the beginning, his passivity in the Ozil Cause. With all this, he has done his part to make this year as it became.

But instead of fiercely arguing, the public shrugs more or less with each new defeat. It's almost as if it does not matter now if the national team is good or bad, and that is perhaps the most ruinous verdict on this DFB year.