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Munich (dpa) - Joachim Löw is fighting into the EM year.
Three weeks before the first international matches of the German national soccer team, the national coach said that he saw the fierce criticism after the 0: 6 in the Nations League game against Spain as a major drive for himself.
The world champion coach from 2014 is still convinced of a successful EM with his break team this summer.
For him, the criticism is "of course now also a form of special ambition and additional motivation," said the 61-year-old Löw in an ARD interview published on Sunday: "For me, this is an incentive."
After the internal debates at the end of the year, he felt the trust of the association's leadership: “We are bundling all our strengths towards the EM: That is our task, our priority, our goal.
We have to play a good EM.
We owe it to the fans and to ourselves after the results (at the World Cup) in 2018 and in the Nations League. "
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The tournament goal is always the same.
«We always want to get as far as possible.
In 2018 we failed at the World Cup, we dumped it.
But that doesn't prevent us from putting our demands back on top, "said Löw:" I know our team has the opportunity.
If we are together for a few weeks, then the team is always in a position that we can go far. "
He had to put up with the criticism of his behavior during the 6-0 draw in Seville against Spain.
«My body language was bad.
I had the feeling that I couldn't move anything anymore.
"That was a wrong sign," said Loew understandably.
The DFB selection starts at the end of March with the games against Iceland, Romania and North Macedonia in the qualifying round for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
At the European Championships in June, world champions France, European champions Portugal and Hungary will be the group opponents who are demanding in terms of sport.
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