After Germany’s 1-0 loss to Greece on Sunday, the country’s new era under manager Jürgen Klopp has begun with a draw and a loss.
It is far from an ideal start in any circumstance, but especially for a country that has witnessed humiliation after humiliation on the world stage over the past decade and desperately wants to regain their former glory. Klopp was hailed as Germany’s ‘savior’, but so were Hansi Flick and Julian Nagelsmann. The latter duo failed. The recent results show that no man can turn
things around in an instant, not even Klopp.
The former Borussia Dortmund manager himself has highlighted that this will be a process and will analyze the loss to Greece not as a world ending disaster but as the setback it is.
“There’s no reason for me to fall into depression and say, ‘We’re so bad’ — we’re not,” Klopp stated confidently in the post match conference (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). “But we’re not that good either. I don’t want the players to be judged definitively — ‘He can do this, or he can’t do that’ — if you want to criticize someone, criticize me.
“Let the new players develop. The established players are top players at their clubs, and they have my support. Feel free to criticize me, but not the boys. We don’t need to completely tear everything apart. I was surprised that some people booed. The future is as bright as we make it. We’ll take it on with everything we have. We’ll continue on this path.”
The worst thing Germany can do now is tear everything apart again. But fans have seen these projects crash and burn before. That just makes them more and more antsy as they await the time Germany finally resembles their past self.
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