With the 2026 World Cup set to start soon, Bayern Munich and Germany legend Thomas Müller touched on some sports-related topics in an interview with ran football, including the chance that his country could win it all, like they did in 2014.
“Basically, the goal—to quote Deniz Undav—is that you go to a World Cup to win every game,” said the Raumdeuter. “But that doesn’t automatically mean he’d say he sees Germany as the favorites right now—and he has his reasons for that. Still, especially as the German national
team, you know you have what it takes to win every game. You’re not an underdog; we can beat a major team. But it’s also true that the team and the individual players aren’t currently at that absolute top-tier level where you can say, ‘If we face a major team, we’ll win four out of five times.’ Instead, right now it’s perhaps the other way around.”
“It would be nice if we went far, but it’s about evaluating each individual game and the performances,” he added. “If I see that we’re playing well and that, should we be eliminated now, we simply didn’t have that little bit of luck on the day—then we were still good. But of course, in a tournament like this, success is also measured by how many rounds you get to show yourself to your critics—that is, your fans.”
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