DFB team - Bierhoff About World Cup 2018: We disappointed people

DFB Director Oliver Bierhoff has given errors given the occurrence of the national team in recent years.

We disappointed people, but we know that, especially at the 2018 World Cup - but also partly afterwards, even if we had stumbles with good results and convincing appearances, said Bierhoff in the interview with the stuttgart newspaper and the stuttgart News.

For some alienation between fans and DFB team, on the one hand, the long international break during the Corona pandemic had been causal.

And through the personnel uprights after the 2018 World Cup and in advance of the EM 2021, the team had no real scaffolding over the past three years, Bierhoff said, Underneath the identification of the fans suffers with their team.

It sometimes lacked the necessary greed, partly also from old habit, said the former topstürmer: But I would explicitly take the young players in protection because they have come to the team in a difficult time. It was not easy for You, to attempt changes.

Bierhoff: World Cup title a realistic destination

Bierhoff took the players in front of the first home game of the new Federal Trainer Hansi Flick. National player to be a constant commitment. We demand permanent games, curiosity and openness for new measures and topics from the players.

According to Manuel's newly expressed world champion desire, Bierhoff also described the World Cup title 2022 in Qatar as a realistic goal. Because we have a high quality in the team, even if we have not brought that against Liechtenstein yet so quite in the place, Bierhoff said. But as a German national team, we always have to have the right to go into such a tournament to win it in the end.

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