What is Happening With the German National Soccer Team?

The problem also is by no means the players with some of the best young talents in the world being German with Kai Havertz, Timo Werner, Leroy Sane, and Lukas Klostermann being under 25 years of age and having played for the national team. But you also have some veteran players as options with Marco Reus, Manuel Neuer, and Toni Kroos.

So the coaching staff is clearly at fault for the lapse in a form that is normally one of the best going back decades to when Germany won the world cup for the first time in 1954 and a really strong period in the 1990s when Germany sat on top of the Fifa Rankings and won the world cup in 1990. But this is hard for Germany as a whole because Joachim Low had an impressive streak in 2010 with a strong counter-attack method that he then just lost sight of when Germany lost to Serbia in the group stage despite destroying England and Argentina before losing to Spain 1-0 in the semifinals.

So he wanted to be more proactive and got beat before he had to go back to the basics and pulled out 1-0 wins and a 7-1 win over Brazil that took advantage of their self-destructive mess. But then after winning the 2014 world cup they had their earliest exit in 80 years after a humiliating defeat to South Korea 2-0 in the final group stage match. So Low cut Jerome Boateng, Mats Hummels, and Thomas Mueller which was effectively shooting themselves in the foot.

But Germany needs to put this behind them and think about the future with many strong coaching possibilities including Julian Nagelsmann and Hansi Flick who have both taken their teams to at least the semifinals in the Champions League, Julian Nagelsmann’s RB Leipzig lost in the semifinals and Hansi Flick’s Bayern Munchen won the whole tournament.