National team
Löw admits mistakes in eliminating Hummels, Müller and Boateng
Former national coach Joachim Löw regrets some of his decisions. photo
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Former national soccer coach Joachim Löw says he regrets the circumstances in which he announced in March 2019 that world champions Mats Hummels, Thomas Müller and Jérôme Boateng would be leaving the national team.
The former national football coach Joachim Löw says he regrets the circumstances in which he announced in March 2019 that world champions Mats Hummels, Thomas Müller and Jérôme Boateng would be leaving the national team.
“Of course it wasn’t the fine English way,” said the 63-year-old in the podcast “Spielmacher – The EM Talk by Sebastian Hellmann and 360Media” in collaboration with Studio Bummens. The morning at FC Bayern Munich, upstairs in a room, “the way it was played wasn’t good either,” recalled the 2014 world champion coach.
They were such deserving players, “they gave me so much,” Löw continued. “I still love them for what they did for Germany. It was really unbelievable with the commitment and euphoria with which they played the tournaments.”
In 2019, Löw justified the decision to forego the three Bayern professionals at the time with the restart of the national team. At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the three players were part of the German squad that was eliminated in the preliminary round. Before the pan-European EM 2021, Löw brought Müller and Hummels back into the DFB team. The 34-year-old Müller is still part of the national team squad.