Analogue excitement without a tablet or tactics sheet: Like 23 years ago, Rudi Völler immediately succeeds in revitalizing the national team and the joy of the fans. Despite the will of the people, he is not available as European Championship national coach.
The DFB President had referred to the Chinese alphabet theory, in which the terms “crisis” and “opportunity” are supposedly named with the same symbol. He wanted to express that the crisis was also an opportunity, and Rudi Völler took the message literally when he got his team in the mood for the game against the favorites: “Until they lost their senses,” he drummed into the players, demoralized by the failure, what “will and commitment, courage and risk”.