BERLIN (GERMANY), Jan. 21 (dpa/EP) –
Former German footballer Lothar Matthäus considers former German coach Joachim Löw as the best “temporary solution” for the Borussia Dortmund bench, because he would bring “peace and tranquility” before looking for a long-term coach.
“I would say it could be a temporary solution, but not long-term,” declared the former player on the Sky channel. “If ‘Jogi’ Löw was in charge, the same thing would happen as with Franz Beckenbauer at Bayern; when Franz was there, there was peace and tranquility,” he added.
The German team has accumulated three consecutive defeats under the leadership of Nuri Sahin, who faces his ‘final’ for the position in the Champions League this Tuesday against Bologna. But for Matthäus, the solution is Löw “for the next four months.” “You can say, maybe we expected too much from Nuri Sahin before the season,” he acknowledged.
“That’s why ‘Jogi’ Löw would be a possibility for me, to bring calm first and then look for a new long-term coach,” he said about the former national team coach. This was his last job on the bench, when he left the German team after the 2021 Euro Cup.