Bierhoff on Özil statements: "I expressed myself misleading"

Oliver Bierhoff, the director of the national team, tried to distance himself from his own statements concerning Mesut Özil. "Unfortunately, this discussion will continue to be very emotional even after weeks, so I'm sorry that I have obviously been misrepresented and that these statements are misinterpreted," Bierhoff told Bild newspaper. Book a football trip now!

The 1996 European champion said in an interview with Die Welt: "We have never forced the players of the German national team to do anything, but we have always tried to convince them And so far, one would have had to think about giving up on him athletically. "

These statements, if Bierhoff the next day, meant" in any case, that he was in retrospect mistaken to take Mesut ". What he said was "that we were faced with the question of whether he would ride for sporting reasons in the perspective of the World Cup." We have deliberately chosen it, and that is what we stand for. "In badysis," of course, we will talk to Mesut about this topic. "

Bierhoff dodged the question of whether Özil's career in the national team was over:" I can only repeat, I was wrong is, Mesut will be judged in the future just as athletic as any other player. "

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