Bierhoff on Özil: Would he have remained silent – sports

The national team manager continues the communication crisis of the DFB. It even provides those ammunition that abuse the Ozil case for propaganda.

Oliver Bierhoff knows exactly what it is to be the face of a crisis. When the manager of the German national football team was still a national player, even captain, German football was already in a misery, which looks like today. At the height of the rumors, after the preliminary round of the European Championship of the year 2000, the public expected nothing more than the withdrawal or the dismissal of Captain Bierhoff, always well looked after but unapproachable. . These guys, said the president of a Bundesliga club at that time seriously on the center forward, "have not lost anything in the national team."

Sometimes you think that today everything flies faster than before, the balloon, the weather. At the time, the society of rabies was already there, and as today, it was more directed against the types of thoughtful head-to-head than against those whose opinion corresponds to a beer mat. "You must know," said his adviser one day about Bierhoff, "Oliver has never been one to provoke."

That this has not changed so far is considered by many to be part of the problem. Bierhoff, a marketing artist – initially his own, now that of the German Football Federation (DFB) – let the team call "The Team", the self-satisfied logo standing up as a screen in front of the group. athleticism sometimes mundane. What's going on behind? To regulate things internally – this is § 1 of the German Football Act

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The Bierhoff statement on the # Current national player Mesut Özil is all the more powerful. We should have thought, said the head of the DFB in an interview just two weeks after the end of the World Cup in Russia, "if you hold back athletically."

Özil, 29, born in Gelsenkirchen Athletes Ilkay Gündoğan in May on a photo with Turkish President Erdoğan advised. Unlike his German compatriot, Gündoğan Özil never commented on the process and therefore apparently missed the minimum required for his rehabilitation. The AfD smiled. How cumbersome the next, with poisonous racist advice the debate was also behind the screen for the players, Bierhoff has now explained. But Özil did not say what was expected of him "for some obvious reasons."

This is the continuation of a crisis of communication. The first says nothing at the wrong time, which opens the field to those who want to make Özil the symbol of a disengaged multiculturalism. And then Bierhoff says something wrong at the wrong time, which he later wants to mean differently – which, however, makes those who have always known him feel confirmed. Even before the big DFB badysis or Özil's declaration of wanting to remain international, the 2018 crisis has a face. Even if the player, as Bierhoff suggests, is overwhelmed by the situation: the DFB has found no solution. By the way, Bierhoff said: "The biggest disappointment for me is that we, as a group, as personalities, have not been able to tackle adversity.

" This could be from today.