World Cup: Löw debate: Völler contradicts Lahm

Bayer Leverkusen sports director Rudi Voeller criticizes critic Philipp Lahm in the debate on the leadership style of Joachim Loew. National coach taken in protection. "Jogi Löw does not have to change, he knows how to lead the team," said Völler Sport Bild.

Löw did it "in his own way over the years," said the former boss of the German National Football Team. In addition, Löw can decide himself which players he invites. "That's why Jogi does not need to change his address – he'll irritate the players in his own way."

Lahm had criticized after the team's preliminary preliminaries. the DFB at the World Cup in Russia Löws manipulating the players as too lenient. It also poses a problem with the younger generation of professionals who no longer feel responsible for the entire fabric.

"It is too superficial to say that we have retired because of some leadership style or wrong address" Voeller (58). Löw "will draw the right conclusions" from the debacle of the World Cup. What's going on, it's okay. "He has to go through criticism now, but the headwind is withdrawing, Jogi needs and will find answers again."

The player's quality for reconstruction was "definitely available," Völler said, even in the M21. "Only then it rips a bit, because we have to take care and thwart in the clubs, but for the next few years I'm not really worried."

DFB President Reinhard Grindel and the director of the national team, Oliver Bierhoff, defended Völler. "Both of them can almost be sorry for you, and whatever they are, they can not please everyone, no matter what they decide," he said of their relations with the Erdogan affair