Sunday March 28, 2021
National coach? Just unimportant
Kuntz would be an “excellent candidate”
Stefan Kuntz is the coach of the U21 national team. And that’s all that currently counts for the football teacher in the EM group phase. He doesn’t want to think about the job as Joachim Löw’s successor. Not yet. Meanwhile, numerous praise comes from the others.
U21 coach Stefan Kuntz reacted evasively to his ambitions for the national coaching position at the German Football Association (DFB) and the successor to Joachim Löw after the European championship this summer. “If I weren’t with the U21s with just one percent, then I wouldn’t do the job right here. After that there will be enough time to discuss other things,” said the former goalscorer Kuntz, who is currently the DFB youngsters at the EM Hungary looked after, in one-two at Sport1.
The German U21s started the tournament successfully with a 3-0 win against Hungary and a 1-1 draw against the Netherlands and are heading for the quarter-finals. Kuntz is currently considered a promising candidate for the successor to Löw after Hansi Flick (Bayern Munich) and Jürgen Klopp (Liverpool FC) are not available. Löw assistant Marcus Sorg is also an option for the national coaching job.
“I think the DFB has said that it does not want to contact anyone who has a contract with another club. You can now draw the conclusion,” said the 58-year-old Kuntz in the Sport1 live broadcast. DFB director Oliver Bierhoff emphasized last Monday to the national team: “I’m really in no hurry because we have a good solution internally at the DFB.”
“Made a great development”
Joti Chatzialexiou, sporting director of the national teams at the DFB, would definitely trust Kuntz with the job. “He would be an excellent candidate! He has shown that he is a good coach, who is great with the players, has a lot of sensitivity. He has made a great development,” said Chatzialexiou of “Bild”: “It would of course be nice to when it becomes a coach from our ranks. “
The former Stuttgart master coach Christoph Daum tried the DFB history in a double pass to give an answer to the successor to Löw: “In 1990 Franz Beckenbauer’s successor was the U21 coach Berti Vogts,” said Daum and thus sees Kuntz in the pole position.
U21 national player Florian Krüger (Erzgebirge Aue) emphasized in a video media switch: “If the DFB ultimately decides on him as national coach, they will make a good choice. Not only me, many others would wish him and also allow him. But I think he wants to achieve the best with us at the tournament first. So that’s not an issue at the moment. “
Kuntz is “an open, warm and communicative person who knows how to deal with the boys. He knows what makes us tick, was even at a European Championship. He can set an example for us”.
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