Steffen’s problems in Wolfsburg – Nati as a place of strength after “turbulent months” in the club – sport

Renato Steffen looks back on a difficult time at VfL Wolfsburg. Since the variety with the national team is just right.

It was a new situation that he had never experienced in Wolfsburg in the last four and a half years, says Renato Steffen SRF. In the last 6 league games, the winger was left out by his coach Florian Kohfeldt, once even removed from the squad. No wonder Steffen speaks of one of the most difficult phases of his career.

I’m just an honest guy. And I demand the same from my counterparts.

“It was difficult because the coach didn’t even give me the chance to show that he was wrong,” Steffen continued. Opposite to 20 minutes and View the 30-year-old becomes even clearer: “I’ve never had such problems with a coach. I didn’t put my foot down and addressed things. That didn’t suit him.”

Suddenly new perspectives

So Steffen found himself on the bench. He openly admits that he thought a lot about his future at the time. Under Kohfeldt he probably wouldn’t have continued in Wolfsburg. Because Steffen doesn’t want to bend: “I’m just an honest guy. And that’s what I ask of my counterparts too.”

But now that Wolfsburg has separated from Kohfeldt at the end of the season, Steffen suddenly has new perspectives in the VW city. “You see again how fast things can go in football,” says the offensive player, who now wants to recommend himself again for a regular place under the new coach Niko Kovac.

Positive conclusion against Portugal

But that’s still a long way off, the present is called the national team. Here Steffen feels the appreciation that he recently missed in the club. Even if the results in the Nations League were not as desired, Steffen has not lost his confidence.

“We certainly imagined it differently,” says the 24-time national player. But now it is important to mobilize all your strength again at the end of the rally against Portugal on Sunday so that you can “go on vacation with a positive result and hopefully a very good performance”. That would certainly make it easier to return to Wolfsburg after the summer break.