Former coach of the German national team Berti Vogts Matthias Sammer sees Matthias Sammer as the ideal complement to possible future national team coach Jurgen Klopp. “It is important to have a strong person next to the national coach. And only one comes to mind: Matthias Sammer. In my opinion, he would be the ideal complement to Klopp,” Vogts wrote in his column in the Rheinische Post.
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The 79-year-old referred to the successful collaboration between Jurgen Klinsmann and Joachim Löw until the home World Cup in 2006. “Summer knows the game and has the necessary ambitions, which I recently lacked in the national team. He can bring him into the team – and he can keep Klopp’s back free,” Vogts wrote. What the construct will be called, in the end, does not matter. “There should be no vanity either. The more competence, the better.”
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Summer has leadership strength and the ability to influence players. He also knew “how success works,” wrote the coach of the European champion in 1996. At that time, Summer was a central figure in the selection of the German Football Association. And also Klopp and Sammer are also “strong football personalities who have enjoyed colliding in the past. This is also important, but in the spirit of football. They both love football,” wrote the 1972 European champion and 1974 world champion.
For Vogts, Klopp is the “best solution” to replace Julian Nagelsmann National trainer. The former Liverpool manager has “the ambition to change things, he has the specialist knowledge to take the team forward, he has a fire that can inspire, he is a good communicator and has an international flair from his successful tenure at Liverpool, which gives him a different perspective on German football,” Vogts explained.
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