From Munich to Monchengladbach, there has been a heady cocktail of quiet pride, nationalistic glee and thick irony
If you heard an odd brushing sound on Tuesday evening, it was probably the German media’s collective eyebrow raising atis respected but not adored in his homeland, that they would rather be able to lord the need for aWhile a fair chunk of the reaction simply highlighted the English tabloid head loss at a foreign appointment, the strongest source of sardonic humour was unsurprisingly“Since 1966 – 1966!!!! – the proud football nation has been waiting for a trophy .
“Dream scenario from a German perspective: Tuchel leads England to their first World Cup final since 1966 – and Nagelsmann wins with Germany in a penalty shoot-out because the last England penalty bounces off the bottom of the crossbar and onto the line. Deal?” “If things don’t go well and he’s under pressure and criticised, he can go on the offensive and be tense and get irritated quite easily. It’s all in the context.“There were times when he started at Bayern, the first couple of months, he did quite well. When things go well he’s very charming and he’s everybody’s darling, and people speak very highly of him. It’s a bit of a mixed bag.”
“When he was at Bayern, having grown up very near to Munich it was something of a dream for him, but sometimes people do better away from home. Even at Bayern, he joked around with English journalists but not so much with German journalists. Working and speaking in your second language might give you a different kind of spark.”
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