In a football show on Germany's second station on August 18, Worrell and Kahn recalled the scene when Germany won the World Cup runner-up in 2002. Originally, this "documentary of Germany winning the 2002 World Cup runner-up" could not be broadcast, because the record of German football is very good, and it has won four World Cup championships, so the World Cup runner-up is not "The excellent record of the German team". Last month, people from all walks of life in German football only commemorated the world cups in which Germany won the World Cup, "forgetting" the equally memorable runner-up in 2002. However, under the insistence of the 2002 German international such as Kahn, this special program of "reviewing the history of the German team in the World Cup in South Korea and Japan" was finally broadcast. Waller, who led Germany to the world cup runner-up at the time, also looked back on the unforgettable World Cup with Kahn.
During Worrell's time at the helm of germany, coinciding with the low point of German football, he had an embarrassing record - opening the precedent of the national team manager "without a champion". Because the German coach before Worrell, regardless of his coaching level, he can lead the national team to the World Cup championship or the European Cup, and The best record of Worrell coaching Germany is only the World Cup runner-up in 2002. But in everyone's mind, Worrell's contribution to the German team is still very great, because he was "not good at the front" at that time, and it was not easy to lead the team to achieve this result. The more important reason is that the "foundation" of Klose, Ram, Piglet, and Podolski, which were won by the German team in 14 years, was actually excavated in the Worrell era, and it can be said that the German team can lift the Hercules Cup in 14 years, and Wallerl also belongs to the "meritorious people".
In the show, Waller also admitted that he was the one who dug the "foundation of the championship" in Germany, but he also praised the excellent results of the German team led by the two juniors of Loew and Klinsmann. Who is the "champion foundation" of the German team in 2014? I believe that the audience who watched the 18-year World Cup knows that the "golden generation" born at the end of the 80s is actually "unreliable" at the critical moment, and what can really be relied on is the veteran of Klose's generation. Klose was "dug" into the national team by Worrell, but in the impression of many people, Ram, Piglet and Podolski are the "youth storm" dug by Klinsmann, in fact, these three heroes entered the national team in the Worrell era, and they were all selected for the German squad at Euro 2004.
Therefore, Worrell is the coach who excavated the "championship foundation" of the German team, and his credit cannot be erased. Subsequently, Worrell and Kahn also talked about the World Cup final in 2002, although in everyone's impression, the strength of the German team at that time in the trough period naturally could not be compared with the Brazilian team led by Ronaldo. But Waller also said that from the perspective of the final alone, the German team's winning side is actually very large: "At that time, our strength was not lost to Brazil, but the tactical style was different. ”
Judging from the first half of the 2002 final, the German team did not lose to Brazil in all aspects, especially in terms of physical reserves, and it was clear that the German team was better prepared at that time. The author also thinks that There is a certain truth in what Worrell said, why was the German team "generally unoptimized" in 2002? Because they are in the stage of talent shortage, the strong players in the national team are basically not in the golden age. But in the World Cup final, the veteran has accumulated all the strength to adjust the state, and young people like Klose are ready to "give it a go", so from the final lineup alone, the German team does not have the problem of "lack of talent". Tactically, the German team and the Brazilian team are "compatible", the Brazilian team has excellent technology under the feet, but the German team's air ability is excellent, it can only be said that both sides have their own advantages, and they are indeed comparable in strength.