The end of Euro 2020 will also be the end of an era in Germany: after 15 years, Joachim Lev will leave the team he led to winning the 2014 World Cup. Coach.
“I am proud because being a part of football in my country is a great honor and because I have worked with the best footballers in the country for almost 17 years (including two years as an assistant coach) and support their development,” Lev added. “We had huge achievements and painful defeats, but above all – magical moments. Not just winning the 2014 World Cup. I will always remain grateful to the team.”
Lev, who was appointed to the post in 2006 after the departure of Jürgen Klinsmann at the end of the World Cup, is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the German national team when, at his peak, he led it to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. In addition, under his baton the team reached the Euro 2008 final, third place in the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012 semi-finals.
In recent years, however, Germany has suffered a sharp fall that included relegation in the Euro 2016 quarter-finals on penalties to Italy and a slump in the 2018 World Cup in which Germany did not even pass the home stage (in a home that included Mexico, Sweden and South Korea). Also in the League of Nations the Mannschaft provided a number of serious fall displays in which there was a 6-0 defeat to Spain about four months ago.
Recently, the issue of Yogi Lev’s successor in the Wax Bayern Munich team and the team, Mehmet Schul, came up in the German media to raise three names: Jürgen Klopp, Hansi Flick and Luther Mathews. Ex-Maccabi Netanya, who serves as a commentator on television, has already been asked for his response and replied that he is fine where he is now and he is not interested in the position, while the Liverpool coach, despite the problematic situation his team is in, is not expected to leave.