Jester on the DFB-siding: Podolski wants, but he is still needed? – N-tv.de NEWS

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 Saturday, October 11, 2014

 
 
 

  by Christoph Wolf and Stefan Giannakoulis, Warsaw
 

 

 
 His family is proud of him – but the DFB team needs him yet? Even Germany coach Joachim Loew is struggling to define the role of the offensive player in his team. Because he does not play any more?
 

 

If Lukas Podolski once pushes frustration, he must look at the figures only. The DFB to its statistics. He has played for Germany 118 football matches. Are better only Lothar Matthäus (150) and Miroslav Klose (137), because who could not leave the national team through to old age. In addition, 47 goals – four more than Uwe Seeler, the same number as the storm legends Jürgen Klinsmann and Rudi Völler

Statistically, this Lukas Podolski of Germany’s best footballers of all time, and with just 29 years. . Actually, one would have to bet on the heart of Cologne, that he will break the record for most international matches and also for the most goals maybe. His problem is: His stats are impressive. But he impressed in the DFB-shirt anybody. Neither coach Joachim Loew. Here Lukas Podolski is still world champion. His family is proud of him, as he said on Friday in Warsaw, before the qualifier against Poland (from 20.45 clock RTL and in the Livescores on n-tv.de). “If I had a cousin of mine, I would be just as proud.”

But in fact turns out for quite some time the question of how many caps this is Lukas Podolski make at all – and should make. Whether he can once again go beyond the role of the follower, which he officially held since the triumphant World Cup until the DFB team and has since also at Arsenal. And if does not, in contrast to his club colleague Per Mertesacker simply lacked the courage, the view after a winning the world title DFB decade also.

“Instant full swing”

The characters in Dusseldorf, Dortmund and now Warsaw indicate that the honest answers to these questions by Loew “few”, “no” and “au scho possible” would be. It was almost pathetic how the coach tried at the press conference before the match against Poland at its most deserving international. As he stressed that Lukas Podolski “in the national team always from day away brings its qualities and immediate full swing comes” as he therefore turned him against his native land a place in the starting XI in view. And as he other hand, his qualities praised as the Joker, who was right there by the bank always and dynamics purely bring

If you did not know better, might have thought. Lukas Podolski is indispensable in the DFB-starting – as hyper dangerous substitute however. The opposite is the case. The most pressing question for Löw is not from when Lukas Podolski best plays – but if at all. Since the EM 2012 offensive player has under Löw only lost his place on the left side of Marco Reus offensive and then also its place as the first Joker to André Schurrle. If there can be any losers in a World Cup triumph, Lukas Podolski was part of it next to the insertless Dortmunder field players.

“Easier for me than for other players”

he fact that once a real striker was football Germany has long since deleted from his memory, although the position is a problem area in the storm without Klose. That a twelve-week shutdown Lukas Podolski would cause similar dismay as Mesut Özil, seems impossible. That he does not perceive all this, also. No place in the starting line-up against Poland that would hit him.

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It should be noted it is not him. In Warsaw he presented himself as usual as cheerful nature and stressed: “I am delighted to be here. I can understand the language, it is of course easier for me than for the other players. “Scoffers might say that it was since the resignation of the Polish-born Miroslav Klose also become his greatest asset in the DFB team. Symptomatic of his new status, that he no longer can expect a starting place when injured with Mesut Özil and Marco Reus two-thirds of the attacking midfielders series fail as in Warsaw and Thomas Müller and Mario Gotze as a “false nine” should be asked

claims still not formulated Lukas Podolski in Warsaw, at Arsenal he is finally not even Joker. “Everyone knows the situation at club:. I have no game rhythm” In the past week he had openly talked about the fact that he wants to leave the club. He was fit, Lukas Podolski said, and would of course also to the country where he was born “not subside percent, to distribute any gifts” when used. If the coach gets a chance.

  Source: n-tv.de