Germany’s failure to qualify from the World Cup group became a hot topic
The fact that Germany, one of the World Cup favourites, could not get out of the group, received wide coverage in the country’s media. The German media made headlines about the elimination of the World Cup team.
While the headline “Shameful departure” was used in the Bild newspaper, it was claimed that December 1, 2022 witnessed the end of a once great and proud football nation. It was pointed out that four-time world champions and three-time European champions Germany faced the bitter truth, and that they could not leave the group in 2022 after 2018.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, in its story titled “The bad end of a great football nation”, said: “Since the World Cup championship in 2014, things have deteriorated. The return to the top of the world is just an illusion for the selection. After the World Cup debacle in Qatar, many questions arise.
The Tagesschau website also used the headline “From world champion to troubled child”. In the news on the site, it was stated that Germany, world champion in 2014, was knocked out of the groups for the second time in a row, and the reasons and figures for the world champion’s relegation to the problem child in eight years were conveyed to readers.
The BZ newspaper also carried the headline “Damned disaster”. In the newspaper article, the federation, the coach and the players of the national team were identified as responsible for all these events.
Süddeutsche Zeitung, on the other hand, used the headline “The result that fits into the great confusion” in its news. In the news the errors of the German Selection were examined and it was affirmed that this bad result could lead to question the future of the technician Hansi Flick.
Former national soccer player Holger Badstuber criticized Germany’s elimination in the first round of the World Cup in Qatar. In his column for the “Stuber eurosport” website, Badstuber said: “This is a fiasco. Weak, embarrassing, worthless, disappointing.” (AA)