Ascona - He's hungry. He wants the title. With a vengeance. He lies down with the team. And provides a direction to dispute with the coach. Ballack fire!
The day after the bitter reverse against Croatia. At the breakfast table at the chic Hotel Il Giardino, the players put their heads together. Hardly überhörbar: It was whispered that it growled. Target: Michael Ballack.
The exceptional players from Chelsea has incurred the displeasure of some of the crew. The internal complaint: the body language of the 31-year-olds was too negative. He waved during the game, often from unnerved. Also: The master of criticizing his teammates too often, rather than just raise the young players.
And that is not good. For the superstar played so far mixed. Too little for a man with these qualities. His verbal tour claims that he could not do justice, is the accusation from the team.
Ballack fire! There are the first cracks in the supposedly such a beautiful atmosphere in the DFB-team. "We must have thought we would have achieved something," the midfielder struggled after the disaster of Klagenfurt for the right words and denounced the lack of order, sometimes arrogant and arrogant attitude of the team on.
You could also call it brave, what he does. Finally, he met with his analysis of the mark. "Everybody has their own thing made," Miroslav Klose ran his captain the side.
Ballack, the ran against Croatia for more than twelve miles, the team wants to wake up before it is too late. He provokes, he scandalizes. And supplies are now even one - to put it mildly - toward argument with the coach.
Ballack wants to get away from the attractive attacking football. He wants to return to the roots of the German game. "We need to go back to what I said before the tournament," he dictated to the journalists that "our strength lies in the discipline, the German virtues are the very first thing we need to show. We should not be blinded by the beautiful game. "
Loew, however, does not want a course correction. "In our philosophy will not change anything," he said forcefully, "I'm not the coach, who says:" Now we have to eat grass. I want a playful solutions. "
Ballack vs Löw. A power struggle? Or just a wake-up call? It is clear that after the reverse against Croatia, it rustles in the German team ...
