“Not German enough” or “not white enough”. These are the kind of racist comments that abounded on social media after the German team lost a Nations League match to Greece on Sunday.
Faced with the surge, the emblematic ex-Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp, today at the bedside of a German selection not really at the top, reacted: “Concerning people like that, honestly, there is no reason to pay them the slightest attention. In life, I have very little time to devote to stupidity, and it’s the same on social networks,” declared the coach at a press conference last Wednesday.
The new coach notes that “the real problem is that everyone is allowed to give their opinion. Well, people have always had the right to do so. But today, people just post their thoughts before they even start thinking. It’s madness when you see this kind of thing,” he said indignantly before praising the human qualities of his entire team.
“The world could learn a lot from a football locker room”
“The world could learn a lot from a football locker room,” he adds, undoubtedly addressing the 44.5% of Germans who voted on September 6 for the far-right AfD party in Saxony-Anhalt and the 38% who did the same in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a few days later.
At the head of his group, which includes talents like Younes Ebnoutalib, Nadiem Amiri and Serge Gnabry, the Mannschaft coach believes that the cohesion of the group is at its maximum, despite the differences that there may be: “Anyone present around our gathering can see that this group can hardly do better in terms of common life and the way of working together.”
