The German women’s football team missed the World Cup knockout for the first time, and the team couldn’t believe it
(Agence France-Presse, Berlin, 3rd) The German team played against South Korea 1-1 on the 3rd. It is determined that the women’s football team in this World Cup can only be ranked third in Group H and will be eliminated in the group stage ahead of schedule. Captain Alexandra Popp was speechless after the game Ask Heaven, calling such a result “incredible.”
The 32-year-old Pope couldn’t accept that what might be the last World Cup in his career ended like this.
“I don’t even know what to say; I really don’t understand how this happened,” Pope told ZDF television after the game.
Germany, which has won two women’s world football championships, is one of the favorites to win the championship before this tournament. It beat Morocco 6-0 in the first game, lost 1-2 to Colombia in stoppage time in the second game, and lost 1-2 to South Korea in the third game. There is no pressure to lose.
Germany lost to England 1-2 in the women’s European Cup final in a playoff in August last year. Unexpectedly, it fell even worse in the World Cup a year later. German women’s football coach Voss-Tecklenburg, who was also shocked by the early elimination, said that the team was unsure and tied hands in this game, allowing South Korea to score the first goal in the first 6 minutes, adding inexplicable pressure for no reason.
The German women’s football team missed the knockout round for the first time, and the German men’s football team, which has won four world championships, stopped in the group stage in both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Germany, a powerhouse in football, failed to qualify for the World Cup knockout rounds within eight months, highlighting serious systemic problems in German football. The German media even directly blasted, saying that German football has been reduced from a giant to a dwarf.
The German gossip media “Bild” (Bild) wrote an editorial after the game saying that Germany “has been reduced from a giant to a dwarf” in football.
The editorial of the pictorial said that Germany was no longer a test team for being a side team, and criticized that “the world’s sports world is laughing at us” and “this is not a problem of arrogance and lack of creativity, but a lack of strength.”
2023-08-04 06:50:02
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