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title: "Joachim L\u00F6w on never finding distance from Germany after leaving the national team"
date: 2026-11-14T12:35:00-05:00
categories: ["opinion"]
url: https://tacticsjournal.com/2026/11/14/joachim-low-on-never-finding-distance-from-germany-after-leaving-the-national-team/
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# Joachim Löw on never finding distance from Germany after leaving the national team

[Former Germany national team head coach Joachim Löw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVoCVkJQvj8&t=127s):

> It has to be said that in the end, we don't lack attitude in some positions, but quality. Simply world-class quality. There are some positions.
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> And the second thing is that we also have to find approaches in training when players are in the youth ranks and transition to the pros, because the step from a well-trained player to a world-class player, who is world-class in his position, is still a huge one. And we certainly make mistakes there.
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> Because when someone is 18 or 19, they come and then they just run around in a Bundesliga team somewhere. But that's where it really starts. And we should make individual training a priority in all our day-to-day work.
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> I understand the pressure to succeed in the Bundesliga. I understand the pressure to succeed from the coaches and the clubs. The only thing that matters in some way is the result in order to survive.
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> But that's simply not sustainable; the transition, the individuality, the individual training sessions, we should push those much harder.
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> At the bottom, in the transition phase, and at the top, in the training sessions of the professional teams, we need to intensify things a lot more and do very specific training for each position two or three times a week.
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> What does a player need to go from being a normal, good talent to being an international class player, to being a world class player? And that takes between 18 and three, 24, five or six years of work. And we largely miss out on that. That's perhaps the reason.

I think the word he is looking for is personality. A team with a positive personality will beat a team of quality, in my opinion.

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