The Asian Age

GERMANY NEED BIG CHANGES, SAYS LOW

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can indeed fail to get out their group.

isn’t a scary country at all, as everyone feels welcome here.

move of Diego Maradona still makes news nearly 25 years after he hung up his boots.

Assistant Referee is also prone to making mistakes, much like the onfield official. And, VAR has ensured plenty of penalties, reducing the spectre of goal- less matches in the process.

can play football.

coach Jorge Sampaoli has more tattoos than his poor skin can accommodat­e.

the group stage, Brazil and Spain appear to have the best tools to go all the way. Belgium, Croatia, England, Portugal and Uruguay comprise the dark horse pool.

countries have the passion for football but they don’t share the pragmatism and profession­alism of top teams, as they all fell at the first hurdle.

Neymar were a stock, nobody would buy him because he always falls.

loves an African team in the knockout stage if you go by the support Nigeria and Senegal had garnered in the preliminar­y stage.

Salah is Egpyt and Egypt is Mohamed Salah. Frankfurt, June 28: Germany’s coach Joachim Loew Thursday acknowledg­ed that farreachin­g changes were needed after the Mannschaft’s shock exit from the World Cup, adding that he needs some time to consider his future with the team.

“The Mannschaft did not demonstrat­e what it can usually do,” he said at Frankfurt airport as the humiliated team arrived home after finishing at the bottom of the table in the group stages.

“As coach, I bear the responsibi­lity and must of course ask myself why we didn’t succeed. That will require a bit of time, and we will hold about it,” he added.

But the coach stressed that “with the eliminatio­n, with the deep disappoint­ment that we have experience­d, we now need to think about which are the correct measures to take”.

“We need far- reaching measures, we need clear changes. We’ll need to talk about how we’ll do that,” he added.

After 12 golden years in charge crowned by the 2014 World Cup win in Brazil, Loew is under fire as a dismayed Germany question if he has placed his faith in too many former stars past their prime. talks

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