Julian Nagelsmann’s Instagram account heated up after Villarreal’s elimination (0-1, 1-1) on Tuesday in the Champions League quarter-finals This Friday, the Bavarian club coach (34) revealed that he had received … 450 death threats.
“I know that I will always be criticized from all sides, it’s normal and I can deal with it. But with 450 death threats on Instagram, it’s less easy, underlines Julian Nagelsmann. If people want to kill me that’s one thing but they’re attacking my own mother who doesn’t even care about football… I can’t understand it. As soon as they turn off the television, people forget all decency. And they think they’re right, that’s the worst part. »
He won’t complain
Before Nagelsmann, the wife and son of sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic had also indicated on Wednesday and Thursday that they had been the target of threats, showing screenshots of messages received on Instagram.
Bayern Munich, which is 9 points ahead of Dortmund in the Bundesliga, travels to Bielefeld on Sunday. But Nagelsmann does not intend to file a complaint, the threats being too numerous for that to be possible. Nor ask for increased protection and security from his club. “I wouldn’t see the end of it,” he explains. Threats, I receive after each game, regardless of the winner. We are private persons. I don’t want to provoke anyone and no one has yet come to my house to threaten me. »
Tuesday after the elimination, Nagelsmann had assumed: “I am responsible and I will not try to blame someone else. We are eliminated in the Champions League, eliminated in the German Cup. It’s the same record as last season, and for Bayern Munich, I think it’s not enough. I don’t know what awaits me. I’m not afraid, there are more serious things. »