At the international match in Munich, Thomas Müller, among others, was also bid farewell by the DFB. Before the game he was in an extremely good mood in the ZDF interview.
It has long been known that Thomas Müller likes to have one or two sayings on his lips. During the German national team’s Nations League game against the Netherlands in Munich, Müller’s former DFB colleagues Christoph Kramer and Per Mertesacker also felt this.
Before the game at the Allianz Arena, Müller, along with İlkay Gündoğan, Manuel Neuer and Toni Kroos, were honored for their DFB careers. However, Kroos was not there himself.
Before the award, Müller answered questions from presenter Jochen Breyer and TV experts Kramer and Mertesacker in an interview with ZDF. “It definitely went by incredibly quickly,” said Müller about his 14 years in the national team.
However, he then turned to Kramer and Mertesacker, whose DFB careers were somewhat shorter. “You can ask them both, it felt like it went by a little quicker for them,” he said with a laugh and added: “They’ve been standing here for five years.”
Mertesacker was active for the national team between 2004 and 2014. Kramer’s DFB career only lasted two years between 2014 and 2016. In any case, Kramer took Müller’s saying with humor and confessed that the farewell to his former DFB colleagues would definitely be emotional for him. The obviously less maudlin Müller also had a suitable saying for this: “Now don’t whine!”
Given the positive mood and reporting about the national team at the moment, Müller criticized the media. “I don’t know when the pendulum changed from everything being black to everything being very, very good,” said Müller. “When we talk about German football, it often sounds as if we are always talking about the big picture and always about whether we now urgently need to change the entire training system because we have completely lost touch with everything “It’s very, very good, actually nothing can stop us the next three World Cups.”
He wants to watch the game first, but he also believes that the team has a positive trend.