Will Ballack be given the boot?
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Coach Jogi Low threatens to ban Chelsea star Will Michael Ballack be booted off Germany team?
Michael Ballack’s Germany future has been left hanging in the balance after Joachim Low threatened to give his captain the boot.
The row started after Chelsea star Ballack (32) criticised the coach about his handling of Germany star Torsten Frings in a interview with the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' newspaper. Ballack slammed Low by saying: “If someone doesn’t want someone anymore, they should be honest about it”. He went on to compare Fring’s fate to that of Oliver Kahn: “It was portrayed as a competitive battle with Jens Lehmann, that in my eyes he could never have won.”
Ballack also spoke out about Schalke star Kevin Kuranyi, who was booted out of the national team after he left the stadium at half time during an international match recently: “I can understand Kevin’s frustration”, said Ballack.
The public feud continued after the German manager retorted to BILD: “It disappoints me that he is playing people politics in this manner.”
In a statement issued through the German Football Association Low added more fuel to the fire: “We could never be accused of not respecting each other as a team. But obviously the idea has got around in our ranks that respect is automatically connected to a guaranteed place in the side. But the personal things and the tactics are two different things that the manager has to take into account before making a decision. No player, not even the captain, has the right to discuss the team line-up or to criticise the choices the manager has made about team members. Especially not to voice his opinion against the coach’s team in public.”
To see more photos of Ballack in action go to BILD.com
Michael Ballack’s Germany future has been left hanging in the balance after Joachim Low threatened to give his captain the boot.
The row started after Chelsea star Ballack (32) criticised the coach about his handling of Germany star Torsten Frings in a interview with the 'Frankfurter Allgemeine' newspaper. Ballack slammed Low by saying: “If someone doesn’t want someone anymore, they should be honest about it”. He went on to compare Fring’s fate to that of Oliver Kahn: “It was portrayed as a competitive battle with Jens Lehmann, that in my eyes he could never have won.”
Ballack also spoke out about Schalke star Kevin Kuranyi, who was booted out of the national team after he left the stadium at half time during an international match recently: “I can understand Kevin’s frustration”, said Ballack.
The public feud continued after the German manager retorted to BILD: “It disappoints me that he is playing people politics in this manner.”
In a statement issued through the German Football Association Low added more fuel to the fire: “We could never be accused of not respecting each other as a team. But obviously the idea has got around in our ranks that respect is automatically connected to a guaranteed place in the side. But the personal things and the tactics are two different things that the manager has to take into account before making a decision. No player, not even the captain, has the right to discuss the team line-up or to criticise the choices the manager has made about team members. Especially not to voice his opinion against the coach’s team in public.”
To see more photos of Ballack in action go to BILD.com
