Soccer – Frankfurt am Main – Nagelsmann apologizes: “I made mistakes” – Bayern
Munich (AP) – Bayern Munich’s coach Julian Nagelsmann has apologized to his Freiburg colleague Christian Streich for his comments on the sports club’s objection to the rating of the game a week ago. “I’m someone who speaks his mind. But I’m also someone who admits when he’s made a mistake. In that case, I made a mistake. I have the great dimension of law, sports law, eV I didn’t see the right thing and didn’t understand it either. I’m honest about that,” Nagelsmann told Sky TV on the sidelines of the Bundesliga game against FC Augsburg, emphasizing: “Sorry to Freiburg, sorry to Christian.”
After the Munich substitution error a week ago, the Bayern coach criticized the sports club after it had lodged an objection to the game rating after the 4-1 defeat against Munich. For this, Nagelsmann received harsh criticism from Streich: “It can’t be that there are three parties. Two make a mistake, not an insignificant mistake. Which is not bad at all. Everyone makes mistakes. I also make mistakes. And afterwards the third person is someone , who is then pilloried by certain people, some by those who made the mistakes. That is an absolute absurdity. We heard that very closely.”
Streich pointed out that the SC board members had to act in this way simply because of their duty of loyalty and personal liability.
Nagelsmann expressed the hope that personally the relationship with Streich would not suffer. He also wanted to call him. The DFB sports court had finally rejected the Freiburg objection.
Meanwhile, Sky expert Dietmar Hamann criticized that Nagelsmann had not been better informed by FC Bayern before the controversial statements. “What about FC Bayern’s communications department? How can that be?” Hamann confirmed the coach as “a sign of strength, a sign of greatness, which I missed in the Bayern boardroom”.
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