The DFB selection fails despite a 4-2 win against Costa Rica in the World Cup preliminary round. With Oliver Bierhoff as sporting director and national coach Hansi Flick, those responsible are also under criticism. However, the majority of football fans only see a future in one of the two.
The World Cup from the German national football team raises the question of personnel changes at the German Football Association. According to a current Forsa survey commissioned by RTL and ntv, 47 percent of all Germans believe that Hansi Flick should continue to be the national coach despite the early departure of the German national team. 16 percent believe that he is not (or no longer) the right man for this job. A relatively large number of respondents (37 percent) have no opinion on this. A clear majority (59 percent) of those interested in football believe that Hansi Flick should continue to be the national coach.
19 percent of all respondents think that Oliver Bierhoff, as sporting director of the national team, is still the right person for this position. Slightly more respondents (30 percent) think someone else would be a better fit. More than half (51 percent) cannot give an assessment of this. More than half (57 percent) of those interested in football believe that someone else would be better suited for the position of sporting director of the national football team.
Less than a quarter of Germans (23 percent) are annoyed that the German eleven were eliminated yesterday. A large majority (76 percent) of Germans don’t really care. A little more than half (56 percent) of those interested in football are annoyed about the early exit from the German team, while 43 percent of those interested in football are largely irrelevant.
In the opinion of more than two-thirds of those surveyed, the early departure of the German national team damaged the reputation of German football very much (31 percent) or at least somewhat (39 percent). Only a few respondents (15 percent) believe that the early end of the World Cup has no impact on the reputation of German football. Those interested in football in particular are assuming that German football will lose its reputation as a result of the premature end of the World Cup.
The data was collected by the market and opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL Germany on December 2, 2022. Database: 1,006 respondents. Statistical error tolerance: /- 3 percentage points.