Before the 2018 World Cup, national coach Joachim Löw removed Sandro Wagner from the squad. A reason for the then Bayern striker to resign. And a decision that he probably wouldn’t have made today.
ex-national striker Sandro Wagner regretted his decision before WM 2018 to have resigned from the DFB team. The 34-year-old told this in the Podcast by the brothers Toni and Felix Kroos, “Simply Luppen”.
“I should have kept my feet still and waited for the tournament. But that’s not me. That wasn’t me at the moment,” said today’s player DAZN-Expert. At the moment when him Joachim Löw announced the disembarkation, Wagner remembers very well.
“It was a situation in which I didn’t feel valued at all. Then I thought: I can’t look in the mirror anymore if I stick with it. But I could have solved the way in a cooler way,” he summed up.
Wagner as an expert to Qatar?
The former international also said in the podcast that he was flirting with another assignment as a TV expert at the World Cup in Qatar. “I still have to clarify with the boss at home whether I can escape to Qatar.” He was “not 100 percent sure yet, but the offer would be there”.
The former center forward, who, among other things, with the FC Bayern 2019 got the double and scored five goals for Germany in eight international matches, was already in front of the camera at the last European Championship for ZDF. Wagner also works as an expert for the sports streaming service DAZN.
“I have a brutal passion for this game. It’s a hobby for me,” Wagner said of his expert role, which he enjoys a lot. “I can escape my everyday life as a coach and family man a bit by maybe going to a stadium every few weeks,” he said, and spoke of “huge added value” for his job as a coach. Wagner has been in charge of the regional league since the start of the season SpVgg Unterhaching as head coach.