BERLIN – Joachim Löw is interested in a return to coaching, four years after stepping down as Germany helmsman, preferably at another national team and possibly at the 2026 World Cup.

Sport Bild said in a report published yesterday that Löw, who turns 65 next week, can only see himself as a national team coach, and not in charge at a club at this time.

“If there’s one thing I can fall back on, it’s a lot of experience at tournaments,” he said.

The 2014 World Cup winner struck similar line in an interview with Kicker sports magazine.

“There have been a few offers in the past two years, but I didn’t have the feeling that I was burning for it,” Löw said.

“But I will look into exciting options. I have experience with national teams, and in preparing a team with a vision over two years for a tournament.”

Löw was Germany assistant coach under Jürgen Klinsmann 2004-2006, and then head coach 2006-2021. He won the 2014 World Cup, reached the final at Euro 2008, came third at the 2010 World Cup, and was a semi-finalist at Euro 2012 and 2016.

His last engagement as a club coach was at Austria Vienna in 2003-04.

Löw admitted in the Kicker interview that he should have resigned after Germany’s first-ever World Cup group stage exit in 2018 in Russia.

“I should have cleared the way for someone who comes up with new ideas and makes a clear cut with the golden generation,” Löw said.

He said it took him some time to digest disappointing results in his final years as Germany coach, but that he was also not in a hurry to return.

“I don’t have the pressure of a young coach who always has to move on quickly,” he said. 

-Nampa/AFP