Famous player: Nashuai said early on that his goal of winning the World Cup might be detrimental to the team. The German team is already under a lot of pressure.

October 10th: The German team will continue its World Cup qualifying journey this week. German star Andres Muller questioned the team coach Nagelsmann in a column written for "Kicker". He doubted whether his early announcement of targeting next summer's World Cup championship was beneficial.

Andres Muller wrote in the column: "What I doubt is that Nagelsmann raised the World Cup championship as a goal, whether this really helped the team."

In 1990 and 1996, Andres Muller won the World Cup championship and the European Cup championship respectively with the German national team. He recalled: "We did not enter the tournament with such publicly expressed expectations of winning the championship. The ambition and firm belief were gradually formed during the course of the tournament."

In the view of the German star, this belief must naturally grow from within the team: "The task of the head coach is not to impose self-confidence - so to speak - on the players through public speeches. Doing so will only increase the pressure in the end - and for a German team, the pressure is already high enough."