I'm a fan of Loew, actually. But yeah, it's definitely not a lack of good players, because they have plenty of those. Read some interesting article not too long ago about how the strength in German teams from the past used to be that they could compensate a lack of technique/skills with incredible team spirit and willpower, while this generation seems to be the exact opposite of that. Lots of skill in the team, but until now they have every time sort of broken mentally and then stopped fighting at some point in the big tournaments (twice versus both Italy in Spain in the last 4 tournaments). That's going to be the thing for Loew to tackle before 2014.
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