Quote Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie View Post
Spain won Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012 because they were the best team, and they peaked by 2012

Low was Klinnsmans assistant in the 2006 World Cup and it was widely known that it was Low who was the brains of the operation and actually worked with the German football federation to invest in developing players through the academy system which would then get picked by the clubs to use in their youth teams.

The world cup in Brazil how many players in that squad were 30 or more?, take away Mertesacker, Lahm and Klose and you'd struggle to find one. The side that won were an incredibly young side that had been shaped by Low and German football for some time.
We're clearly not going to agree on this, but my take on it is I'm not a big fan, he's got no club pedigree at all and for me hasn't done as well as he could have at International level with the resources he's had.

Spain were outstanding in 2008 but in 2010 they very much laboured to the cup, Germany IMO had at least a better or a slightly better team but ultimately lost in the semi's to Spain, I felt they could have maybe won that one.

Klinsman was the manager in 2006 and ultimately the manager is the one that gets the credit because he's the most important of the non playing staff, so I don't see how you can say Low was the brains, if he had been he'd have been manager at the time not Klinsman.