Joachim Löw has been taking a break for more than a year. But now the long-time national soccer coach is ready for a new task. He wants to return to the coaching bench, he announced when he was awarded the Walther Bensemann Prize.
Long-serving national coach Joachim Löw is still toying with the idea of returning to the coaching profession. "I'll let it come to me a bit again. In the summer there were also specific inquiries and offers," said the 62-year-old in Nuremberg. "Whether it's a national team or a club, I'll have to see how it feels and what the requirements are. But of course I still have fun." At the gala for the presentation of the German Football Culture Awards, Löw was awarded the Walther Bensemann Prize.
After 15 years as national coach, Löw left the DFB in the summer of 2021 following the knockout round at the European Championships and has since taken a break. "I wasn't bored," said Loew. "I really had enough time for my family, friends and other things." He was incredibly grateful that he was able to be the national coach for so long. "I'm also proud that I was able to accompany these young men for so long. They have become personalities who have spoken their minds," said Löw, referring to players like Manuel Neuer and Philipp Lahm
According to the organiser, the prize, named after "Kicker" founder Walther Bensemann, has a special position among the football culture prizes: it stands for the concern of the German Academy for Football Culture, football beyond the game as a cultural, historical, social and political phenomenon to understand. According to the academy, this honors people "who have done outstanding things for football". The award winners include Franz Beckenbauer, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Uwe Seeler.
National player Lena Oberdorf won the election for the soccer slogan of the year 2022 in front of the fans of the regional league team Bremer SV. Vice European champion Oberdorf said on the occasion of the successful European Championships in England last July: "Women's football, men's football. It's a football." The fan scene of the regional league promoted Bremer SV had a slogan on a banner at the cup game against Schalke 04 at the end of July: "Choreo is canceled today, they drank the money during promotion!"
