Joachim Löw is an icon in Germany.
Since 2006 the 57 year old former player Football Coach of the German national football team.
His status as a hero he reached in 2014 when he led Germany to the title in the FIFA-Football World Championship in Brazil beating Argentina in the final. In the same year he was elected as the FIFA Coach of the year.
In the last few days some news were published in Germany and Europe that the Chinese Football Association made an offer to Joachim Löw to take over the Chinese National team.
This makes some people in Germany a little bit nervous ...
“Crazy Chinese rumor about national team coach Joachim Löw ...”, sport1.de, a very well known online-medium noted.
Spox.com, also very popular in Germany and other countries in Europe headlined: “Chinese Football Federation offers Joachim Löw a Monster-contract ...” and Eurosport.de published a story with the Headline: “Joachim Löw – Chinese Federation attracts with 50 Million Euro ...”
Only a few examples about the reactions in Germany and other countries.
As a German national coach Joachim Löw has all the doors open. Also in his home-country he earns a lot of money but more and more people in Europe notice that China tries a lot to get more Know-How and more power in the future in connection with football. Even there is no official reaction from Mister Löw on these rumors and offers you cannot eliminate the option that Joachim Löw or another world famous coach will find his way to China very soon.
Peter Stöger, a former Austrian National Team player and coach and now since two years very successful as a coach from German League Club 1 FC Köln (Cologne) made an interesting interview few days ago: “Sure – in the future to go to China is always an option. Why not ...”