Defeat has seen pressure mount on Julian Nagelsmann, but former Liverpool manager Klopp \u2013 now Red Bull’s head of global soccer \u2013 played down talk of him taking up the national-team reins.<\/p>\n
Asked as a pundit on MagentaTV what would have to happen to consider the job, Klopp said in quotes reported on Bild: “I haven\u2019t thought about that yet.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve often been in that situation myself as a coach, where a big dream has been shattered.<\/p>\n
“I understand that when people talk about the national coach, my name is mentioned. But it\u2019s not the right moment to talk about it, especially not with me.<\/p>\n
“I have a job that I really enjoy. And as far as I know, it\u2019s not a part-time job. The fact is, Germany was eliminated today, and this is not the moment for me to think about Jurgen Klopp\u2019s future.”<\/p>\n
Germany finished top of Group E despite losing 2-1 to Ecuador in their third match.<\/p>\n
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Kai Havertz had levelled from Julio Enciso\u2019s opener as the round-of-32 clash in Boston finished 1-1 after extra time, with Jonathan Tah\u2019s extra-time headed goal disallowed following a VAR check.<\/p>\n
Havertz and Nick Woltemade both missed from the spot for Germany, Antonio Sanabria and Fabian Balbuena blew two match-winning efforts for Paraguay, before Tah missed the target and Jose Canale settled it on sudden death.<\/p>\n
Nagelsmann vowed he would stay in the role if the DFB wanted him to continue.<\/p>\n
He told a post-match press conference: “I\u2019m not one to run away. It\u2019s not the first time, but it\u2019s been happening for a while now that we\u2019ve been delivering tournaments like this and yes, there are certainly a few basic things that I don\u2019t want to go into now.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m not one of those people who sits here and says, ‘I\u2019m resigning now, just because we\u2019ve been eliminated\u2019. If the DFB wants me to continue then I\u2019ll continue and if they don\u2019t want me to, then they can tell me that.”<\/p>\n
In quotes reported on FIFA\u2019s website, shell-shocked Arsenal forward Havertz said: “I\u2019m a little lost for words. This is my second World Cup and both times it came to nothing.<\/p>\n
“All I can do is apologise. I thought we didn\u2019t play bad football at the last few tournaments, but something was always missing. And it was the same today.<\/p>\n
“We have to take a hard look at ourselves, especially the players, and I\u2019m leaving the coach out of that.”<\/p>\n
Netherlands forward Cody Gakpo broke down in tears after scoring against Morocco just days after the death of his son during pregnancy.<\/p>\n
The Liverpool player scored the opener for the Dutch in their last 32 match against Morocco in Guadalupe after being slipped in by Crysencio Summerville.<\/p>\n
Gakpo then pounced on the ball before smashing a low finish into the net and crouched to the ground as his emotions overwhelmed him before being surrounded and embraced by his team-mates.<\/p>\n
His goal comes only days after he and partner Noa van der Bij announced that their son, who they had named Elijah, had died during pregnancy.<\/p>\n
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\nCody Gakpo points to the sky after his goal<\/p>\n
Van der Bij wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday: “With broken hearts, we share the devastating news that our baby boy passed away during pregnancy.<\/p>\n
“Thank you for your love and support. Elijah Raphael Gakpo, forever loved, forever our son.”<\/p>\n
In a post of his own Gakpo added: “This is an incredibly difficult time for our family. We kindly ask for our privacy and space. Thank you for your understanding.”<\/p>\n
Gakpo’s goal looked to be decisive until Issa Diop levelled one minute into stoppage time, with Morocco then going on to win the tie with a 3-2 penalty shootout win<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp has said it is “not the right moment” to talk about becoming head coach of Germany…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-525585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}