BSP-26 Germany coaching staff rallies behind hapless Karius

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Germany coaching staff rallies behind hapless Karius

BERLIN, May 29, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Germany’s coaching staff sent a message of
support to Liverpool goalkeeper Loris Karius after his costly errors in the
Champions League final defeat by Real Madrid, goalkeeping coach Andreas
Koepke said Tuesday.

“We have tried to help him pick himself him up and we wrote to him
telling him to keep his head up,” said Koepke, the former Germany
international.

Head coach Joachim Loew, team manager Oliver Bierhoff and Koepke, all
currently in northern Italy for a World Cup training camp, sent Karius a text
message following Saturday’s final in Kiev.

Koepke, a World Cup winner and European champion with Germany in the
1990s, slammed certain extremely critical remarks of the 24-year-old Karius
in the wake of his two glaring mistakes.

“It’s very borderline and totally incomprehensible on the part of experts
with whom I played myself,” said Koepke, notably taking aim at former Germany
star Lothar Matthaeus who called it the “worst goalkeeping display in the
last 20 or 30 years”.

“It’s a very brutal thing to experience,” added Koepke. “I hope he will
be supported by Jurgen Klopp and by Liverpool so he can get through it.”

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