{"id":104436,"date":"2025-10-12T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104436"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:25:23","slug":"julian-nagelsmann-denies-he-badmouthed-northern-irish-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/julian-nagelsmann-denies-he-badmouthed-northern-irish-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Nagelsmann denies he &#8216;badmouthed&#8217; Northern Irish football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>German national team head coach Julian Nagelsmann has responded directly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/michael-oneill-hits-out-at-julian-nagelmann-ahead-of-northern-ireland-germany-re-match-in-belfast\/\">the recent criticisms of Northern Ireland&#8217;s Michael O&#8217;Neill.<\/a> Nagelsmann&#8217;s team boarded a flight to Belfast on Sunday ahead of a crucial World Cup qualifying fixtures against O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s <em>Nord Iron<\/em>. Nagelsmann, in his own mind at least, bought to set the record straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nagelsmann found himself in hot water during last month&#8217;s international break after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/northern-ireland-pundits-pummel-julian-nagelsmann-after-arrogant-post-match-interview\/\">he made some arrogant comments about the state of Northern Irish football.<\/a> As soon as his team completed their 4-0 win over Luxembourg in the first of the October international break&#8217;s qualifying fixtures, Nagelsmann attempted to speak more respectfully of his upcoming opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>They&#8217;re a feisty team,<\/em>&#8221; Nagelsmann said of the next nation his squad is due to face whilst speaking at the Friday post match press conference. &#8220;<em>And then in Belfast with the fans, who are very emotional. It&#8217;ll be a different ball game than today.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There were some talk that I had badmouthed Northern Irish football, but I didn&#8217;t,<\/em>&#8221; Nagelsmann added as he prepared to board a plane bound for the Isle on Sunday &#8220;<em>I clearly stated that the long balls they play are extremely difficult to defend against.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bundestrainer Julian Nagelsmann used a Sunday press event to try and set the record straight concerning some comments he made against Northern Ireland during the September international break.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3418,570,798,3554,754,1028,752],"class_list":["post-104436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-die-mannschaft","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup-qualifying","tag-germany","tag-julian-nagelsmann","tag-luxembourg","tag-michael-oneill","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104438,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104436\/revisions\/104438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}