Out of favor Frings blasts Loew

(GSM) – Werder Bremen midfielder Torsten Frings blasted Germany coach Joachim Loew following his inspiring performance for his side’s 4-2 win over VfL Wolfsburg.

Loew, who was in the stands at the Werder Stadion to watch Mesut Ozil, has already excluded Frings from his plans.

Frings criticised the coach for ending his international career several months ago by saying he prefers to look at younger players such as Ozil and Marko Marin in his position.

“I am already through with that issue,” said Frings. “I can play as well as I want, but it doesn’t interest anybody anyway.

“We all know that to play in the national team, the way you perform has nothing to do with it anyway.”

Frings, who has been capped 79 times for the national team, was told late last year that he no longer figured in Low’s plans.

That decision effected in his retirement from international football.

And while Loew seems to be reconsidering his decision to drop Schalke striker Kevin Kuranyi, Frings does not expect to be given the same treatment.

“We are not in a dream world,” he told Sky television. “We are in the here and the now and the fact is, I am not allowed to play (for Germany) anymore.

“My hopes of playing at the World Cup have already been taken from me.”

His coach Thomas Schaaf has not given up hope, however, and believes Loew would be wrong not to reconsider Frings if he is pondering reinstating Kuranyi.

“You can see how fantastically he has played in the second half of the season and he can’t do more than what he is doing,” said Schaaf.

“If the situation were to change again, then I would be very happy.”

Bremen’s win lifts them up to third place above Bayer Leverkusen and on course for a place in the Champions League next season.

“We have now overtaken Leverkusen and we want to defend this third place now,” added Frings.