{"id":1129873,"date":"2026-08-04T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:15:18","slug":"he-was-sorry-oliver-baumann-reveals-julian-nagelsmann-apology-over-world-cup-axe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1129873\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He was sorry&#8217; &#8211; Oliver Baumann reveals Julian Nagelsmann apology over World Cup axe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to various media outlets in Seefeld, Austria, amid Hoffenheim&#8217;s pre-season training camp, Baumann disclosed details of his direct conversation with Nagelsmann, who has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/officially-juergen-klopp-to-coach-germany-until-the-2030-world-cup\/blt96c706f375161696\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\">replaced by Jurgen Klopp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the bitter decision, Baumann revealed: &#8220;He [Nagelsmann] was sorry about how everything turned out in the end. I spoke with Julian ten days ago. We had already agreed to talk on the phone. Then we talked for almost an hour. I told him everything that was important to me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, it was hard to swallow. I had this big goal. But I managed to give the team a lot of energy [from the substitutes&#8217; bench]. I think I laid the foundation from my side so that nothing stands in the way of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to various media outlets in Seefeld, Austria, amid Hoffenheim&#8217;s pre-season training camp, Baumann disclosed details of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1129874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,242720,250402,269640,1514],"class_list":["post-1129873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-j-nagelsmann","tag-m-neuer","tag-o-baumann","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}