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Last month, before the start of the Women’s World Cup, Birgit Prinz was the face of the German team and the talk of the country. She stood on the verge of becoming the first woman to score in five World Cups, with the hope of winning the championship game scheduled to be played in Frankfurt, her birthplace and the home of her professional team.
A week into the tournament, Prinz is still the talk of the nation, but no longer in the way she or anyone here envisioned. Fairly or not, she is bearing the blame for the lackluster performance of Germany, the defending world champion, in two close victories. Her play has been leaden, and she has yet to score. Prominent analysts have called for Coach Silvia Neid to remove her from the starting lineup.
Headlines in German newspapers ask how to solve “the Prinz Problem.” One announcer on public television asked whether she would be “demolished” by a benching.
On Saturday, Günter Netzer, one of Germany’s most influential soccer commentators, wrote a column in the tabloid Bild, the largest-circulation daily in the country, calling for her to be pulled from the lineup.
“An absolute world-class player must also show greatness in defeat, personal defeat as well, and after her performance, she has no claim to stay on the team anymore,” Netzer wrote, comparing her to the men’s captain, Michael Ballack, whose departure from the team was marked by public recriminations. “She has to ensure nevertheless that the team is not burdened by her personal situation,” Netzer wrote.
Prinz, a quiet, serious and private player, is in some ways the main victim of the tournament’s unexpected success. With record viewership comes unaccustomed scrutiny in a sport where professional matches are regularly played in front of fewer than 1,000 people. Few would have thought that a national debate over a player on the woman’s team would be possible, certainly not at this volume.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung, a top daily newspaper, published an article about Prinz over the weekend with the headline “Prinz Is Steaming,” saying she was enraged after being taken out early in the second half of last Thursday’s 1-0 victory over Nigeria.
“It’s not about me, and you can ask me five more times and you won’t get any other answer,” Prinz told reporters after the game.
That has not stilled the speculation by the news media, including scrutiny of her body language leaving the field Thursday (bad), analysis of a playful toss of a ball at a fellow player in a recent training session (good) and the fact that she did not sing along to the national anthem before Germany’s last game (very bad).
The public scrutiny has much to do with the weight of pretournament expectations, which will make anything less than a championship seem like a failure. The sports news media in Germany are also quite at home blowing a player controversy out of proportion and then meticulously overanalyzing it.
The German team has already ensured that it will advance to the quarterfinals; it would win its group with a victory Tuesday against France.
A single goal by Prinz against France would probably put an end to the discussion.
She may need to score if she does not want to see one of her records eclipsed. Prinz is the leading career scorer in women’s World Cup history with 14 goals, but the Brazilian star Marta is closing fast, with 12 goals in only 12 World Cup games.
There is a sense of finality to the changing of the guard, whether Prinz breaks out of her slump or not. As she supplanted the American Mia Hamm as the top player in the game, with three straight awards as the FIFA world women’s player of the year from 2003 to 2005, so Marta has eclipsed Prinz with her five consecutive awards.
Prinz will be 34 in October. As is the case with great athletes, her decline seemed to come rather suddenly after a long and successful career. She made her national team debut when she was 16 and played in her first World Cup when she was 17.
Unlike some of the younger players, like midfielder Fatmire Bajramaj, she has declined to talk much about her private life. On her Web site, her personal story includes a moment where it says, “Standing in the spotlight and in the flashbulbs was a learning process for Birgit Prinz,” and that she preferred wearing shorts on the field to a gown at the Zurich Opera House.
“She has been reticent to talk about her private life; perhaps those journalists who would like to discuss her in other terms don’t have that much material to use,” said Eva Boesenberg, a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin who has written about soccer and gender. Boesenberg said it was unfortunate that “at the very moment where she’s become a public figure, all of the coverage is negative.”
Pia Hess, the head administrator for the women’s professional soccer league in the German soccer federation, said she hoped that Prinz had a chance to play Tuesday and score a goal so that the criticism could fade.
“She is the best player Germany ever had,” Hess said. “At this moment, I don’t want to be the coach.”
Jeré Longman contributed reporting.
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