English Premier League leaders Chelsea have refused to allow Michael Ballack to travel to Germany to meet coach Joachim Loew for crisis talks which could determine his international future.
The London club's coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said that with Ballack still recovering from surgery on his feet, the player will stay in England to continue his fight for fitness.
"Ballack plays for Chelsea. If Loew wants to talk to Ballack I invite the coach to come here and stay with us for one or two days and talk to him," said Scolari. The German football federation (DFB) confirmed that Chelsea had told them of their decision.
"We have a received a fax from Chelsea informing us that the club will not allow Ballack to go to Germany for health reasons," DFB spokesman Harald Stenger told the SID news agency. Loew wants to meet Ballack after the Germany skipper claimed the coach didn't show enough respect and loyalty to his senior players. Earlier Friday, Bayern Munich coach Jurgen Klinsmann told Ballack to apologise for his damning criticism of Loew.
"Every discussion between a senior player and the coach should happen behind locked doors. But Ballack does not seem to adhere to a code of conduct anymore." Matthaus added: "He runs everything past the media. The trust in him has been lost."
The incident began on Tuesday after Ballack told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that: "Experienced national players deserve at least some respect and loyalty. Ballack did go to the media for attention and did breached the team's code of conduct. Ballack made the mistake to reach for attention instead of talking to the people he was having a problem with. Now whether one person has right of way, its truly hard to tell since everything is all twisted.
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