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Germany manager Joachim Loew has insisted that the thought of leaving the managerial post has never come across his mind following Germany’s World Cup winning campaign in Brazil.
"I didn't think of stopping for one second," Loew revealed in an interview with DFB’s website. "I didn't extend my contract with the DFB until 2016 to prematurely break it. I simply kept to what we had agreed before the World Cup that we were going to calmly sit down and analyse the tournament as we have done after every tournament.”
He continued, "I can't imagine anything more beautiful than to continue working with this team, to lead them to the European championship in France, to continue to develop the group and each of the players. I'm as motivated as the first day. We celebrated a huge success in Brazil, but there are other objectives that we want to achieve. The 2014 World Cup was a summit but it wasn't a conclusion."
Loew took over the team back in 2006 after having worked as an assistant manager under then-head coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
