"With unintended irony, Oliver Kahn compared Schweinsteiger and Co. unfavorably
with Xavi's and Carles Puyol's Spain, even though Löw has explicitly modeled
Germany on the reigning World and European champions' collective approach. Xavi
and Puyol might well be powerful figures in the dressing room. But on the pitch,
they don't have to "lead" anyone. As Arsene Wenger once observed, football has
become far too fast for impromptu team meetings in the center circle. The moment
that Schweinsteiger had to shout at Mesut Özil and Kroos to defend deeper -- as
he did against Sweden, in vain -- Germany had already lost its way badly. "
文章也说到，其实勒夫这种所谓“平的上下级关系”也是许多现代足球教练所推崇和追求的，也就是“collective mechanisms for taking responsibility and rely on the strength of unified purpose rather than one or two all-conquering supermen who bark out orders to eight or nine good soldiers”，有意思的是，顺手把貌似卡恩等人批判了一下：“Unfortunately, tabloid journalists and ex-pros who hark back to an idealized German footballing past that never quite existed, have misinterpreted this program as some kind of dystopian locker-room communism, where no one's in charge and thus no one is in control. This distortion is then used to undermine Löw's main football idea, too.”
文章还说到，其实巴萨和西班牙等球队就是没有所谓强人领袖的球队，这种方式没有什么不好，德国队不但不应该放弃，反而更应该追求这种“Only when it moves, attacks and defends with the silent, instinctive and utterly "unlead" fashion”，只有这样才能达到球队的潜力水平。
后面这个举例是补充例证前面的论点。只说了小猪有没指挥队友，以及整个行为有没帮助到球队（结果是没帮到 in vain），因为敌人的第二次攻击比本方组织防御和排除问题来得更快，而短时间的两次打击击垮了德国（Germany had already lost its way badly）。因为需要有人领导的模式有弊端，所以提倡不需要领袖，仅仅靠默契和团结一心驱动的合作模式
再看了一遍，如果要表达的仅仅是小猪咆哮队友后撤回防时已经来不及了的意思的话，加上in vain这两个字在这里没有任何必要。完全可以说 “The moment that Schweinsteiger had to shout at Mesut Oezil and Kroos to defend deeper -- as he did against Sweden, Germany had already lost its way badly. "
