(FILES) Fernando Carro, CEO of German first division Bundesliga football club Bayer Leverkusen poses after an interview with AFP at the BayArena on February 13, 2025 in Leverkusen, western Germany. Germany's continued World Cup failures are a result of structural, political and cultural problems in German society, Bayer Leverkusen CEO Fernando Carro said on July 15, 2026 during an interview with AFP. Four-time winners Germany were eliminated by minnows Paraguay in the last 32 of the World Cup in June, having crashed out at the group stage of the 2018 and 2022 editions. Having taken over Leverkusen in 2018, Carro helped guide the club to a first Bundesliga title in 2024 alongside lifting the German Cup in the same season. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP via Getty Images)