(FILES) Bayer Leverkusen's CEO Fernando Carro looks on ahead the German first division Bundesliga football match between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and 1. FC Union Berlin in Leverkusen, western Germany on October 4, 2025. 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 Pau BARRENA / AFP via Getty Images) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO