The losses of contact then were brief, never lasting more than a day or two.
On returning, he started three games, never lasting 70 minutes, and injuring his heel in the third.
He has also shown he cannot do it very long, never lasting more than four seasons in stop.
In recent weeks, Ms. Barthelemy's mother, Lynn, has spoken about how the calls, never lasting more than three minutes, terrorized a family desperate for clues to Melissa's whereabouts.
This was mountain scenery without the unremitting physical effort of the Pyrénées and the Alps: dank forests of beech and pine, delightful lakes, half-timbered houses, and one twisting hairpinned climb following another, but never lasting for too long.
His CV was not particularly impressive, including spells at Stuttgart, Fenerbahce, Karlsruhe, Adanaspor, Tirol Innsbruck and Austria Vienna, never lasting more than two seasons at one club, but Klinsmann had met Löw at a coaching course years before and Löw had made an impression.
