 He was surprisingly selected for the World Cup squad in favour of Bayer Uerdingen's Holger Fach, who had been the expected pick of coach Franz Beckenbauer as Klaus Augenthaler's understudy.Steiner was not recalled again after the tournament, where Germany defeated Argentina in the final and he didn't play a single minute.Steiner was commonly quoted in Germany as stating in a talk show that homosexuals were "too soft" for playing football.