There is a small circus act, and actually he does not like those vain shows. But when Lucien Favre wants, he closes his eyes and is silent. Just as other people listen to music, he hears then the football. Only from noise, like a foot hits a ball, Favre knows whether a pass succeeds or not. Yes, such things as he can, but he does not speak like about it, mostly it’s his friends who tell these stories. Favre, 56, can act with his charming, slightly awkward way still a little shy, almost like before. He is now a seasoned trainer with graying hair, but something in him has remained childlike. “When I see a ball, I have to play with him. So I am. “
Sometimes he waits until the training ground in Mönchengladbach is shut off. Then he juggles for yourself with a football, all alone, half an hour or even longer. When asked if he could juggle better than some of his players, he says: “Yes.” Sometimes you scare nearly as confident of retaining Romand has become in the Bundesliga. Eventually he started himself well to find and even pronounce. It is only a few years ago.
game without fouls
Favre is the most respected coaches from Switzerland and the only one attributed to something almost of genius. Earlier, in mid-2000, there was once such a thing as a religious war, who is the better coach: Favre, the former FC Zurich coach, or Christian Gross, the former Basel coach. Today we know that football was visionary: It is Favre’s style, the fast, flat pass-soccer, wants to do without fouls, perhaps because his playing career was destroyed in 1985 by a brutal attack by Gabet Chapuisat, the father of Stéphane.
Favre says: “I never tell my players:
It is the almost pedantic, which also describes Favre’s son Loïc, who says his father was almost too perfectionist for him. Loïc was a player under Favre late nineties in Yverdon. The team was then called “Yverdinho” because they played so Brazilian; his current team Mönchengladbach was called already “Borussia Barcelona ‘; and also in Zurich Favre’s team played exciting, merely dropped in amazement anyone a name for this style one
Only at Hertha Berlin, the play was rather bland, but that only means actually that Favre is adaptable because his players back then were nothing else. Favre waves mostly from embarrassment when he is told, as the newspapers write enthusiastically about the style of play of his team. But then he asks it: “Did they really write?” He hides the vanity quite good, but it flatters him. As a child he wanted to be in the meadows of the Vaudois peasant village of Saint-Barthélemy always like Pele or Beckenbauer. As an adult, he played with the same elegance, almost like a mixture of the two.
If Favre is a panini image from earlier, he can hands close over his head, “oh, no, oh , no, “he says, perhaps due to his then hairstyle. Or maybe because he scares briefly how long he now has coach is – for 23 years now, first in Echallens at the C-Junior; one of the children at that time was Ludovic Magnin, who later became international. Favre was not even the head coach of this children’s team, he was merely assistant. And strictly speaking, the coaching career began earlier, already at 25, Favre was a player in Toulouse, as the team started training in a kind of self-government. Two weeks led Favre exercises, “and the players were fairly satisfied”
“It will go well”
It is strange sometimes with Lucien Favre. He has this natural elegance and but may act clumsy; he is gentle and yet can be unapproachable; and he can draw someone into your confidence and yet be suspicious. Previously, there were times when he was very distant, even to players with because it was not easy to work with him, perhaps because he felt insecure. His reputation as a skeptic, he detests so, therefore, comes from. But for a doubter he held little more today, that seems over.
Canepa meets Favre
fcl. Seven years ago Lucien Favre had left FC Zurich to Berlin; he left on bad terms with the President Ancillo Canepa. On Wednesday they have first seen in the Letzigrund again, shook hands and exchanged a few words. It was a short but very friendly goodbye. Another former FCZ player, the Mönchengladbach striker Raffael is not mitgereist because of an injury. Absence is also the FCZ-Captain Yassine Chikhaoui – it is locked. 17,000 tickets have been sold, are expected 8,000 fans of Gladbach.
There is a nice character sketch of him, it is in the book described “Low Pass”, and it tells how Favre in Zurich once drove with a jeep and how embarrassing him was. Previously, he had driven a small Japanese car. And there’s the scene, how close he felt the people who had worked in the bar in the old Letzigrund. When Favre left Zurich in 2007 and went to Berlin, she wrote to him via SMS, we will miss him. Not five minutes later came the reply: “Do not worry, it will go well.” These are those moments of closeness that there are always with him, a familiarity that is not played and that is how it almost intimate for someone <. p> It is easy, Favre lay down on the image of a detail-obsessed coach, who always used to own the blinds should have lowered in the team, so players are not blinded by the sun and not have too hot. It tells a former president who says: “Voilà, so is Lulu.” Or you can say about Favre, he was a moralist, because he once was agreed as Yverdon-coach, not to sign a player because of this with the car had run over three red lights. And of course there is Favre’s quiet side, once he leaves it to be very still in a half-time in the cabin. Campaign slogans he does not like, “something everyone can say. Such things do not interest me “To his prudent way fit the walks, which he loves so much and the long journeys by bicycle
But something is missing in these descriptions:.., The Mischievous. It flashes every once in him. Maybe you have to go back this far, as far as Saint-Barthélemy, where Favre grew up as the son of a farmer, were called in a village with 200 inhabitants at that time, in which many families Favre. In the village only team almost Favre played “the goalie, defenders, the left striker, the substitute – almost all were called so,” he once told. Favre is like in nature, but the country work has never really liked him. As a child and teenager he was “terrible” terrible, been, he said. There are stories that you can not believe, if you know him only as a grown man.
The daughter of the teacher
tells his son Loïc how Favre as a student once during the hour’ve put a motorcycle helmet to annoy the teacher; Favre himself has once betrayed him as the Father has put in the barn a filterless cigarette in his mouth, so he is finally quiet. And a little later he was caught smoking in the forest again, with the daughter of the teacher
His wife Chantal he learned as a teenager at a funfair know. it was a long evening, and the next day he had to play with in Lausanne Cup: Favre played poorly. With about 20 years, he decided to change radically, “now I’m a professional,” he said to himself, “and I was almost extreme.”
Favre treat yourself today little more rest than before. Lots of free time, he takes not still, but sometimes he goes to Belgium to the movies; the film “Intouchables” about the friendship of a Tetraplegikers to his guardian shall Favre touches. Or he attended a concert last year, he saw Mark Knopfler, the founder of Dire Straits. But otherwise? After the game in Hamburg he wanted to celebrate his birthday last November, “but we have lost. So you can not celebrate. So I’m sorry. “
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