Before the World Cup second round against Sweden: The New Peace of Silvia Neid – Tagesspiegel

13:34 clock From Inga Radel

Women’s Soccer Germany coach Silvia Neid adopt unfamiliar loose in their last World Cup. That has a lot to do with the experience it has gathered in the home World Cup four years ago.

What Silvia Neid missing, could see the whole German public four years ago. In the film, the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, there is a scene presented in the goalkeeping coach Michael Fuchs of Germany coach a shirt for his birthday. It bears the inscription: “serenity”. That was still in the preparation for the World Championships at home. A few weeks later eliminated envy and their national team already in the quarter-finals. And ever since it became clear: envy had failed also to their lack of looseness

Now, four years later, it occurs for the last time at a World Cup as national coach on.. Perhaps the 51-year-old dispute on Saturday in Ottawa in the second round against Sweden (22 clock / ARD and Euro Sport) even their last game in this function. Should the German players lose, the qualification for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as one of the three best teams from Europe would be missed. And then her designated successor Steffi Jones would probably earlier take as only 2016. But all that does not seem to burden envy. . In Canada, it occurs quite differently than in the home World Cup

When asked how she was doing, she said at a news conference in Winnipeg unusually open: “Thanks for asking, I’m very good , I enjoy every day. “Sure was also the tournament somehow stress, envy said. “But is it really so that I all enjoy a lot more, and that every day. I feel here absolutely no pressure, only joy that I get to work with such great players. “

envy even flirted with the journalists. And they verplapperte to who will let you play from the start in the final group game against Thailand. When asked, but that they otherwise never betray their inventories, she said with a smile: “What’s wrong with me?” You really can be very charming, funny and surprising, if it wants to. So they settled in 2013 at the European Champions Party in Sweden on a wild dance routine with DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach.

But known envy is just another face of 2011. Thin-skinned and snippy she performed as often , She was overwhelmed by pressure to succeed, had for the first time a lot of criticism and quarreled with the then captain Birgit Prinz. From all this doggedness is no trace in Canada. Envy radiates an inner satisfaction – and also on other topics extremely joyful opinion. For Blatter resignation she said: “A woman’s hand did the Fifa well.” Thereupon the Fifa representative ended hastily press

envy transformation is also Ulrike Ballweg not escaped her closest football confidant and co. trainer. Ballweg and envy have already played together as teenagers at SC Klinge Seckach. Both date back to the Odenwald. But Ballweg is quieter and more pragmatic than the sometimes impulsive envy. About her boss, the 49-year-old says, “She has learned from the experience of recent years, has become a lot more relaxed and more sociable.”

The national players, one of which may older they still call “Silv” and the younger ones, say the “woman jealousy” or “trainer”, the new looseness have perceived. “One can even sometimes allow an error and not get the same one on the cover,” the Munich midfielder Melanie Behringer.

In the past criticized envy says every little thing. Even as a co-trainer of the extremely quiet Tina Theune she was known for her pithy speeches. “The Beauty and the Beast” was named the duo back then, prompting jealousy admitted smiling again: “I’m kind of both.”

envy was previously involved in all ten title wins of the German Frauennationalelf – as a player and captain with 111 inserts, as a co-trainer and national coach. In the future, it will work in the background, as head of the new DFB-Scouting department. But before that envy has of course only one goal: “. The third World Cup star is for me a dream”