As Ottmar Hitzfeld was still the best coach in the world, he envies us sportswriters with the wistful words: “We coaches have to answer questions – I need you to just ask.”
But that’s over.
enter We sportswriters if the coaches nothing comes to mind now the answers, see Gladbach. At least we critics preserve in the local crisis still a clear head and wonder about Lucien Favre. The be tortured day and night, the brain and pokes looking for a solution to the rod in the fog – instead of just reading newspaper
The “kicker” for example. Then the Swiss knew immediately what he is doing wrong. A week ago, after the fourth defeat, advised him the technical body of football, “Favre needs to end the experiments with the formation he was wrong..” They were words against the wall. Nothing has become in Seville and now in Cologne better and stunned puts the magazine after the 0: 1 in the Rhine derby with the accusation of “misguided personnel policy” after and the inability for “proven executives “to ensure the team structure. The mallet the accompanying headline reads: “Favre has to find solutions – and give no mystery.”
How will the Gladbach coach every helping hand. “‘Picture’ analyzes the errors of Favre,” it said last and conclusive was also explained as: “Favre has not managed to build a successor for the disposals of Max Kruse and Christoph Kramer Instead of giving the team a scaffold insecure. he by wild Wechselei. ” In addition, Favre accepts the striker Drmic confidence, to be “tactical confusion” – the guys from the Boulevard and the whole Journaille is stunned. The crisis would be so easy to deal with.
Why does not he do it?
There is it only one explanation: Probably thought Lucien Favre until his resignation on Sunday night still in what we journalists wrote up a few weeks ago, namely the exact opposite – at that time he was the best
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Oh, we were fascinated by this masterpiece of human resources management and the tactical instructions. A lightning fast counterattack football he was playing, it was not longer come with the offside trap, but only with the radar – often played Granit Xhaka the ball already on, even before he had him. A wheel grip as the other, and Favre was in the same breath as Hennes Weisweiler. That he could even be in the case of Guardiola leaving enough for Bayern, we have recently founded as plausible as now our thesis that this crutch makes a mistake after another.
We cleverness Meier know everything, but especially better. Even the unforgotten ARD rate uncle Robert Lembke (“What am I”) has anticipated in his early days as a sports journalist: “The problem with football is that the only people who know exactly how you would play, sitting in the press box . “
But the coaches are recalcitrant. Also in Stuttgart Alexander Zorniger has never really been listening, for example, when a VfB reporters via video within a minute the complete VfB crisis about as stated “fall back to goal, forward enough, and Harnik shoots from three yards over. ” Since the finger was short and concise placed in the wound – but Angry sensed a crisis fundamental rather the malice of a sinister power that puzzling drives their jokes in the background, and said: “Even Lucien Favre, one of the best coaches in the league, then gets into trouble . ” Or Jürgen Klopp, who fled to a similar inexplicable madness into sabbatical.
But with such an abstract causal research we catch football critics of anything, we need scapegoats of flesh and bones that can be nailed to the wall – and regardless of the shaking their Gladbach sporting director Max Eberl (“This is an incredible negative run”) was now just Favre tuned. We sportswriters love the fast truths, we always think only up to the bigger picture of the moment and say to a horse that succession does not win three races:. Go nevertheless times as a dog at the start
Favre followed by Pirates of the good deed. It has all the spoils, and who accomplishes even wonder must always perform miracles. Six years ago, he coached Hertha BSC almost championship trophy, but when he could not replace the same cornerstones Simunic, Voronin and Pantelic, the sorcerer was fired. Then he made the descent mature Glad Bachern a top team, and when he replaced Dante, Neustadter and Reus problems, it said: “Favre has learned his lesson Berlin.” He has replaced even Ter Steegen and Arrango, but the laying on of hands does not work every year, and suddenly we are writing again: “crisis he can not – as it was at Hertha.”
Favre remains surprisingly quiet. Composure he takes towards our superior knowledge. He does not shoot the air rifle as Maradona and makes it not like Jose Mourinho, who like to return just ask: “Did you want to become a coach, and it made it only to sportswriters” One must understand that: So a coach long suppressed to school, cramming the most complicated tactics, takes private lessons in psychology, studying the depths of carbohydrates – but he does not answer in the crisis, while we shake journalists the solution quickly from the sleeves of our dream jobs , absolutely for exercising the following prerequisites rich: a Comprehensive school, an awkward half-education and the right answer to the question of whether a football is square or parchment paper. Who knows, may go out immediately with pen and notepad and explain what is going wrong.
“Favre is unrauswerfbar” says Max Eberl adamantly. Now Favre has yet drawn the consequences and resigned – after “careful consideration and thorough analysis”
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