These practical clothing does not fit on to Pep Guardiola. The Star-coach of FC Bayern takes place on match days to elegant: coat, shirt, trousers, patent leather shoes. What does he want with all-weather jackets of his personal sponsor?
After starting the summer he can possibly use. This week the Catalans visited the state of functional clothing company in the world’s biggest sports fair ISPO in Munich. In July Guardiola changes probably to Manchester City, and the weather on the island is not just Caribbean. “I’m save. The have the right products,” he says about the Jack manufacturer.
Guardiola is more than a coach. He is a brand. And above all, a businessman, a marketer of himself. Because include such trips to. Its core task, Bayern lead to titles, has become much more difficult since last weekend. His defender Jérôme Boateng falls with a muscle bundles crack adductor of around three months. The starting point for Guardiola and his team in the Mission Triple has changed dramatically especially, but not only because in the past few days. Four weeks before the first knockout round first-leg of the Champions League at Juventus.
Based on the strong performance in the first round and the large cadre were the Bayern as favorites to win the Champions League with Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain. The mood among the people of Munich was good, because they survived the training camp in Qatar very well and without injury. And then: defeat in single test at Karlsruher SC, missing offensive actions at the opening victory of the second half against Hamburg, the Boateng-injury and a discussion about the training method Guardiola and its handling of physiotherapists and team doctors. Experts see the success of Bayern in danger
Former international Dietmar Hamann from 1993 to 1998, the Bavarians said “Spiegel online”:. “The . is a very big loss Boateng is the leader who holds the defense of Munich His failure could even make the league exciting again Bayern will Boateng sorely miss -… in the Bundesliga and in the Champions League “
The club bosses have resolved to remain calm. You know who has the ambition to make it into the final of the Champions League, must be able to compensate for the failure of a service provider. Just when the squad is worth around 615 million euros. A rethinking of the goals for the season does not exist, says the club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Until recently it was always wondering where all the stars to play. Now should be the risk that everything collapses? The club management is too fast. However, even with them the problem in recent years is quite bitter remembered. In the decisive stage of the season the Munich missing important players, last year the offensive Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben. Captain Philipp Lahm is worried: “Jerome fails, very hurt us, we know how it was two years ago when so many players were injured when one then encounters the best teams in Europe, then it will be difficult…”
Alaba and Alonso also candidates for the central defense
Guardiola have to rebuild his defense. And maybe even change his game plan. Another possibility is a back four with Rafinha on the right, David Alaba and Holger Badstuber at left and Javi Martínez in the center of defense. Badstuber and Martínez have been so hardly played together. Alternatively Guardiola let you play with a three-man as he already did in the past few years every now and then. For the central defense and Alaba and Xabi Alonso are eligible, both came to this position already used.
Badstuber was last multiply injured. Lahm said after the HSV game, one must give his colleagues time. Now Badstuber is needed more quickly than expected. Because the Munich to Medhi Benatia can not hope normally. The committed in the summer of 2014 for around 30 million euros from AS Roma Moroccans is one of the few transfer flops of recent years and repeatedly violated.
Currently, it falls with a muscle bundle of crack. He is to return within the next two weeks – but he is vulnerable. The defense is the problem area of Bavaria: Juan Bernat and Rafinha also lacked recently. Offensively Guardiola should probably forego at least until February to Mario Götze and Franck Ribéry.
buying a defense counsel in the ending on Monday at 18 clock transfer window closes Rummenigge made. The board boss says: “There is no good player, who is in the market and emergency solutions bring an end of the day not Accordingly, we will not do anything if there had been something in the market, what the quality of Bayern justice… would have, we would have dealt with it. I recommend now, not to lament, but to trust Holger Badstuber, Javi Martínez and Medhi Benatia and support. “
A central question in Munich is currently: How fit is the team? And what percentage have Guardiola and the medical department at the many injured? Boateng bundle plan is already the 14th muscle injury while champions this season. Even the players is this accumulation a mystery.
“UEFA and FIFA are in demand”
Guardiola had last live with the accusation that he leave too little and not train hard enough. The 45-year-old resists. The team train good and hard, the public could not tell. Rummenigge sees the debt with the federations FIFA and UEFA, the players are unable to cope with the many games
He says. “The UEFA and FIFA are in demand to reconsider the quantity and the quality of their international matches. We have more than 25 years, an increase in international matches and competitions. That is a fact. ” It has come the time to relieve the clubs. And Rummenigge warns the German Football Association (DFB): “In the debate about Boateng I hear only the DFB, German Football Association, EURO I must say loudly and clearly:.. I recommend the DFB to hold back here clearly”
If not – what happens then? “Otherwise there will be with Bayern stress Bayern is the contractual partner of Jerome Boateng and has so that the air sovereignty -.. And not the DFB Mario Götze has injured four months ago in an international match, is not yet back to the present day available. We have 2014 after the World Cup be without five months on Bastian Schweinsteiger. The associations must take into consideration the health of the players. “
is actually evaluate it hardly serious, whether the training control Guardiola is faulty. He can usually work behind closed doors. Earlier this week, the team completed performance tests. Many players also work after the units still individually. This they did in the past, however, in other clubs, this is also common. Because the relationship between the coach and the doctors and physiotherapists in other clubs is better, Guardiola will remain the discussion.
hope for the new season Bayern on a return of former team physician Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt. The 73-year-old is invited to act in an advisory capacity, according to “Sport Bild”. Müller-Wohlfahrt had stopped work for the champions after a dispute with the sporting leadership by April 2015 after about four decades, in his office in the center of Munich, however, continue to treat many Bayern stars who come privately to him, this week also Boateng. The Bavarians have spoken with Müller-Wohlfahrt. The physician is evidently willing to help the club. Once Guardiola is no longer there.
And probably works with rain-resistant jacket in England.
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