Friday, February 18, 2011

Professional Education: Schalke Draxler as a model for German talent

After returning to the big game must Julian Draxler, 17, in his old life. On Tuesday (20.45 Clock, Sky), the midfielder comes with FC Schalke 04 on even in the second round of the Champions League at Valencia, will see millions of TV viewers. On Thursday, he is sitting on the bench - in the classroom.

This Draxler wanted to no longer go to school. His coach Felix Magath had advised him whether the good performance to focus on football and let Draxler absence. What he apparently did not know: In North Rhine-Westphalia, the education is compulsory until 18 Age, so it must Draxler soon learn math formulas, and English vocabulary.

Like it or not. The case has triggered a debate during the week: Are football players to sacrifice their education to the sport? Education Minister Annette Schavan (CDU) stepped in and told to think of the time after the kick, soccer legend Guenter Netzer warned: ". There is no guarantee for a sporting career," What the VDV most makes: Most players learn any job they can exercise to the career.

"About 20 percent are continuing, the most of a correspondence course. There are too few, "said Baranovsky. According to projections from the association, two-thirds of the professionals in Germany, a high school diploma. A vocational training but only 20 percent. Exceptions are international defender Marcel Schaefer from VfL Wolfsburg Palikuca and Robert, former defender for FC St.

Pauli Fortuna Dusseldorf. Both studied sports management, Palikuca now works in marketing at Fortuna and says from personal experience: "Too many players leave on the fact that it will somehow go somewhere. That's dreaming. "Many want to be a career coach or manager of a club. Few do it, says Baranovsky.

In his report to heads of families who are financially after the track "is the water up to his neck" and discuss all night long with their loved ones, how to make money. "Before, after the career professionals have often hired at a Union League Club and a sponsor of the association made an education.

This is today but hardly because the companies now make higher demands, "said Baranovsky. The VDV them is therefore a career coach. This provides information on visiting teams and earning opportunities and degree programs. That it is possible despite the tight game plan is to build a second income, Reiner Wirsching has demonstrated.

He played in the 90s for the 1 FC Nuremberg and studied "the way" medicine. The surgeon and sports medicine today has a private practice in Schweinfurt. But a study, the reputation of a football player at his club also damage white Baranovsky: "Some players have reported that they are isolated from colleagues in the team viewed obliquely, because they read textbooks.

Not everywhere in clubs, it is often seen that form on the player. Sometimes it is said that they were therefore not sufficiently focused on football. "VDV and the league want to change it. Talents will no longer face a choice: soccer or education? A very special model of the SC Freiburg has developed: the team bus of the C-youth is at weekends into a mobile classroom.

Your co-trainer and physiotherapist Daniel Oliver Nobody Junker are also teachers at the Freiburg Angell School. At away games they check the homework of the 14-year-old and get the player to request the material individually to the front. "They move very well and all want a good degree," says Junker.

As a control, the players must submit copies of their products. If a student bad grades, he can only train even less and receive tutoring. Similarly, it runs in the 1st FC Köln: The club is cooperating with the same five schools. The schedule of the players depends on the training sessions, they can be given for courses.

The Gelsenkirchen-based comprehensive school field Berger, Julian Draxler visited from next week, a sports-focused. "If our youth internationals are traveling it may be that they write their exams in Namibia," said Arthur Preuss, football coordinator of the school. He was pleased that Draxler soon is a student.

And quotes a sentence of talent, says on his website: "With a good high school I had all the options. That's what I'm trying. "

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