Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Column, "Off": The bizarre trend of ex-Bundesliga

It always goes crazy in the Bundesliga. That more than half of all trainers to be released in a single season belongs still to the normal craziness of the unknowable holding Bundesliga. That jump-off period without a coach from one club to another is already a bit unusual and outraged the industry itself that Peter Neururer despite everything still has no club compels almost back from respect.

They sank in all the trials and tribulations that to make matters worse, a peculiar trend is the ex. Past the obsession with youth, concept coach without Vita is available at the renewal of job again on the back. For at least three new coaches are old acquaintances in their clubs, and the end of the retro wave is far from sight.

They think in any event, even when bookmaker Sportingbet, and so they offer, given the return of Felix Magath in Wolfsburg, Ralf Rangnick to Schalke and - presumably - Jupp Heynckes' to Bayern this fantasy: Returns master designer Karl-Heinz Feldkamp, 76 years young, back to Kaiserslautern's back seven times the bet.

The variants Hans Meyer to Borussia Moenchengladbach (3.5), Otto Rehhagel to Werder Bremen (3,5), Armin Veh to VfB Stuttgart (5.0) or Jürgen Klopp home to Mainz 05 (7.0) they have in offer. Two other charming visions, however, were overtaken by date: As Christoph Daum is now replacing Michael Skibbe in Frankfurt, can thumb does not move a third time to Cologne, and Dragoslav Stepanovic versa but not back to the Main, which would have at least given eleven times the use .

The Bundesliga can not be surprised about such absurd musings, but a responsibility to act for some time under the motto "Nothing is impossible". It must be noted however, that the old broom handle for in most cases has been a stroke of luck. made presentable this version, no less Hoeness, who as manager and now president of FC Bayern coach brought back five times already and it has never looked back: Udo Lattek managed a second time the title hat-trick.

Also, Giovanni Trapattoni, the players nachweinten 1995 some tears, held hands in 1997, the shell. Ottmar Hitzfeld managed the double in 2008 and Jupp Heynckes in his first return in the spring of 2009 at least still in second place and the Champions League participation. Werder Bremen has never regretted known to have brought back the descent savior Otto Rehhagel, it never has been more successful at the Weser times than in the era of "King Otto".

And 1 FC Kaiserslautern was the second attempt to Karl-Heinz Feldkamp 1991 champion. The list could be extended at will - and the few failures only prove the rule that the former makes sense. Ernst Middendorp was in Bielefeld so often that it had to go so wrong times - his third term ended with the dismissal in 2007 to the relegation zone, although the fans had voted him "Coach of the Century." Even Rolf sheepfold could Bochum 2001 can not be saved.

But this can hold those in power not to succumb to the fascination of familiarity. Christoph Daum has marked this way, a word that belongs to the label this season: "Remembrance of optimism."

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