Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Column, "Off": Wolfsburg dares champion experiment with Littbarski

No sooner was the news in the world, she gave birth already desires. "Litti ', please see our strikers to bring the dribble," pleaded one VfL fan who wants to have allegedly used to be played even against Pierre Littbarski (51), in the forum of a newspaper in Wolfsburg. Big name, big hopes - it's the old reflex.

In the Bundesliga again incarnate world champions trained by 1990 after the British experiment in the Volkswagen city has failed. Steve McClaren has led the former champions, under the supervision of Dieter Hoeness at the outermost edge of the relegation zone, and before they fall down now, together with its VW-million in a backpack like their last Hoeness club Hertha BSC, the manager still open quickly the emergency parachute.

It is always risky: The world champion principle is no longer en vogue - at least since failed in April 2009, Jürgen Klinsmann at Bayern Munich, the club manager let the fingers of our idols. You're no longer the youngest and apparently not at the tactical level, they are still with sweeper and man-marking was raised.

And when it happened somewhere in one of the discussion is at once an action against its alliance obligations. Lothar Matthäus tell you a thing or two about it. Even Klaus Augenthaler - now in Unterhaching - or Andy Brehme - not even in Unterhaching - are not in demand in the league, which they once made large.

Perhaps because of them the same wonderful things are required, to which they were capable of as a player. But the fact is: The World Cup winning coach statistically only 39.7 percent of its league games (so far 120 of 302), and a title no one has taken - in this country that is. They create only in Austria and Japan, Guido Buchwald, for example.

Pierre Littbarski is now the sixth, who made it to the Bundesliga. It was a long start-up: In Leverkusen, he was ten years time assistant at Bayer team, then he could try your hand at second division club MSV Duisburg. He flew for 15 months with the stigma that he was disloyal to the board of directors had, MSV used only as a springboard and nothing improves the training ground outside the fences.

His fate is typical of the ideal of our World Champion: On all other continents, they are skilled workers suffered more than at home when they are called not just Rudi Voeller. Otherwise it is back Rent: Olaf Thon just volunteered at VfB Hüls, fifth league, eighth. Pierre Littbarski has brought in 20 years, 20 moves behind him and knows more about Asia and Australia than in Wolfsburg - especially since he lives in Brunswick.

And to give the truth be told, he owes his job is probably less of its glorious past as the fact that he was right there. For just out the world champions are, the more sought after, the assistant coach.

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