Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Column, "added time": Bavaria's need is so great that van Gaal remains

photographed When the Säbener street cars at the underground entrance and the arrival and departure times are logged, if Hoeness, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Christian Nerlinger and Karl Hopfner whole Sunday afternoons spent in a confidential round, then usually the last hours of a Bayern coach arrived. The day after the 1-3 defeat of the championship record for Hannover 96, awoke memories of the separation scenario Juergen Klinsmann two years ago.

After the cooling off on Sunday, the novice coach was fired on Monday morning. Jupp Heynckes took over for the last five games of the season, saved second place behind champions Wolfsburg Champions League qualification and handed to Louis van Gaal, who had been hired as a long-term solution.

In the current precarious situation of the Dutch, according to "Bild"-Zeitung, surprisingly, after the third defeat in a week may continue to work. Bayern bosses seem to trust any other coach, to find the way out of crisis. They lack an adequate interim solution as it was late April 2009 Heynckes, who then managed directly from the guest room of the family Hoeneß the dugout of FC Bayern.

"Louis van Gaal will next week sitting on the bench because the Bavarians are no other coach," predicts Udo Lattek, who was sitting two terms in Munich on the bench and celebrated six championships with the club. The final decision to stay van Gaal is to fall at midday after a meeting with the Bayern board of directors.

Honorary President Franz Beckenbauer spoke out in the "Bild" newspaper for the Dutch: "Louis van Gaal has already shown that he is a great coach because he is always dear to me as a short-term stopgap.." In fact, van Gaal has worked in Munich, a notable exception position which could keep him in the job.

The team has internalized his playing philosophy. However, in those days mainly benefit the enemies of the ailments of the wing tongs Robbery, the conditionally prepared defensive interior defense and the lack of competitive fitness in the center of the field. However, a departure from the over 20 months rote acquired possession doctrine, under a new coach would involve great risk.

In five points off a Champions League place are missing from the master record nine game days before the end of the season nerve for a strategic paradigm shift. The usual candidates who have entrusted the Bayern bosses in similar circumstances in the past two decades, the team, there is no longer in question.

Beckenbauer, the Munich as an interim coach in 1994 and 1996 championship to the UEFA Cup triumph led, retired several years ago returned from our day. Heynckes, who currently handles the career of Michael Ballack is with Bayer Leverkusen at least until the end of season under contract.

And Ottmar Hitzfeld has just extended his contract as Swiss national coach until 2014. The coach, who led Bayern to the 2001 date last Champions League success is that leaders in Munich as an example that an expulsion also a great risk involved. Hitzfeld took over in late January 2007 the team after the sacking of Felix Magath a point behind the Champions League places.

At the end of the season the gap was increased to six points. FC Bayern missed the only time in the past 15 years to qualify for the European Champions League. In addition to the interim candidates Andries Jonker, Paul Breitner and the duo Hermann Gerland / Mehmet Scholl on Sunday also DFB sport director Matthias Sammer, the current HSV coach Armin Veh, and former Hamburg coach Martin Jol and the ex-Hoffenheim Ralf Rangnick were under discussion.

Frank Rijkard and Rafael Benitez, had their best years as a coach middle of the last decade in Barcelona, Valencia and Liverpool, were also traded. The long list of usual suspects for a successor to van Gaal reveals the Bavarian Dilemma: At this stage of the season the coaching search is nearly impossible - especially with the demands of the championship record.

The market gives her very little. This is demonstrated by the clubs that had chosen this season for a coaching change. They sat mostly on internal solutions: In Cologne, followed Zvonimir Soldo U23 coach Frank Schaefer, dissolved in Hoffenheim assistant Marco Pezzaiuoli from previous rank in Wolfsburg came to Nick and assistant coach Pierre Littbarski the legacy of Steve McClaren.

Only in Stuttgart, the leaders put on a fresh start with Bruno Labbadia, after the internal solution Jens Keller to replace Christian Gross was not working. And in Mönchengladbach may prove Lucien Favre as a replacement for Michael Frontzeck after his 16 months of unemployment, if it manages to keep a safe believed to relegation in the Bundesliga.

As coach of Hertha BSC Favre came 2009 to the opposing evidence and formed in a championship record time-a second-division candidates. The most spectacular crash of the younger league history had its starting point in the days of the Klinsmann-release. At the time, Berlin was on second place in front of the Bavarians, missed five games after the Champions League places and rose a year later as severed from Table Last in the second division.

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