Sunday, March 27, 2011

Women's DFB Cup Final: Champions League is a volunteer coach

Recently, Bernd Schröder (68) ever very close to the recognition he had long deserved. But turn is not in it, as simple as the football is life, after all, he had noticed what actually occurs rarely, if ever. As he sat, a bit nervous, was in Zurich in January for the first time the FIFA coach of the year named, Joachim Loew went to World Cup third place on the grid, in two rows in front of him, look, that's that Mourinho, Schroeder smiled at his thoughts, he thought the coach of Real Madrid is a sign to the reverse: "11 million", in which € is the annual salary.

And he, who with Turbine Potsdam won the Champions League and German Cup this, he felt out of place yet again, this here, this was not his world. Nothing on the lapel, nothing, zero, whether Mourinho has ever heard the word before, probably not: volunteers. Bernd Schröder works in Potsdam for free.

And has been for 41 years. And he wants it done otherwise. "Whatever happens, I can not deduct what the salary, I have none." And yet, to Zurich, he wants to return next time, perhaps one will then not in it will pass can, because shortly before closing time this season he wants to get even the optimum: German champion, he is already with the "first women's football club Turbine Potsdam 71 e.

v. ", in the Champions League with a 6-2, he has reached last Wednesday against the French Cup Second FCF Juvisy Essonne to the semifinals. Unfortunately there on 10 and 17 April, a German club are the enemy, but the FCR Duisburg are not intrude on the way to the final in London really.

And Saturday (16.15 clock, ARD), stands in the Cologne stadium cup final against 1 FFC Frankfurt. "The triple was a dream," says Schroeder, otherwise totally unsuspicious of dreaming. A similarly clear, straight character you will hardly find in German football. A man who has defied all attempts and yet all reached.

In his world, which is different. He cares for and protects and keeps alive, for so terribly much has not changed in Potsdam since unification, which meant no big change for Schroeder. The name stuck, evolved from the turbine company sports community of the VEB energy supply, is still played in the Karl-Liebknecht-Stadion, Liebknecht was co-founder of the Spartacus League and the German Communist Party.

Schroeder says he is not in any political party but left democrat, he has after the fall of his friends do not change, their environment, occupation. He still lives in a two and a half room apartment on the panel, fourth floor without elevator, with age, he could just want to look for a ground floor apartment.

Schroeder told a lot and likes of the two societies, in which he grew up. The fact that he was the first 20 years closer, more in line, he makes no secret of it. He has kept his friends, most of his neighbors, Matthias Platzeck was his friend, still more he became Prime Minister. Schroeder was always coach and he had a job for a few years in a power plant that it meant responsibility for 200 employees.

And the football? He could have gone the other way, such as Hans Meyer Eduard Geyer, for example, with two colleagues or former colleagues, he compares himself most likely quite critical. "Meyer and I think that's a different world. The Hans has now made a real halo. "And ten houses and none of it, he envies him not.

"My point was always modest. I've grown accustomed over the years, a lifestyle that I no longer put. We're in a culture with a high degree of honesty, independence and freedom. I was never dependent on anyone of anything, especially not by money or recognition. "If he sees that the Mainz coach Tuchel get a medal or Joachim Loew, the Federal Cross of Merit, he laughs out loud," what for, for a third place "Not that he also wants one," I do not know if I assume this has only been for my club.

" My God, tens of thousands have already gotten the Federal Cross of Merit, "it is not Mark and not specific." No, he does not want to dive into this world that is on profit and rip-off, on superficiality and falseness. Therefore he would like to draw a strict line between his wife and the other football.

"For women, a completely different, its own philosophy. The psyche of the woman is different, their position in society as well. Was "Then take your nice consideration, though some argue again and again for more professional women's football. This whole lack of substructure, the system.

"My responsibility goes deeper. I want to prepare them for life. "But then come to see that here their big stage," the adviser, Pharisees, these self-promoters in the clubs, unfortunately, too many girls can be impressed by it. " DFB president Theo Zwanziger is it a long time very close, "a real friendship between men," when you begin so Zwanziger, at rave about the Women's World Cup in Germany from the big boom that was to be expected, then he kicks him solid on his feet .

"There is no boom, given that women's football has been exhausted, that's not much further up." The system is but one way and not otherwise: "First, everything is highly pushed up and then beaten when it was not so as hoped . So leave the church in the village does not destroy this perfect world are, the girls model, just as they deserve and need.

"Why is the women's game should suddenly come so different than before? Take a group of soccer players, male or female, and you always have such a cross-section of society out there. "We have the stupid and the clever, beautiful and ugly, lazy and industrious." Why this should be different simply because they can play football? Schroeder protect their world as a habitat, if only because he sees where men's soccer tends.

Why he's never gone the way as Meyer? He does not preach water and drink wine. "With those it's already at least the whiskey. A false world. A world without role models. If you 20 million will be put off, why they should not take as a player? But this is a social problem that we have. "Downright terrified Bernd Schröder evaluates the recent developments in the Bundesliga," hypocritical, greedy, hypocritical.

" Felix Magath, who are powerful in any club changes the bags, possibly several times, "I just shake my head. As Christoph Daum, eh not a paragon of honesty, suddenly reappears in the middle, like Armin Veh dives in Hamburg, what kind of a fake world that is not more football, that's greed and dishonesty, the football only provides the stage to " .

Before all that Schroeder wants to protect his girls. Yes, he says: "I am a social critic. One has to be yes. "Credibility is a little go his way, in fact, he was in front and as many behind, then he is satisfied, all he needs. "I know the Hans Meyer, with its worldwide laughing my ass off about it." But he can not do everything else, he will not.

Turbine Potsdam 40 years, "it's like a gift from God for me." Not once has he asked for a contract, it applies to him the spoken word. On leaving, he says: "You know what. I'm on the way out, as there are in the world, only two or three" If at all.

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