11 FRIENDS in the morning
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New beginning. Not surprisingly, Hansi Flick was introduced as the new national coach yesterday. After all the cheerful dispatches that manager Oliver Bierhoff in particular had distributed in the media in recent weeks, the Bayern coach’s imminent engagement was expected and sparked less euphoria than the general certainty that the best possible solution for all sides has been found. Jürgen Klopp or Julian Nagelsmann might have spread a little more optimism around the national team than the rock solid Hansi Flick. But both candidates still have too much professional plans to retire from club football and move into the second highest state office behind Merkel.
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But Flick is not a stopgap solution, but possibly exactly the right choice for the current situation of the national team. Because neither Klopp nor Nagelsmann would have changed anything about the fact that the German selection will be able to choose from a poorly manageable pool of outstanding talents for the foreseeable future. France, Spain and England currently have an almost wasteful number of young exceptional talent. The German team, on the other hand, is currently paying the price for negligence and undesirable developments in the promotion of young talent.
And that’s precisely why you now need someone who also discovers hidden talents, who has a sense for the pragmatic and who knows how intoxicated teams can be when they see themselves as a community and not just as an ensemble of outstanding individual talent. Hansi Flick can do that, he has not only proven it at Bayern. And so yesterday was a good day for the national team. Finally again.
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Investoren
Something else! Russian billionaires, sovereign wealth funds from the Persian Gulf, Thai entrepreneurs – investing in English football clubs has long been a global pleasure. And now it’s time for two actors, namely Rob McElhenney (“It’s always sunny in Philadelphia”) and Ryan Reynolds from the Marvel smash hit „Deadpool”. The two want to join the fifth division Wrexham, and all because McElhenney is on Netflix in the melodramatic soccer series “Sunderland ‘Til I Die ”looked inside. In the meantime, the two have already invested two million pounds and now announce that they want to show the greatest respect for club traditions, colors and sensitivities of the club. Instead, they now showed a nice message of greeting to the supporters and announced that a documentary about the club would be filmed. Meanwhile, Wrexham fans hardly know what is happening to them. It’s almost like in a movie. But hopefully more successful than in the Sunderland documentary.
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quote of the Day
„It is forbidden to talk about fourth place “
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Fremdschämen
Effenberg and Dopafon. On Sunday it had passed me by, but yesterday it was washed into my timeline again: the bizarre reaction of Stefan Effenberg to a comment by the Bremen managing director Frank Baumann, who was switched on via video, in a double pass. He had asked for understanding for not having fired Florian Kohfeldt earlier and, in this context, Effenberg en passant as one „ordinary player ”. What Effenberg took seriously as disdain and grimly insisted, maybe Baumann used to be a decent player, but for him it was „a bit of an understatement ”. And we sat in front of the television again and were ashamed of each other and thought what larger-than-life complexes Stefan Effenberg must have.
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Trick 17
Trick 17. The goalkeeper of the French first division club Stade Brest delivered the blueprint at the weekend to unsettle even experienced penalty takers in the future. When the referee whistled a penalty in the game against PSG, goalkeeper Larsonneur was not lurking in the middle of Neymar’s directional decision, as he usually did, but positioned himself so far to the right in the box that the yawning empty left corner seemed to be yelling at Neymar: Please, please shoot here! Neymar fell for the pawn trick, did as he was told and shot the penalty. The next time the keeper leans securely on the goal post and has another cup of tea served.
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Have a nice Wednesday
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