“It’s a whole culture that is in danger of getting lost”
“A football stadium is somewhere a home for a lot of people,” says Andreas Mösli, managing director of FC Winterthur, in the football talk “Heimspiel”. That is why he worries that the fans are not allowed to come into the stadium.
22.02.2021
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The corona pandemic has held football in a stranglehold for a year. What has changed in this country since then and what is worrying? Lausanne coach Giorgio Contini and Andreas Mösli, managing director of FC Winterthur, will discuss this in the “Heimspiel” football talk.
Review: On February 23, 2020, YB is a guest in the sold-out Kybunpark. The game ends 3: 3 and offers everything that defines football: pure tension and loads of emotions. It is perhaps one of the most thrilling Super League games in recent years – and above all it was the last big football party in front of fans. Because of the corona pandemic, the plug will be pulled before the next round, the game will be interrupted for 117 long days and nothing has returned to normal – neither in football nor anywhere else.
“The live streams, that’s all well and good, but it’s not the same”
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Andreas Mösli remembers in the football talk “Heimspiel”. When the championship was interrupted a year ago, he initially enjoyed the peace and quiet, “but it got scary pretty quickly. It became existential because there was a lot you really didn’t know ». He doesn’t want to complain, in the meantime a lot is still unclear, but one also has to be humble. After all, they should still practice their profession and at least in the near future FC Winterthur will not have to worry financially, thanks in part to the solidarity of sponsors and fans. If an end is in sight soon, you would get away with it with a black eye: “We will survive this,” says Mösli.
What worries him, however, is the social impact, because football is more than just a sport. In conversations with the followers, he noticed that even “the biggest hardcore fans” were no longer as close. “The live streams, that’s all well and good, but it’s not the same.” You can tell that something is being lost. “A football stadium is a home for a lot of people. They come to the stadium every two weeks and they want their sausage, their beer, their colleagues, they want to cheer, they identify with the whole thing. And that has now been brutally dropped. It’s a whole culture that runs the risk of getting lost somewhere if it lasts too long. “
Lausanne coach Contini on the “new” everyday life
Of course, a lot has changed for the coaches in the Corona year. Above all, he missed the close contact, hugging each other and clapping.
Mr. Contini, what was completely different as a coach a year ago?
The corona pandemic also presents football coaches with new challenges. Lausanne coach Giorgio Contini explains in the football talk “Home game” what has actually changed for him.
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“At the moment you are standing in front of the team with a mask” and of course “all the facial expressions and the motivational aspect are missing”, says Contini. That’s why it has become more difficult to convey the emotions. “As a coach, you may be called upon to push the players in one direction, to push them. Because there is also a lack of adrenaline that comes from outside. ”
Also that you hear every word a trainer says is new. “It is in part that you are frightened. (…) When your children say at home that you have been heard again, that is funny, but if the referee always hears everything, then less so. “
“Heimspiel” – the full-length football talk
The entire program, in which Claudius Schäfer, the CEO of the Swiss Football League, also tunes in via Skype and sends an appeal to the canton doctors, can be seen in the video below.
Home game – the football talk on February 21, 2021
Corona has been holding the football world in a stranglehold in this country for a year. What effects this has, be it sporting or financial, will be discussed in the football talk “Home Game”.
