Vogts: Loss of Bundesliga level due to incorrect coaching training

Darmstadt (SID) According to former national coach Berti Vogts, the international mediocrity of the Bundesliga is due to the misguided training and attitude of his colleagues. Nowadays, possession of the ball is given too much importance, so that in the end there is hardly any fundamental desire to score goals, complained the 1996 European champion coach in his column for the t-online.de portal. "Some coaches have lost sight of what it's actually about. You don't win points by pushing the ball," wrote Vogts. Accordingly, “the problem lies in the clubs’ playing system”, although the will to score goals “has made the Bundesliga strong”. Vogts advised making better use of the trainer conferences. In earlier times, “there would have been heated arguments” at meetings between DFB trainers and club coaches. Such debates "with personalities like Hennes Weisweiler, Ernst Happel or Udo Lattek were always about what is being played internationally and what we want to see." The 1974 world champion also warned against the background of a growing number of matches that were not sold out that “the game has to make the fans happy.” Vogts cited the German World Cup team of his successor Joachim Löw as an example of equally successful and attractive football: "The players always look forward and try to get the strikers into good positions in front of the goal as quickly as possible. That's goal-oriented "That's good football." Adopting basic elements of Löw's game idea "would also make the Bundesliga exciting again," said the former world-class defender. At the moment, however, "the Bundesliga is boring. Bayern Munich would become champions even without a coach." Vogts warns all the more against window dressing on the part of the German clubs: "We claim that we have the strongest league in the world? No, the English have it, maybe the Spanish. Germany is on a level with Italy." Vogts described the “alarm signal when the big English clubs simply give away young players to Germany” as an indication of his point of view. If a player like the Belgian Michy Batshuayi from Chelsea FC is passed on to Borussia Dortmund "just like that" and is "suddenly one of the really big players in the Bundesliga," then "everyone has to be honest with each other."

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Vogts: Loss of Bundesliga level due to incorrect coaching training

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