How do the football coaches from the Starnberg district keep their teams fit until September? There are different approaches to the clubs.
District - patience is a virtue you can despair of. Franco Simon looks back on the past one and a half months and feels like a swimmer who wants to cross the Atlantic, but has just put his toes in Lake Starnberg. "I don't have a plan, I don't want to have a plan either," says SC Pöcking-Possenhofen football coach. He still doesn't know how to react to the Bavarian Football Association's (BFV) decree.
He must keep his team in good shape by September 1st, provided that the politicians from the Bavarian State Chancellery and the Federal Chancellery then raise their thumbs and approve the resumption of play. "I find it catastrophic if football should now do what it did the last two for four months," said the district league coach.
Simon's temperament on one side, Öhler's calm on the other
Perhaps it is Simon's temperament that he cannot calm down because of the emotions. In any case, Bernd Öhler has got rid of that, who since the lockdown given the corona pandemic has not only gained in serenity, but also in weight. "The good weather favors a good glass of wine after sunset," admits the TSV Erling-Andechs trainer.
Because the sun has been shining very often in the past few weeks, the coach of the A-Classics must now demand what he demands from his players. "Everyone will be so reasonable that they maintain their basic condition." Öhler has no choice but to hope for the voluntary self-regulation of his footballers, which he knows that it works rather poorly for him.
Kammerlander appeals to the will of the players
"I can only appeal to the will of the players," says Christoph Kammerlander. But somehow the player trainer of TSV Perchting-Hadorf also senses that the solid basic condition that his team developed in February and March during the preparation is slowly melting away. After all, he trains footballers and not marathon runners.
"There is nothing in the textbooks"
The repertoire of the trainers, however, hardly offers any other alternatives than panting through the woods and fields. "There was nothing in the textbooks of a five-month break," says Michael Lelleck, referring to his coaching training. After all, the SV Planegg-Krailling coach recommended his kickers to "do something with the ball at home", which his club has now systematized.
"We will invest in apps," reveals Ayhan Kurt, head of the division's division. He has decided that his 32 trainers, from e-youth to the first team, now supervise individual training sessions via screen and tablet.
"Four weeks of preparation are enough for me"
For Öhler, who enjoys a noble drop at the Ammersee, this means too much stress. As is so often the case, he trusts his skills as a savior at the last minute. "If I have four weeks of preparation, I will get the boys on the same level as before Corona," he says. Physically this may not be a problem, mentally it is a huge challenge.
Because after the tough puzzle games and sweaty efforts of the third season preparation then the teams do not expect a full season, but only a core program, should it go on at some point, as everyone hopes.
"How can I interrupt a season for ten months for nine match days?" Franco Simon comments the decision of the BFV rhetorically. He wonders how he should give his players the motivation to play a few games in the fall that are as far from the original season as Lake Starnberg of America. He doesn't have a plan in his pocket, but he still has to swim.
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