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The man behind Manuel Neuer - he secured his stay at Bayern Munich

2020-05-20T17:02:45.751Z


Manuel Neuer extends his contract with FC Bayern Munich. Significant part of it has Toni Tapalovic - we introduce the goalkeeper coach.


Manuel Neuer extends his contract with FC Bayern Munich. Significant part of it has Toni Tapalovic - we introduce the goalkeeper coach.

  • Manuel Neuer extends his contract with FC Bayern München * until 2023.
  • The world champion explicitly refers to goalkeeper coach Toni Tapalovic in his reasoning .
  • New had Tapalovic once brought from FC Schalke with the German record champions.

Munich / Tegernsee - Football is often about coaches, presidents and sports directors. For managing directors, sporting directors or sporting directors, meanwhile even for head of or CEOs. They are the focus in the Bundesliga * and in the Champions League .

FC Bayern: Even with Manuel Neuer, nothing works without the staff

In football, however, nothing works without them: physiotherapists, team psychologists, fitness trainers, and even groundsmen, with the ball sacks and tricot suitcases. In most professional clubs, they are more important and have a far greater influence on the team than it may seem at first. 

They are the ones who are there when the head coach crunches. They are the ones who cheer up when others lower their thumbs. They are the ones who always carry out their tasks meticulously - in both success and failure.

Bayern Munich: Manuel Neuer refers to Toni Tapalovic

The importance of the staff in the background has now been underlined by world champion Manuel Neuer. And that with his contract extension at FC Bayern Munich * until 2023.

“It was important to me to continue working with our goalkeeper coach Toni Tapalovic . Now that this has been resolved, I look to the future with great optimism, ” Neuer said in the press release regarding his contract extension shortly before the 27th matchday * and Bayern's home game against Eintracht Frankfurt (Saturday, 6.30pm, here in the live ticker *) cited. 

Tapalovic is the man behind Manuel Neuer , "the genius" behind him, as the double winner once wrote in a portrait. “The goalkeeper I am today is thanks to Toni Tapalovic. He helped develop me and I was able to learn a lot from Toni's active time, ”said  Neuer  at fcbayern.com .

Bayern: Toni Tapalovic declares friendship with Manuel Neuer

"I don't know if there is another relationship with the goalkeeper coaches in the Bundesliga . One look is often enough and we both understand what is meant. This also helps us in certain game situations when you can give one or two tips from the outside. And that's exactly how it should be, ”said Tapalovic  about the collaboration.

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FC Bayern Munich goalkeeper coach: Toni Tapalovic (left), here with ex-assistant coach Robert Kovac.

© dpa / Tobias Hase

The origin of the mutual relationship of trust goes back a long time ago. The 39-year-old was once the new goalkeeper coach in the youth of FC Schalke in his hometown of Gelsenkirchen. 

When the keeper moved from "Royal Blue" to Munich in 2012 , he promptly suggested Tapalovic as a goalkeeper coach on Säbener Strasse - directly to the professionals.

Manuel Neuer helps Toni Tapalovic get a job at FC Bayern

Tapalovic  himself had never made the big breakthrough as a player. VfL Bochum, KFC Uerdingen, Kickers Offenbach, Mainz 05 II - he never got beyond the regional league. 

And then, at the age of 32, after an interview with Jupp Heynckes, he was suddenly responsible for the  goalkeepers in the squad of the big FC Bayern * . A meteoric leap in career - thanks to new ones .

Both had long since become good friends. "Tapa", as the Bavarian stars call him, accompanied his protege at every turn. They work together for hours every week.

Check out this post on Instagram

Keeper training

A post shared by Manuel Neuer (@manuelneuer) on May 6, 2020 at 8:25 p.m. PDT

Also with pleasure in individual training. Neuer recently  posted a video of such a four-eye unit from his garden on Tegernsee around 50 kilometers south of Munich on Instagram.

Toni Tapalovic: The friend of the goalkeeper of FC Bayern Munich

"I try to build up exactly this trust that I have in Manu with the other goalkeepers. It also has to be a friendship somehow, ”said Tapalovic about his work on the homepage of the record champions - and described his goalkeeper philosophy:“ The playful goalkeeper is important to me, he must be agile. A keeper should be the eleventh field player. "

At the latest at the 2014 World Cup, this style of play by Neuers became  legendary - worldwide. Also thanks to the man in the background. His protégé apparently campaigned for him. - for another Tapalovic engagement on Säbener Straße. 

An argument for the 34-year-old national keeper to stay with Bayern  beyond the summer  .

Patrick Mayer

* tz.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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