New youth concept of the DFB: TSV 1860 and Haching would benefit

The German Football Association wants to fundamentally reform youth football with the “Project Future”.

In addition to a lot of uncertainty, the changeover also offers great opportunities.

• 

With the

the

wants to

completely change the youth football system in Germany.

• The

is to be abolished in the future and leagues are to be created exclusively for clubs with high-performance

. 

• The

is intended to give small professional clubs in particular the opportunity to become more competitive again.

Munich

- In recent years there have been fewer and fewer talents who have made

 their way into the respective

and thus into

via the

performance centers of their clubs

.

The

has been

trying

to evaluate the reason for this

with its 

since

.

According to

 , the association has already

presented

its concrete plans for youth

. 

Reform of the Junior Bundesliga: Separate leagues for the NLZs of the professional teams

The stated goal of the

is therefore an individual training adapted to the age of the players.

This should release itself from the pressure for results and success of the past years and create an environment in which players can develop as positively and freely as possible.

The

how these goals can be achieved as

follows.

The

for

and

are to be abolished and the NLZ is to be spun off from regular game operations.

In this scenario, the current 56 professional clubs would

play

the

among themselves without having to fear relegation.

TSV 1860 and SpVgg Unterhaching could benefit from the new concept

If you look at the current situation of the three big professional

, you can see that currently only the youngsters of

 in the

and

.

An unsatisfactory situation,

especially for

. 

If a talented player with potential has the choice of

spending

the decisive years in the youth division in the

or

, many young players choose the

If TSV 1860 cannot offer the top division, as in the past three years, the hoped-for change often fails.

Pressure to perform should give way to individual support

This is exactly where the new

concept

in.

NLZs are initially set to one level.

As a result, the stars of tomorrow would play permanently at the highest level and clubs would no longer have to deal with the risk of a possible

. 

For clubs like TSV 1860 or SpVgg Unterhaching, the prospects could be rosy, because successful youth work strengthens - according to the idea of ​​the DFB - the foundation for later success in the adult sector.

A concept that

should not be alien to

the T

.

NLZ clubs in their own league: What happens to clubs like FC Deisenhofen?

Names like  

, the

twins or

are still haunting Giesing - people in Munich are proud of their young lions.

It seems that the project will result in a win-win situation for both clubs and associations.

With all the positive aspects, it remains to be seen how possible reforms will affect clubs without NLZ.

A prominent example from the region is 

.

The U19 have been

 successfully

competing against

the

and

in the

for years

. 

Helmut Lucksch fears a two-class society

Helmut Lucksch

, former

at

, who was on the verge of promotion to the Junior Bundesliga in 2016/17, sees such a development at least in two ways: “In the future, teams and coaches will have more time to watch each other work because the pressure of a possible promotion or relegation is no longer there ”, believes the 51-year-old, who also looked after the U19 of TSV 1860 for a short time.

"This means that the individual support of the players can definitely come to the fore."

At the same time, he warns that a two-tier society could quickly emerge in youth football: “In the future, it will hardly be possible for small village clubs to keep talented players in the club because the run on the youth centers will be bigger than FB has ever been before. "

The gap between professional and amateur football is greater than ever 

The current crisis shows impressively how big the gap between

really is, at least as far as adult

is concerned.

If the

project is implemented as planned, there are justified doubts as to whether it is really necessary

to transform

youth football into a similar

. 

A clear prognosis about the

or

the

can hardly be made at the moment anyway.

Many professional clubs are fighting for survival due to the corona pandemic. 

(Thomas Oesterer)