Sascha Mölders played a major role in the fact that 1860 was fourth last season.
The top scorer is currently hanging down: In the game at SC Verl, he is threatened with the bank.
Since his experience with the corona quarantine ("modern detention") Michael Köllner has been back in life - and out and about every evening, mostly on a semi-private mission. The now fully immunized 1860 coach leaves no reason to listen to his troubled team. On Sunday he went ice hockey with Semi Belkahia, on Monday he jogged with Richard Neudecker, and on Wednesday it was the Sechzger Wiesn with the whole team, which is why the busy coach refrained from persuading one of his professionals to go to the cinema the Tuesday before. Köllner thinks that the documentary about 1860 boxing trainer Ali Cukur (“Lion Hearted”) is worth seeing, but he thought: “If I take a few players with me, they'll say: He's got a great tit! "In the end it was co-trainer Günter Brandl,who landed in front of the screen with Köllner "and a bucket of popcorn".
"I always think it makes sense to exchange ideas in a slightly different atmosphere," says Köllner of his way of leading people. But psychology or conversations: all 28 players in his squad are impossible to manage even in a seven-day week, and so one fell through the rust before the away game at SC Verl (Saturday, 2 p.m., Lotte), who also remembered an exciting companion would have been: Sascha Mölders.
It doesn't work with the captain, who is so involved in the fact that the lions are currently groaning under the expectations they have raised themselves. With his 22 goals in the preseason, Mölders catapulted himself into the annals of German football (oldest top scorer) - and his club in fourth place. To a position at which Köllner and his team are now measured; since the 0-2 home defeat against Zwickau a little more. There are now nine places that separate Köllner's team from their final result of the 2020/21 season. Mölders himself has only met twice since the summer and is now a candidate for the bank if the secret observers of the non-public training are correct.
Basically, nobody is happy when they have to go to the bank.
For me, the only thing that counts is that the team plays successfully
1860 coach Michael Köllner.
Köllner, when asked about his in shape striker on Friday, of course did not say that he would take the captain out of the starting XI, but he did suggest that he would consider the (from Mölders' point of view) unpopular measure - as long as he has the feeling that he can use it to get his team on track.
“Basically nobody is happy when they have to go to the bench,” said the coach: “For me, the only thing that matters is that the team plays successfully.
We miss his gates, we miss the way in which he develops his gates. "The following sentence is remarkable:" One should not practice a personality cult. "
The cult lion ("Wampe von Giesing") may see it differently - and to be on the safe side, Köllner added: "That won't tell you anything for the next few weeks." Means: A game without Mölders is conceivable. October) the cards will be reshuffled.
For the 36-year-old to take a breather, the fact that newcomer Marcel Bär, 29, is a capable and fully operational striker is available.
The trainer on the ex-Braunschweig resident: "His shoulder has recently got better from day to day."
Köllner also gave a (general) lecture on the “ego” of professionals - and the worthwhile attitude of putting the well-being of the team above individual interests.
At the latest then it became clear: the next evening bar / cinema / fitness appointment has been taken.