SV Werder Bremen will visit Holstein Kiel on the 15th matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga.
On Saturday evening (8.30 p.m.) in focus: Werder's assistant coach Christian Brand - the preliminary report from DeichStube *.
Bremen - The language of football, as everyone knows, is not exactly poor in terms of new words.
Season after season, new ones appear with great reliability.
The examples “chipball”, “target player” and - especially nice - “defending away” should suffice at this point, perhaps garnished with the irritated question as to where else one should defend to if not away?
But it doesn't matter.
The language of football has definitely owed one thing so far: A word that could be used to describe
Christian Brand's
current role at
SV Werder Bremen
.
Werder Bremen versus Holstein Kiel: This is how substitute coach Christian Brand wants to approach the game
After the resignation of head coach
Markus Anfang
and the corona illness of interim coach Danijel Zenkovic, the 49-year-old Bremen U19 coach will join the
SV Werder Bremen team
on Saturday evening (from 8.30 p.m. in
the
DeichStube
live ticker
) during the second division game at
Holstein Kiel
supervise - as a kind of "interim trainer substitute trainer". Which, admittedly, sounds extremely bulky,
Christian Brand
but again it shouldn't matter. Because if he broadcast one thing during the press conference on Friday, it was the attitude that for him the only thing that counts is the game. "After Danijel's Corona infection and a short conversation with Frank Baumann it was clear that I would take over the team in Kiel," said Brand, praising the players for their "professional handling of the situation" and emphasizing: "It's all about them To prepare the team as best as possible for the game. ”The tone of voice that the ex-professional used in all of this was described with the adjective“ sober ”almost a bit too euphorically. It almost seemed as if Brand wanted to save his words for the conversations with the players, of which he had already had quite a few in the past few days.
“We sit down and have an espresso together. Then I listen and ask questions, "said
Christian Brand
, describing
the procedure with which he wanted to get a feel for the" feelings and worries "of the professionals. That had been the focus for him over the past few days, because from a purely footballing point of view there was not much that could be changed in such a short time. "The basis was laid in the months before," said Brand - and emphasized: "I will certainly not turn everything upside down in a week, especially since the team is on the right track." In the direction of the fire since the preparations for
SV Werder Bremen
in the summer.
Werder Bremen versus Holstein Kiel: Coach Christian Brand with "beginning football"?
Shortly after Markus Anfang became
head coach
at
SV Werder Bremen
, there was a meeting with the coaches of the youth performance center, which was also attended by U19 coach Brand
participated. "We sat together and talked about what can be adopted from the ideas of the professional coaching team for the youth teams", reported Brand, who was involved in the "beginning football" very early - and therefore
does not have to start from scratch
against
Holstein Kiel
. Even interim coach Danijel Zenkovic had said after the 1-1 draw against Schalke 04: "There was a lot of Markus beginning on the field today." It should be similar in Kiel.
Christian Brand
spoke of "minor adjustments" that he wanted to make. The focus is on playing out excess numbers: "We have to be more focused."
After the game in
Kiel
, as
Werder Bremen has
already announced, Brand will immediately take care of his U19s again, who will be playing in the junior Bundesliga at VfL Osnabrück on Sunday afternoon - with him on the sidelines. During the week, the coach had coached both professionals and the next generation in training. "The second division team trains in the mornings, the U19s in the evenings, so the timing was right," said sports director Frank Baumann and praised
Christian Brand
for his commitment: "He really has a lot of energy." This is definitely not the worst quality such an "
interim trainer-substitute trainer
" can bring along. (dco)
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