Whether in the kebab shop or at the gas station - Köllner wants to make all 1860 fans happy

Created: 01/13/2022Updated: 01/13/2022, 1:07 pm

From: Uli Kellner

Expectant: 1860 coach Michael Köllner before the start of the remainder of the second half of the season.

© Stefan Matzke / Sampics

January has it all for Köllner's Löwen: five games are on the agenda - "You can all win, but you can also lose".

And: It's about distraction in the pandemic.

Can the lions save the much-invoked "Spirit of Belek" (Köllner) over to Giesing? The opening program in the 3rd division (Wehen, Türkgücü, Lautern, Cologne) and in the DFB-Pokal (Karlsruhe) has it all - which doesn’t disturb the trainer, who is currently in a good mood. “At sixty I was served a thousand games of fate,” said Michael Köllner before the difficult opening match against Wehen Wiesbaden (Saturday, 2 p.m., MagentaSport): “I can never allow myself three games in which we don't deliver. January is really cool. You can win any game, but you can also lose any. "

Five games within 16 days are a real board. Four of them will take place in Munich: three in Giesing, one in the Olympiastadion (the derby against Türkgücü on January 22nd) - to the chagrin of the coach, none of them were spectators. “It's a shame,” says Köllner, who still fondly remembers the cup cracker at the end of October: “Sixty against Schalke, that made us want more. 1860 in its purity. That's how I understand my job: Everyone who is in contact with sixty: next to it at the gas station, in a kebab shop, or a Giesinger who lives here but no longer goes to the stadium: They should all get a positive attitude towards life . In Nuremberg I was able to make an entire region feel elated. Especially in this sh ... pandemic it is importantthat sixty wins - then there could be a hundred variations for some fans. Something like that drives me: That we can manage a great January. "

In Nuremberg I was able to make an entire region feel elated. 

The current 1860 and former club trainer Michael Köllner.

And what is sporty in it for the Lions, who are seven points behind a promotion place in the league and can advance into the last eight in the DFB Cup on Tuesday? “I don't know whether we should declare a hunting season,” says Köllner modestly: “I don't have the impression that, apart from Magdeburg, maybe one team will win everything in January. We want to get great results and then we'll see what is possible. I'm not interested in how many points we're behind. Three quarters of a year ago we were 13 points behind Dresden and had to beat them at home to get close to ten. It is crucial that you are there in the final phase and maybe be able to create a cup surprise. That's why the next games are importantso that you can spark euphoria and get a boost - possibly fueled by our training camp. ”By the almost legendary“ Spirit of Belek ”.