Haching's youth work is different: Karim Adeyemi is the best example

Created: 03/12/2022, 11:51 am

Reinhard Hübner believes that without Haching and his mentor Schwabl, Karim Adeyemi would hardly have become this player who is in great demand throughout Europe.

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In most youth academies, young football talents are shown little patience.

Reinhard Hübner's Merkur column "Z Zwischentöne".

Sandro Wagner is someone who likes to polarize things.

It's not always well received when someone seriously claims that football professionals are underpaid.

Or says of himself that he is the best German striker.

In the meantime, the badly paid super super striker has turned into a not too successful coach.

You should be careful though:

Wagner defines success differently, it is not the table that counts, but the development of the players.

Which he is right about, if he sees himself as a talent promoter, as he came to SpVgg Unterhaching.

And the boss sees it that way too.

It is well known that Manni Schwabl considers youth work to be more important than the return of his professionals to the 3rd division.

SpVgg Unterhaching: Manfred Schwabl wants to develop talent with a lot of patience

Under this premise, everything fits.

In Haching, it is said, talented people can mature relatively stress-free, get a taste of men's football earlier than elsewhere, should develop in peace and then, following the example of Karim Adeyemi, bring the club the urgently needed money.

That is Schwabl's philosophy.

And that's how Haching differs from the practice of other junior academies.

Schwabl wants to develop talent with a lot of patience, give them time, not, as a study of German and international academies has shown, replace 29 percent of the boys every year.

Contrary to the results of the TU Kaiserslautern, he puts personality and school before sport.

And, very down-to-earth, he doesn't get any mega-talents from other NLZ or even from abroad.

Unless they want to see him.

SpVgg Unterhaching: Frank Schmöller reacts to criticism from Sandro Wagner

Haching, it seems, is different.

So maybe it's not just a cheeky saying, not just loyalty to the current employer when Sandro Wagner says he wouldn't have his children trained by FC Bayern*, not by the lions, but in Haching.

Because at Bayern, where he turned professional, "a fifteen-year-old comes from the USA", at sixty you are "very dogged".

The reaction that came from the lion's corner shows that he hits some sore points with it.

According to U21 coach Schmöller, it is a matter of decency to refrain from making such claims "if you don't have any detailed knowledge".

The sixties led to a large number of talents in the Bundesliga and national team, thanks to great talent developers like Ernst Tanner and Wolfgang Schellenberg - long history at sixty.

So maybe the lions are still the exception to the rule that the authors of the above-mentioned report are now denouncing?

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Without SpVgg Unterhaching and Schwabl, Karim Adeyemi would not have matured into a coveted top talent

Above all, it is criticized that children are brought into the NLZs far too early, since talent scouting in the U8 to U14 age groups makes little sense, that only nine percent of the original U11 players of a NLZ are still in the U19, that only about one in 1000 discovered talents from the NLZ makes it into the Bundesliga.

A reliable development prognosis is not possible for children under 14.

Because they are taken anyway, but the vast majority are soon sent away again, around 50 percent of those who have been thrown out would suffer medically verifiable psychological damage.

As if Corona wasn't enough.

Unterhaching also has an NLZ, so it cannot completely escape the criticism of the scientists.

Sandro Wagner, however, should have the insight not only to throw out a saying, but to recognize the essential difference between the Hachinger philosophy and other young forges.

Adeyemi, that's obvious, would hardly have become this much sought-after player throughout Europe without Haching and his mentor Schwabl.

So: Not everything Wagner says is arrogant per se.

Even if it comes across that way.

(REINHARD HÜBNER)