1. FC is about to make a new start

Created: 05/30/2022, 19:11

By: Oliver Rabuser

Pure frustration: (from left) Florian Langenegger, Elian Schmitt, Imanuel Sierck, Jonas Schrimpf, Jakob Jörg, Martin Hennebach and Moritz Müller.

© Oliver Rabuser

The shock is still deep: 1. FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen failed in the relegation and will play in the district league next season.

After the relegation, a lot is still unclear at Gröben - also in terms of the main sponsor.

On the other hand, certainty prevails when a quartet leaves the club.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen - There are sporting setbacks that come at the wrong time and for which the club is not really prepared.

Because after the relegation of both men's teams, 1. FC Garmisch-Partenkirchen now has to completely reposition itself.

It is completely unclear what the future structures will look like and what ambitions the club can formulate after the frontal crash on Sunday.

Marcel Wollenberg did not find it easy to channel the events of the late afternoon.

He most recently appeared as the team's first coach and mouthpiece, but had to leave the stadium at the break due to a professional appointment.

On the way to the airport, he looked at the missed chances of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

He also caught the late goal and the final whistle on the same device.

A final whistle as the final whistle for the state league football in the market town.

Wollenberg was sure that 1. FC would avoid relegation at the last possible moment.

But at the decisive moment, the nerves of some players went on strike.

There was enough time for the interim coach to observe the team and the characters.

He isn't sure of everyone's absolute devotion and loyalty.

"Some of them seem to me as if they're picking up the cash here to finance their studies or their GTI." In other words: play a little kick for a nice expense allowance - yes.

Giving the club the last shirt – no.

Tough stuff, especially since he confronts sports director Arne Albl with the latent accusation of having waved the bills too loosely in recent years.

Albl does not disagree decisively on the matter, but emphasizes that there will always be players who do everything possible to always be there - and the others.

On the other hand, he clearly rejects the matter of wagging.

Other district and state leagues would shell out far higher sums.

"If we were to pay that much, Srdjan Ivkovic might still have been here and Maximilian Berwein would have come in the winter," counters Albl defiantly.

Brisk earnest money should be over with immediate effect anyway.

It's going into the district league, and the voices are getting louder and louder that the main sponsor, the Langmatz company, is repositioning itself after personnel changes in the executive floor in terms of sports sponsorship.

In the future, support will “not be as great as it used to be,” Albl admits.

The team will also have a different face next season.

Florian Scheck and Stefan Durr are retiring, Martin Hennebach is leaving the club, and Dominik Schubert was also not enthusiastic about another year because of the time commitment.

Whether other players are flirting with a change of club because of the lowered level of play is still open.

"I don't know anything until now," says Albl.

The subject of coaches is also controversial.

As much as the various coaches worked with the team to the best of their knowledge and belief, the ideal case was not the multi-person solution.

After the resignation of Christoph Saller, Hansi Huber, Florian Scheck and team manager Beqir Loshi arranged the necessities.

At some point Wollenberg joined them, and when the nightmare was over, Loshi and Gerhard Schmidt stood alone on the sidelines, frustrated.

"A clever coach should have been there right away," clarifies Edelfan Sepp Spindler.

Albl defends the "quick fix" for the relationship with the team.

Florian Heringer as Saller's planned successor was not free, other coaches on the market "couldn't or didn't want to".

In the case of the reserve, however, the way was mapped out.

Nobody wanted to worry about the atmospheric disturbances between Stefan Lorenz and Saller.

Players were sometimes there, sometimes not.

The reasonably stable back series was ultimately not able to compensate for the mortgage from the fall, because there were always missing kickers, helping out with the first team, or having to take on the double burden in the A-youth.

But also because a qualified keeper was rarely available.

After Lorenz, assistant coach Sascha Staab is also about to jump.

Due to an unclear personnel situation and little desire to order half the team over the phone before each match day.