Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - travel routes, further training, tactical brain teasers and presence at the edge of the field: the effort for amateur trainers is high.
Your payment often too.
Will the calls for four-digit coaching fees soon bring small clubs to the financial pain threshold?
"The left winger gets a thousand in his hand." "And they pay the coach 2,500 euros straight away." Anderl Meyr knows it when such sums circulate on the sidelines: "There's a lot of talking - even from people who aren't involved ", says Meyr, head of football at Lenggrieser SC.
Are these gross values?
Is the money only paid for eight months?
Meyr thinks in relative directions when he once again picks up debates about footballer salaries behind the touchline.
Money can score goals - but often only in the short term
He is deeply involved in the matter and has been head of department at the LSC for 14 years.
Even if Meyr warns against rumours, he can confirm: "The salary demands of trainers have gone up in recent years." He would like this statement to be understood in general and not have it applied directly to his LSC.
You get a lot: For example, that four-digit monthly fees for trainers in the district league are common.
"Thank God we're not there yet," says Meyr, who has identified a city-countryside difference.
Munich clubs often have a large sponsor who pays the trainer's salary.
In the short term, money can score goals and even promote promotions - if a renowned coach brings in higher-quality players.
According to Meyr, however, such ventures are often short-sighted: "If the youth players leave because they see no chance, it destroys the club structure."
Two years ago, the President of the Bavarian Football Association, Rainer Koch, criticized payments to coaches and players from the district league down.
They are the main reason for financial difficulties in clubs.
A warning example is the FT Starnberg, which was relegated from the state league to the district class within four years and is now starting again in the C class after the forced withdrawal.
The project of FC Penzberg, which has been promoted to the district league, is exciting to watch, where players as contract amateurs and the trainer Andreas Brunner, who has a Bundesliga license, are well paid.
Thanks to the sale of the club's premises to the city, they are in an excellent financial position there.
Is the trend towards higher salaries for coaches bringing village clubs to a pain threshold?
"It's a calculable item, which of course carries weight," replies Klaus Kell.
The department head of SC Gaißach, like his colleagues, is silent about specific amounts.
Whereby: Meyr mentions "zero euros" as his earnings at the LSC - and in the same breath is annoyed that volunteering is not subsidized by the state.
"As department head, I called 300 times last year - because of game postponements and many other organizational things," Meyr sums up.
The time required for a trainer is similarly high.
Oliver Poqué, who is allowed to lead teams up to the Bayernliga with his B license, gives an insight: “You are toujours busy with football.
In addition to a regular job, this is a burden that you no longer leave out.
You can't switch off," says the coach of the SC Gaißach district league.
On training-free days you have to prepare for the next units.
At the weekend, Poqué inspects both his own and opponents' games.
"It depends on how seriously you take it," says the coach, who once commuted between his home in Lenggries and his coaching position in Garmisch.
Routes, tactical puzzles, presence at the edge of the field: an effort that, according to Poqué, should be paid for accordingly.
At his coaching stations - in addition to Gaißach and Garmisch, also Penzberg and Bad Heilbrunn - he was and is satisfied with his salary.
In his case, it was not four digits.
"The ideas in football are exaggerated.
That extends from the professional area to the small clubs," says Poqué.
Anderl Meyr sees it similarly.
He is bothered by "this fast pace".
Today here, tomorrow there: The transfer carousel also turns in the amateur leagues.
One candidate even asked for a car at one point
Poqué doesn't like it when footballers "brand themselves with rumours".
But sometimes there is something to it, as Rudolf Thumann, head of department at TSV Benediktbeuern, can confirm.
“Some candidates are imagining expense allowances that our club cannot and does not want to pay.
In addition to a monthly fixed amount, kilometer allowance and expenses should also be paid.” For Thumann, this is sometimes an impossibility: “We would have to organize three club festivals a year just to finance the trainer.”
Michael Zauner, head of football at SV Bad Tölz, knows that too.
With one exception, however, the club has mostly been lucky in its past coaching commitments.
"Our trainer salaries are not an excessive burden on the budget," Zauner clarifies.
But he, too, has scoured the coaching market in the past and found: "There is definitely an upward trend in salary expectations."
TSV Benediktbeuern recently agreed on an internal solution with Albert Schandl and Thomas Guggemos – as did SF Bichl (Sepp Demmel), Lenggrieser SC (Thomas Mürnseer) and FC Kochelsee Schlehdorf (Andreas Leiß).
Their representatives reported several failed negotiations with "foreign" candidates.
Even if there wasn't always a lack of money: clear evidence of how difficult it is to get a coach interested in working in the countryside.
Anderl Meyr is aware that coaches compare their salaries.
"That's legitimate." The demand that reached him a few years ago was not very legitimate: "I once had a candidate who wanted the club (then district league) to provide him with a car."
Text: Tobias Gmach, Nick Scheder and Hans Demmel
Source: fussball-vorort.de