Erdinger athletes' resolutions: run 100 kilometers, alcohol break, fitness oaths

Created: 2023-01-07 09:59

By: Dieter Priglmeir

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We have an idea why all resolutions fundamentally fail.

At least almost everyone.

That's the way it is with athletes:

they break records, unfortunately they sometimes break their legs – and they break their resolutions.

This often happens very quickly, as Friedl Ettenauer, the Oberdinger trainer legend, knows from his long career at TuS: "So many players have resolved on New Year's Eve not to drink alcohol anymore." And who lasted the longest?

Ettenauer: "The record is still January 3."

Harry Kronthaler, who has been in the business for almost as long, also

knows of numerous footballers who have declared war on alcohol.

"They took it very seriously too.

Only most of them misunderstood something, I think.” Keyword alcohol destruction instead of avoidance.

Maybe resolutions really aren't for athletes,

which is why England international Paul Gascoigne once made the decision: "I never make predictions - and I never will." But there are, for example, the Dorfen footballers who have made resolutions in recent years had to get fit and came up with a two-month challenge, as Markus Wetzel explains.

"Everyone had to run a total of 100 kilometers." Participation was voluntary, but those who didn't make it had to put a Tragl beer in the cabin - there were quite a few."

Langengeisling's reserve coach Wast Held also talks about noble goals

and - let's say - not so great successes: "No alcohol?

Nobody managed to do that until the first match day of the second half of the season.

We weigh in before the first training session: the team treasury was well stocked afterwards." And he still has the promise in his ear: "Coach, I'll be at every game and every training session in the second half of the season." Held: "Only the coach fulfilled this resolution .”

Why is it so hard to keep resolutions?

"Not because it's hard we don't dare, but because we don't dare it's hard." Huh?

That's what Seneca, the Roman philosopher, said over 2000 years ago.

So that doesn't get us any further.

Maybe the double effort will help, or more precisely the Finsinger model that Thomas Bonnet told us about.

Two of his players had set up a shared flat last year.

“The goal: one makes the other fitter.

The other one helps his friend learn more for his studies.” Brilliant idea.

"But it hasn't worked out so well so far," admits Bonnet: "One isn't getting thinner, the other isn't learning anymore." Actually, it has gotten even worse.

Candidate one is even more unfit, the studiosus learns even less because they are now partying together.”

Peter Werndl and Franz Hornof

weren't too successful either.

In their joint Moosinninger football time they wanted to use the time between the end of the preliminary round and the start of the second half of the season and made a three-month subscription to the Schollbach sports park: December, January and February.

Werndl admits: "The only time I was in the gym during this time was when registering." After all, he had been to the Walpertskirchen Soccerpark three times, "but that didn't help me much in the preparation for the pig runs".

What we learn from the Finsing and Moosinning cases: Even attempts to stick to resolutions as a duo are useless.

Maybe a team promise will help?

Volleyball player Heidi Schneider rose to the Bundesliga with SV Lohhof in the 1980s.

"At that time we had made it our goal as a team to win at least one game," says the retired teacher from Erding, but it was always a little lacking.

“We lost the train to Hamburg – 2:3.

We flew to Berlin - lost 2:3.

And that's how it went the whole time until we got off again.” Well, sometimes it's just not meant to be.

And sometimes the success is grandiose, but only a temporary phenomenon.

The two ice choppers Dany Krzizok and Philipp Spindler had set themselves a six-week weight loss challenge when they were in the state league.

"Pippo actually lost 14 kilos, which was almost a health concern," says Krzizok.

He himself lost eight kilos "and thought that would definitely put me in first place," he says with a laugh.

"I've kept the weight off to this day.

Pippo has now put on 20 kilos.”

But before we make fun of athletes,

let's think back to our school days.

After the summer holidays, who hasn't been diligently and highly motivated sharpening and sorting their colored pencils - and by the third day of school at the latest hasn't found their geo triangle.

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But we want to close with a success story,

which brings us back to Oberdinger Friedl Ettenauer.

At the age of 23 he had decided to quit smoking.

This year he is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a non-smoker.