Even under Maurizio Jacobacci, TSV 1860 failed to turn around.
However, Alfred Böswald sees the reasons for this in Michael Köllner.
Munich – Are the lions a case for the psycho couch?
Alfred Böswald, 60, mental coach of TSV 1860 in the second division, was in the stadium on Saturday and watched Maurizio Jacobacci's coaching debut live.
What the Weilheimer observed in the 0-1 draw against Viktoria Köln suggests deep-seated problems.
According to Böswald, there can only be hope if the lions draw the right conclusions from the misery.
Our interview.
Hello Mr. Böswald, even under the third coach this season, the team of the lions seems lifeless, helpless, sometimes pitifully insecure. What's going on from a psychological point of view?
This team is completely leaderless!
Strictly speaking, there was a real hierarchy last time when Sascha Mölders was captain.
Then there was a rift, and from then on Köllner took over the sole rule, felt over the whole club.
That went well for a while, but could only end in sporting disaster.
Because it is not the coach who leads a team to victory, but the captain, who inspires his teammates as a role model.
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But Köllner is gone now.
Koellner may be gone, but the problems his leadership style caused are still there - and blatantly visible in the team.
At a certain point, Köllner was no longer receptive to criticism.
To put it bluntly, one could say: Köllner ruled absolutistly – which led to the players becoming dramatically dependent on him.
Sports director Günther Gorenzel finally released him, believing he could do better than him. A mistake.
The current team is the result of Köllner's misunderstanding of leadership in team sports: the players became puppets under him, no longer doing things themselves, waiting for external impulses instead of acting instinctively.
The self-confidence of the players became foreign awareness.
Players like Jesper Verlaat were publicly humiliated, and the class was denied to the team.
But if players are only guided from the outside, they lose their inner conviction.
They no longer take responsibility for the game, but shift it to their teammates.
And that's exactly what we're currently experiencing on the pitch.
Which coach would you have recommended in the current situation?
Out of respect for Maurizio Jacobacci, an answer is out of the question.
The new coach looks sorted but will now be forced to radically tackle the scourge of leadershiplessness at its root.
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How can it be that the team scored 16 points from the first six games of the season - and at the beginning of the second half of the season just two points against the same opponents?
If you look at the season honestly, you realize that this supposedly great early phase was associated with a lot of luck.
The turning point came on the eighth matchday when we were really shown off by Elversberg.
And at the very latest after the 0-1 defeat in the football cup at the bottom of the regional league, Illertissen, the alarm bells should have been ringing, so bloodless as the team presented itself.
Instead, Köllner was allowed to whitewash the increasingly visible grievances and publicly insult critics.
If you had reacted in the coaching position at the beginning of the long World Cup break, Sixty would be in a different position now.
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Psychologist, author and lion fan: Alfred Böswald.
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It feels like all players have gotten worse, sometimes just a shadow of better days. How do you get the team back on track?
The team needs a head again, a real leader.
Therefore, Jacobacci would now have to make Yannick Deichmann captain - and the club, as a signal, would immediately extend Deichmann's contract.
You can realign the current team around a guy like him.
As a coach, I would discuss with him who he sees in which position, who he trusts to pull the cart out of the mud.
You now have to bet on guys who want to run, fight, tear themselves apart:.
Lang, Morgalla, Greilinger, Lakenmacher – plus geniuses like Boyamba and Vrenezi.
You need a tribe of six or seven players who commit, push each other, lead the way.
Couldn't it be that the players have quit internally? That some are already sounding out where they could go from summer onwards?
I don't think so, because one or the other player will never make it past the 3rd division.
It may be true of Raphael Holzhauser that mentally he is somewhere else - as listless and headless as he appears.
But that doesn't fit the majority of players.
Footballers don't want to lose!
And if they cry to their advisors – where does an advisor want to place these players with this current performance?
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After years in which things were quieter, the shareholders' power struggle is now being fought openly again. What influence does the internal dispute have on the performances of the team?
Much more important is whether people from the group of shareholders want to influence players and coaches, make themselves important.
From my point of view, it is significant and devastating at the same time that more and more officials are being seen on the pitch, whether it's the President or Anthony Power.
Officials belong in the grandstand.
Point.
Is there anything that gives you hope in the current situation?
Little - except the love and loyalty of the fans to their club.
I only have hope if the players finally show the same passion as the fans, who travel far, spend a lot of money and keep coming back even after disastrous performances.
The fans are first class, the rest third class!
Is the end of the season terrifying for the lions, i.e. a relegation battle?
Unfortunately, one has to assume that as of now.
I'm actually afraid that we'll have to be happy if we end the season with a few more points than fourth from bottom.
There are always miracles in football and there is also hope when the team takes the lead as quickly as possible, but there isn't much time.
And the shareholders have to shed their pubescent behavior on both sides.
Everyone has to think radically, only then can something still happen with Munich's great love!
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