SC Freiburg has extended the contract with trainer Christian Streich, in office since 2011. Streich now reveals why a bike tour plays an important role in the extra time, why he prefers to be the champion rather than second – and when he finally ends in Freiburg.
The bike tour to Morocco has to wait a bit, the Freiburg veteran Christian Streich remains in his beloved Breisgau for now. One day after his 55th birthday, the original from Baden gave himself a present and extended his contract with SC Freiburg.
On Friday, Streich once again made it clear how much he cares about the sports club. “I like being a coach here,” he said before his voice stopped and he had to fight tears, “and I hope that I can be a coach for a few more years.” Streich has been head coach at the SCF since 2011, making him the longest-serving head coach in the Bundesliga. As usual, however, the Freiburg company did not reveal how long the new working paper would apply. However, it is clear that it will end in ten years at the latest. “No, at 65 I am no longer a Freiburg coach,” said Streich on Wednesday in Sport Bild: “I hope that I still have such great mobility that I can say: ‘So, I’m crouching now on the bike, it doesn’t matter how long I need, so I go to Morocco. ‘”Or also north, the main thing somewhere,” where it is culturally or scenic. I dream of that “.
“There I say: German master”
However, the Bundesliga remains a major entertainment factor. For years, Streich has not only impressed with his expertise, but also with his capricious nature. As a player, he and Joachim Löw have worked for the Breisgauer, since 1995 he has worked as a coach for the Freiburg team – first as a youth coach and then as an assistant coach by Marcus Sorg before he himself took a seat in the executive chair after his release.
“If we continue to get along so well and don’t lose so often, I hope it will go on for a long time,” said Streich. He enjoyed his “special situation” with the Freiburgers “extremely”, after all, he knew about the privilege of being able to work in the same place for so long, unlike many of his colleagues. Streich “admired” Bruno Labbadia or Friedhelm Funkel, for example: “I think it would not have been possible for me to travel around and be released.”
But he has to travel to Wolfsburg first, in VfL on Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky and in the live ticker on ntv.de) a direct competitor is waiting in the fight for the Europa League. The relegation is already four games before the end of the season in dry towels, but Streich does not want to be satisfied with it, as he put it in his very own way. “We’d rather be sixth,” he said when asked if he’d prefer sixth or seventh: “And if you asked me if we’d rather be fifth or sixth, I’d say: better fifth. And second or German master – I say German master. Clearly. ” Then Christian Streich laughed heartily – it certainly won’t be boring with him in Freiburg.
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