The Best FIFA Football Awards ™ – News – Lerch: “Harder is one of the most complete women footballers”

• Stephan Lerch again in the preselection for the award for The Best – FIFA World Coach – Women 2020
• After this season he leaves the Wolf fins
• “I hope that there will be a few more special moments”

Living in the here and now and making the best of every situation – that’s Stephan Lerch’s credo. No easy task in 2020, but one that he mastered with flying colors. At the end of last season, VfL Wolfsburg celebrated the double of championship and trophy, only in the final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League did their team Olympique Lyon admit defeat. Despite all the adversities, the 36-year-old managed to maintain motivation and morale in the team.

“As a coach, you don’t have that much influence if you can’t see the players. You live from interaction, and in this case it doesn’t exist anymore. So it was clear to us that we had to find other ways of communication. We have We did a lot of communication with our club-internal program, tried to constantly pick up and update the players. We also sent the training plans through this program and simply tried to approach the matter positively, “he describes the challenges he is facing due to the pandemic saw.

“In addition to the developments regarding Corona, there were also constant new developments about how it will continue and whether it will continue. From ‘season end to we continue playing’ – everything was there. You have to try to stay calm, but the players anyway we still wanted to give hope. We wanted to keep playing and finish the season. That worked out. Spreading optimism is a part that you can take on as a coach. It was a big challenge, faith and optimism wasn’t to lose.”

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The world’s best women’s football coach of 2020 will be chosen on December 17th in a virtual edition of “The Best FIFA Football Awards ™”. The shortlist published today also includes # Wolf wolvesHead coach Stephan Lerch! ???? #VfLWolfsburg https://t.co/j90PWiigvT

– VfL Wolfsburg Women (@VfL_Frauen) 25. November 2020

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A further trophy collection could now be added to the large trophy collection. For the second time, the VfL head coach is one of the candidates for the award The Best FIFA World Coach Women 2020. In 2018 he found himself in the illustrious circle of the crème de la crème for the first time. In 2013 his predecessor Ralf Kellermann was also one of the candidates and in 2014 was named coach of the year in women’s football.

“I am of course happy to be available again. It is an award for having done a very good and quite successful job over a long period of time. But I also say that I accept this award and I would like to go to the whole team behind the team I know that the kind of achievements the team has shown are only possible in a team. In principle, I’m the substitute who receives it. Of course, I’ve also played my part. No matter how it turns out, just be there , if you look at all the colleagues, it’s something special for me, ”said Lerch, who took over the position of head coach in 2017.

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But this era is slowly coming to an end. The 2020/21 season will be his last in this position. In 2013 he joined VfL Wolfsburg as the coach of the second women’s team, and a year later he took over the position of junior sports director, which he held until his appointment as head coach.

“It’s not over yet and we still have a few months. I hope that there will be a few more special moments,” the likeable Darmstadt-born man describes with a laugh. “The absolute highlight of my career so far in these four years as head coach were of course those big finals in the Champions League. They are remembered, even if unfortunately we have not yet succeeded in winning them. “

Games and moments that you don’t experience every day are burned into his memory, but so are the many wonderful moments with the team. “So many things have happened in these four years that I will always have in my heart. It is really difficult for me to say, this is my highlight now. There were so many beautiful moments, such as the championship trophy for the first time to hold in hand as head coach. Those are special moments, of course, but there are also the many small moments that you had, the many trips to different countries and special stadiums that I would never have thought to see from the inside to be allowed.”

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Stephan Lerch on Pernille Harder

“In my opinion, Pernille is one of the most complete football players that we have and can marvel at – especially in the offensive area, where you stand out because you score or prepare goals. She is of enormous technical quality, where she is very strong The same applies to the pre-orientation, the overview and the feeling for the game. Where do I have to position myself now, how do I position myself, which rooms do I have to go to so that I get the following action or the following action Outstanding skills. Of course, she also has a strong degree, is dangerous. As far as her character is concerned, one has to say that she puts team success above everything. That is also something special. She has always done that in her time for VfL. She strives for maximum success with the team and for that she gives everything – for herself and for the team. “

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