The one who is always willing to go into the analysis like no other, explains in detail why it was this time again that his team was no longer able to do anything, simply did not want to make a game evaluation. Even more: he made it clear that he no longer had a tactical solution for what his Bremen team had done wrong over 90 minutes before and again. He feels “brutally empty”, the bankruptcy “hurts him” – for the club, for the employees and for everyone who kept the club going. His words were like a bankruptcy declaration. Did the TV viewers experience a coach who, like his team, is (almost) at the end?
“Knife between the teeth”: This is how Florian Kohfeldt wants to take the last chance to stay in Werder’s class. (Source: Omnisport)
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It was Kohfeldt that brought Werder back on track in 2017
Ex-Werder manager Willi Lemke is certain that there will be “a very lively discussion in Bremen” about Kohfeldt’s future. “That will be one of the points we have to discuss,” said Lemke on “Wontorra – the football talk”.
The anti-Kohfeldt front on the Internet is also becoming increasingly broad against the “Trainer of the Year 2018”. Statements such as “He’s totally failed”, “Out with this gossip”, “He should pack his bags and bye” or “You destroyed my club” can be read there. So the question inevitably arises: Was that for Florian Kohfeldt as a Werder coach? Or better: must it have been for him?
The answer is very clear: no! A lot of mistakes were undoubtedly made on the Weser this season. Very many. Yes, Max Kruse was not adequately replaced. Yes, the squad was put together incorrectly (too old, too slow, too little physical, no real leaders). Yes, there were seasoned Bundesliga players who were far too vulnerable to injury (Füllkrug, Toprak). Yes, the youth has been neglected too much recently. Yes, the training dosage and medical department need to be questioned given the many injuries over the course of the season.
Florian Kohfeldt is partly responsible for all of this. But it was the 37-year-old who brought Werder Bremen, which was threatened with relegation, back on track in winter 2017. He gave the team at that time a clear handwriting, in the previous year it only scratched past Europe by a pinch.
He has been in the club for 19 years, has been a Werder fan for more than 30 years and is burning for the green-whites like probably no trainer before on the Weser. He is eloquent and gifted with rhetoric, is tactically well trained, knows how to shape and improve young players. In short: He is a coaching gem that will leave this season with a new experience. It is not for nothing that this trainer has been associated with clubs such as Dortmund and most recently Hoffenheim.
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Kohfeldt naturally wasted a lot of credit this season. However, he deserves the chance to get this loan back – with a clear game philosophy, which culminates in great offensive football, with a young and hungry team and, above all, economically so important direct promotion as the top priority. SC Freiburg has already proven that in the past.
Christian Streich: The 55-year-old has been coach of the A-Elf in Breisgau since December 2011. (Source: Eibner)
The Breisgau team went into the second division with Christian Streich five years ago, but immediately rose again and, thanks to Streich’s continuous work, even scratched European places this year. In Freiburg, they are more than happy to continue to call this less successful Christian Streich their trainer.
One thing is clear: Werder Bremen is playing a season to forget, the second relegation after 1980 would be absolutely deserved in terms of sport, because too many mistakes were made at all levels, which are usually punished. But the biggest would be to go into the second division without Kohfeldt.
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