Rangnick and Zorniger shaped Salzburg coach Jaissle
Matthias Jaissle was a professional at Hoffenheim under ex-RB sports director Ralf Rangnick and is now training Red Bull Salzburg. In an interview with the Austrian online platform League Portal he also talks about his sponsor, a visit to Leipzig and working and Alexander Zorniger.
Rangnick showed Jaissle the future
With his previous stations, Jaissle is a prototypical Rangnick student. He played actively from 2004 to 2007 in the youth team of VfB Stuttgart and then switched to TSG Hoffenheim. At the time, the Swabians were “a bit of a traffic jam when it came to their careers in Stuttgart,” explains Jaissle. He was also trained in Stuttgart by Thomas Tuchel, when he was still responsible for the U15s. Then he started a success story in Hoffenheim with Ralf Rangnick. “It was unique, with such a village club, to make the march from the third to the 1st league and to cause a sensation in the 1st league in the early stages,” recalls Jaissle. What particularly got him from Rangnick was the visionary clarity. “He showed me at a young age where the journey could go. That was remarkable for me, how far ahead you can be in football.”
Missed EM and WM ended the career
After seven years, he prematurely ended his career due to bad luck with injuries. And then started as a youth assistant coach at RB Leipzig under today’s Hoffenheim Sebastian Hoeneß. Here, too, Rangnick paved the way for him in Leipzig. Former RB coach Alexander Zorniger brought him to Copenhagen from 2017 to 2019. “It was the perfect step for me,” says Jaissle. He then went to Austria and, after two years in youth work, became the head coach of Champions League round of 16 Red Bull Salzburg. As the successor to Jesse Marsch, he led the team to the knockout stages and failed there with a crash at Bayern Munich. “To be honest, it still hurts. It was just brutal,” he says of the 1:7 in the second leg.
Jaissle at RB Leipzig at some point?
Nevertheless, he is happy about what has been achieved so far. “The successes we’ve been able to celebrate so far are sensational. That also makes me a little bit proud.” Unlike Marsch in Leipzig, the assumption of office worked without major friction losses. Could he inherit Domenico Tedesco at some point? “I feel super comfortable here. What I’ve learned from my playing career is that it doesn’t really make sense to make big plans,” he says in general about his future. But he definitely wants to develop further. A move to Leipzig is obvious in view of his career, should the opportunity arise.