Soccer – Frankfurt am Main – Rettig welcomes Völler to a new post – Bavaria
Augsburg (dpa) – Andreas Rettig has high hopes for the new national team director Rudi Völler. “I know and appreciate Rudi Völler very much, we wrote next to each other for ten years. So I think he’s a good and right choice for this situation because he has an integrative power,” said the former Bayer manager in an interview with the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung (Monday). Rettig back then for Bayer Leverkusen when Völler switched to the factory club.
Rettig revised his criticism of the “nonsense World Cup” in Qatar and also derived demands in this context. “For German football, there is now the realization that you should not only reach the wallet, but also the hearts of the fans. “They” must become “our team” again. The important point now is to restore identification, both in the club as well as in the national team. You should ask yourself who or what the fan should identify with in the national team,” said the 59-year-old Rettig.
“One IS the timeline of short-term success for Europe 2024 at home. Hopefully the focus will be on the mood change championship by Rudi Völler,” said Rettig. The German national team failed for the second time in a row in the preliminary round at the World Cup in Qatar.
The former Freiburg and Cologne Bundesliga manager, who later celebrated promotion to the Bundesliga with FC Augsburg, emphasized the long-term importance of adapting talent development. “We need youth development 2.0, in which personality development must clearly come to the fore,” he said. “For years we have propagated a misunderstood professionalism in the academies. We thought we and the youngsters would get everything out of the way and iron their underpants.
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