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Berlin (dpa) - According to his advisor, Ralf Rangnick currently favors the office of national soccer coach over a job in the Bundesliga team, despite sympathy for FC Schalke 04.
«Ralf Rangnick is interested in the job of national coach.
He is in his early 60s and in top shape, that would be the culmination of his career, ”said Marc Kosicke in an interview with“ Sport1 ”.
In the opinion of the coach consultant, there is also no potential for conflict between DFB director Oliver Bierhoff and Rangnick, should this successor to Joachim Löw.
"Strong people usually surround themselves with other strong people in order to be even stronger," said Kosicke, "Rangnick and Bierhoff would be a strong duo".
The consultant confirmed that a “group of very, very passionate people from the Schalke community” asked the 62-year-old whether he could help lead the club to its former strength.
“He said 'If all the framework conditions are right, he could imagine it'.
There wasn't any more exchange, ”said Kosicke.
And further: “That is why this is a topic that is not even emerging at the moment.
That's still a long way off. "
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Kosicke described a choice between national coach and sports director at Schalke as “currently purely hypothetical.
At Schalke there will be talks in the next few days at the earliest and we don't know whether the DFB will approach Ralf ».
In the event that Schalke and the German Football Association should actually make offers for Rangnick, "it would be a mega luxury problem for him to choose between the emotional club task or Germany's favorite child national team."
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Interview Marc Kosicke on "Sport1"
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