Haven't thought of Peter Pacult for a long time.
But the fact is, we Germans sometimes misunderstand the needs of our neighbors.
Current example: Austria, football department, keyword Ralf Rangnick.
The football genius, just on the bench at Manchester United, should now lead Austria to the highest spheres.
everyone happy?
one not.
“What do we train new trainers for year after year if they are out of the question anyway?” asks Pacult, outraged at the appointment of a German “professor who wants to teach others”.
Now one could object, even to a man like Pacult, whose time as coach of TSV 1860 Munich, the most important club in the world, was only two decades ago, that a professor who does not want to teach others is in some respects missing his job like a striker who refuses to take a shot on goal.
But that sounds like it again – German.
And that's the crux of the matter here.
Mainz's Franco Foda has just coached Austria's best past another World Cup, which no one can prove they wouldn't have won with an Austrian coach, and now they have to continue recovering from German coaching.
Poor Austria.