Bob head coach René Spies wants to prevent the best coaches in Germany being poached away and therefore demands better pay.
This is the only way to maintain the top level in the future.
"You can see in different sports, and we don't have to look far, if Georg Hackl goes abroad, it will be very difficult to keep German coaches in the German system because internationally much, much more is paid," said Germany's coach of the year on the sidelines of the World Cup in Winterberg from the German Press Agency.
Spies emphasized: "We're not talking about 10, 20, 30 percent, but about 200 and 300 percent in some cases.
It's the same with our sports.
And that with nations that are not even among the top 4 nations.”
"Not adequate pay"
Spies had already warned of a wrong development at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, where his team won a total of seven medals in February.
Nothing has happened since then.
“At the moment there is no coach salary adjustment.
It is a fundamental problem that runs from the base coach to the national coach.
For me it is still the case that there is no adequate payment for German coaches,” said the 49-year-old, who was honored by the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) as coach of the year 2022.
Tobogganing success coach Norbert Loch is also familiar with the dilemma.
After the loss of Hackl to the Austrian association, he had to fight for Patric Leitner to stay, who also had better offers abroad.
“We cannot regenerate these funds through sponsors.
We can only do that to a limited extent,” said Loch, who won four gold and two silver medals in Beijing.