DFB team against France
“Come together for a moment”: trio around Völler before a test of strength
Rudi Völler (M), Sandro Wagner (l) and Hannes Wolf will look after the DFB team against France. photo
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National coaching team for two days. Team boss Rudi Völler, Hannes Wolf and Sandro Wagner are on the bench against France this Tuesday. Völler thinks highly of his colleagues.
Sandro Wagner was the loudest. The 35-year-old energetically instructed the national soccer players in their final training. The distribution of roles in the interim team Rudi Völler was clearly visible in the still empty, huge Dortmund stadium at the beginning before the big international test (9 p.m./ARD) against France.
Völler called the players to the meeting with a “Men, get together for a moment” and then observed. Wagner and Hannes Wolf took over the active training.
“Hannes Wolf in the package with Sandro Wagner, who is a bit of his right-hand man at the U20, was a bit my idea,” said Völler, who thinks extremely highly of Wolf. The 42-year-old was introduced as sports director for “young talent, training and development” at the end of August, and Völler had already given high praise. “As many people know, he was also a coach at Bayer Leverkusen for a short time,” said Völler about their time together when he was sports director at Bayer. “I could already feel the fire burning in him.”
Wolf and Wagner should provide “new impulses”.
Together with ex-national player Wagner (35), who had the first coaching experience of his young career as a coach at SpVgg Unterhaching and then moved to Wolf’s U20, Wolf could provide “a few new impulses” in a short time “To get a few more percent out of the meetings, in the units”. A “few new faces” were important to him, “that’s why Hannes is a very important figure,” said Völler.
The trio will take over for the France game at short notice because the DFB parted ways with Hansi Flick as national coach on Sunday. A successor is being sought. Völler himself said on Monday that returning to the team boss position 19 years after his resignation was a unique thing for him. He did not speak for Wolf and Wagner.