Well, there’s a man like that, and his call is Ralf Rangnick, and he gave Leipzig enthusiasts the best Christmas deal last year, to crown the dream of starting in the football elite in the Bundesliga and Europe.
“I am glad that my long journey is in this wonderful club, that it has undergone a progression and that, in my opinion, it still has a long way to go,” Ralf Rangnick said following the signing announcement of a two-year contract extension. The club’s sporting director until 2021 has leaked through the smart temperament of the club’s Christmas party last year.
“He is the sports engine of our club and is therefore essential for our long-term development,” added RBL CEO Oliver Mintzlaf, who, along with Rangnick, is one of the sensible men pushing the club forward and up with all the power. packaged in one of the cans sold internationally through Leipzig’s billionaire owner, Array Red Bull tycoon Dietrich Mateschitz.
“This is a very sign for our partnership, especially in terms of continuity, sustainable structures and development.
Positive for Leipzig, but negative for all, both nationally and Europeanly, given Rangnick’s central role on the Bundesliga podium in 2009 and UEFA Champions League participants in eight years.
In short, but what is exaggerated for the maximum is not for Rangnick, there is no doubt that this is what he had in mind when he joined the Red Bull team, as sporting director of Leipzig and his brother of the club across the border with Austria in Salzburg, in June 2012.
His educational demeanor earned him the nickname of “ teacher ” in the German media when, as a little-known coach of the Bundesliga 2 in Ulm in 1998, he gave the impression on national television that even the football fan , The top protégé, I would admit now. “But make no mistake, Rangnick is willing to take a threat to his reputation.
Leipzig, then fourth in German football, were even the first club to tempt Rangnick with a move that surprised many.
Video: Promotion of the Bundesliga in Leipzig
He had already guided Schalke to the position at the time in the 2004/05 Bundesliga and tested the UEFA Champions League when he was attracted to Hoffenheim, then third, in 2006, with the possibility of a club legend. He left five years later with this sure legacy, and after laying the groundwork for the team that Julian Nagelsmann – Rangnick’s disciple – took fourth place last season.
The bet, calculated in the incredibly sharp spirit of rangnick, has of course paid off in Leipzig, where its 3K policy – Kapital, Konzept and Kompetenz – money, concept and capacity have been dreamily aligned.
“If those 3 elements come together, you can succeed. If you only have one or two, it’s harder,” he told Deutsche Welle before throwing a justified-looking sweep opposite to those claiming the good fortune of the club bought over millions. Mateschitz.
“Our club still comes down to the monetary muscle of its owner. There are a lot of clubs in the Bundesliga like this. In other words, the Bundesliga table correlates with club budgets. If so, the table would be very different. “
Even Rangnick does not deny the fact that Mateschitz’s deep wallet helped boost Leipzig’s rise – “Help when you don’t have to count every euro,” he admitted – and the club unleashed fury in 2014 when they reached eighth among top consumers in the moving market on a chart covering Germany’s two most sensitive divisions.
But although Leipzig have spent money, he has done so wisely and adheres zealously to the policy that Rangnick has already used wisely at the Hoffenheim to hire promising young players. approval of the top hedge fund manager not easy, who would cheerfully applaud Keita’s return when she moves to Liverpool next summer.
Rangnick are those moves, convincing players like Orban, who had the selection of the most productive German clubs and many others beyond the Bundesliga when he left Kaiserslautern in 2015, Leipzig was the ideal place.
“I told him I was taking care of myself and what will happen and can happen to us,” Rangnick, who, with the club unsuccessfully looking for a full-time coach, took the reins before the 2015/16 promotion season. After a night’s sleep, Orban called, “Herr Rangnick, I’m going to see him. “
The fact that the arrival of the center-back marked the beginning of his progression towards one of Germany’s most promising defenders will not be unexpected for Rangnick, who – given the blank sheet that Leipzig had in 2012 – knew how to give the plan for the type of club and player he wanted.
“We’re really in our systems. The players we have are able to know our taste for the game. We wondered, “What do we need to play?” After that, we detected and signed players who met our conditions. said the former chief of Stuttgart and Hanover.
“What’s attractive is that they all came here with the concept of development. “
Rangnick and, his two seasons in the Bundesliga, Hasenh-ttl, have played a direct role on the educational floor where the professor’s cutting-edge strategies have been essential to generate one of the Most Exciting Offensive Sets in the Bundesliga.
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“Tic-tac can be frustrating for them at first, however, we’ve found that this kind of education can help players in just a few weeks,” Rangnick said, explaining the structure of a traditional watch that players can hear when they play. education: 8 seconds to retrieve the ball, ten seconds to shoot at goal. “They adjust their taste for the game and it becomes an instinct. They hope to play faster. “
A scary idea for the other 31 countries at next summer’s World Cup is that Gerguyy may have been even better off with Rangnick, the guy Klinsguyn first sought out as an assistant coach, was turned down and had to opt for Joachim Lew.
Instead, the game of “what can be . . . “will be played on the national and continental stage, and this can be an equally discouraging perspective for those who will face Leipzig in the future.
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“I already have in my head the symbol of what will be that day here in Leipzig,” Rangnick said as he embarked on the 2015/16 campaign, which would end with a historic first position in the Bundesliga.
Since this vision has become a truth and the evolution of things ever since, Leipzig enthusiasts can begin to dream, fortunately, of what their discreet, visionary and intelligent street sports director has in his head now. It’ll be like all his Christmases come at the same time. Time.
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