One treated himself to whiskey and cola, the other opened a keg…
Schnaps trouble for Bayern legend Hermann Gerland (68)!
The longtime assistant coach of the record champions and assistant coach of the German U21 national team was sharply criticized for his high-percentage performance last Sunday in the Sport1 double pass, when he treated himself to several whiskey and cokes. Sender of the criticism: Stefan Effenberg (54)!
The ex-Bayern player and Sport1 expert wrote in his T-online column: “To be honest, I found his appearance questionable. He threw out a few jokes, but his demeanor was still borderline.”
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Effe continues: “As the assistant coach of the German U21 national team, he is responsible for the young players, at the World Cup in Qatar he was still there as Hansi Flick’s assistant coach. Then you can’t sit down on a live show and drink four whiskey cokes at 11 a.m. Because he has a huge role model function, which he may have forgotten after the third glass at the latest.”
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Gerland had been celebrated online for his relaxed appearance. One user wrote: “He treats himself to a whiskey coke at 11 am at DoPa. Great guy.”
Effenberg, on the other hand, doesn’t find it funny at all: “It can’t be that a representative of the older generation is then celebrated for something like that – I can only shake my head. (…) If something like that is approved, then I have big problems with it.”
And further: “You have a responsibility, especially in front of an audience of millions. I’ve never experienced anything like this and it shouldn’t be celebrated. I don’t understand that at all.”
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Even if Effenberg’s line of argument seems understandable in principle, it is questionable whether he is suitable as a prosecutor on this point. The 54-year-old has repeatedly allowed himself to drop out during and after his career, among other things he was caught drunk at the wheel after an Oktoberfest in 2015 – with a blood alcohol content of 1.4. Effenberg, who was then the coach of SC Paderborn, is also said to have become abusive to the officials.
Today, the role model function seems to be very important to the 35-time national player, who was suspended from the DFB team in 1994 after the Stinkefinger affair.
About Gerland he says: “As the holder of the Pro license you are obliged to act as a role model – also in public. That’s why I absolutely don’t understand that Gerland is being celebrated for a supposed cult appearance. Where is the DFB then? For me he should have intervened. Other trainers who failed to live up to their role model function with misconduct in public were severely punished for it.”