2023-04-25 21:39:45
Dry game analyses, concentrated coaching from the sidelines, controlled press conferences. After almost a year as ÖFB team boss has the Austrian TV audience Ralph Rangnick met as a professional expert. He recently proved that he can do things differently when he and his team performed an official song for the European Championship qualification – with humor and, above all, a good dose of self-mockery.
At “Welcome Austria” with the notorious moderator duo Stermann and Grissemann Ralf Rangnick was unusually open on Tuesday. In the late-night living room in St. Marx, the otherwise controlled Swabian (as a guest next to the ORF-Dok1 team Lisa Gadenstätter and Hanno Settele) let one or the other secret elicit.
With a “white G’spritzen” – because “we don’t say white wine spritzer here” – Rangnick said that he was surprised when he Peter Schoettel called Manchester last year. At that time he still had five games to play as interim coach of United, but the Nations League games for the ÖFB were also pending. He then “thinked for two or three days” until he knew that team boss in Austria was “the right job” for him.
“make the qualification”
That many players were eligible for the national team, which he from Salzburg or Leipzig from his position at Red Bull, “certainly also played a role,” he admitted. And that he speaks the same language. However, this quickly turned out to be a fallacy, the difference between Austrian football and the German that Rangnick speaks is greater than expected. But that doesn’t make the Swabians any less confident that together they will qualify for the European Championships in Germany.
“I’m 100 percent convinced that we can qualify for the European Championship,” said Rangnick confidently. But he added that “as few players as possible should be injured”. He doesn’t see a “striker problem”, as some experts have pointed out in recent weeks. Rangnick referred to the two goals by Michael Gregoritsch in Freiburg’s 4-0 win against Schalke on Sunday. “I think the main thing is to make it clear to everyone on the team and on staff that we have a team that can win against everyone,” said Rangnick, referring to past games against Croatia, France and Italy.
Whether a team boss post is a full-time job or not? “It always depends on the team boss himself what you make of it,” said Rangnick. “We’re also trying to advance Austrian football in other areas, and we see it as a full-time job.”
gay players?
And last but not least, there was also the frequently asked question of whether players are allowed to have sex the night before the games. Rangnick dismissed the fact that the national team was always accommodated in hotels before games. “That will fail there due to the lack of women!”
Women? That called the moderators into action. After all, someone could love a man. They wanted to know from the football expert why it is so difficult to come out as a homosexual in the football world. Rangnick referred to the book by German ex-world champion Philipp Lahm, in which no active player recommends coming out for fear of the reaction of the fans. “Obviously we’re not quite as far along as we were at the World Cup with the Rainbow binding have done,” comments Rangnick.
On Wednesday, Ralf Rangnick wants to return to what he probably does best, namely analyzing football matches. The ÖFB team boss will act as a co-commentator Sky accompany the Premier League showdown Manchester City against Arsenal, i.e. second against first, live.
And on June 17th and 20th the next two European Championship qualifiers for the Austrian national soccer team are coming up, against Belgium away and against Sweden in the Ernst Happel Stadium.
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