In addition to Hoffenheim's last-minute victory over Freiburg, Frankfurt scored five goals in a row to reverse Bayer Leverkusen, and Leipzig, who had just welcomed new coach Tedesko, "changed the coach like a knife", and rose to 7th place in the table after a 4-1 victory over Borussia Moncheng.
Last week, after the irreconcilable dismissal of U.S. coach Mahe, RB Leipzig finally chose German coach Tedesko to take over the team's coaching whip and sign until 2023. The combination of young coaches and young teams undoubtedly shows that Leipzig's youthful path has been effectively continued, and Tedesko's "debut" performance in coaching the team has brought great surprises.
It seems that the future of Leipzig is already in the hands of the 36-year-old young marshal!
[I've never played professional football, and my main job is actually an auto mechanic]
Tedesco was born in September 1985 in the Italian town of Rossano. As the son of an immigrant, unlike many excellent coaches from the stars, Tedesco never played football seriously, and even worked as a printer in a local newspaper as a young man. Later, after becoming famous as a coach, Tedesco confessed in an interview: "One of the goals I remembered most happened when I was a kid when I completed a oolong ball with my heels in A team's U7 training..."
Throughout Tedesco's so-called playing career, he only played briefly for ASV Aichwald, a team in Germany's 8th division, and led a group of children as young as 6 and 7 years old to train football in his spare time. At this time, as a mechanic graduate, Tedesco's main job was actually to work on the design of car comfort improvements and car audio at a subcontractor company owned by Mercedes-Benz.
However, this kind of work and life has not changed Tedesco's love and understanding of football! Especially in the process of leading children to train, Tedesco gradually developed his own ideas for football. So, as an auto mechanic, Tedesko wrote a letter directly and sent it to Stuttgart, the traditional bundesliga team, asking if he could go to the scene to observe the training of the U9 echelon in Stuttgart.
It was an honour for Stuttgart's youth coordinator Thomas Ahlbeck not only to receive the letter, but even to accept Tedesko's request and invite him to the club for an exchange. In this regard, the prepared Tedesko fully seized the opportunity to show the Stuttgart youth training team his method of training children in amateurs, which surprised Ahlbeck at once - because Tedesco's training method was not only effective but also very interesting, which made the children's acceptance and welcome beyond everyone's expectations.
It didn't take long for Tedesko to be hired as an amateur assistant coach by the Stuttgart U9 echelon. Don't underestimate this profession, the exceptionally dedicated and cherished Tedesco "felt the pressure for the first time" in football! According to Tedesko, "Because you are leading a small player in Stuttgart, you can never play a 1-0 game with a certain baby army, your team must play 5-0." ”
As Tedesco said, his team did! As a result, Tedesko, with his outstanding record, continued to climb the echelons at all levels in Stuttgart. At the age of 28, Tedesko quit his mechanic job at the car factory and began working full-time as assistant coach of the Stuttgart U17 team, and he was assisted by Thomas Schneider, the assistant coach of the German national team.
[Starting from the amateur assistant coach of the U9 team, the full score of the Weissweiler Academy]
At the end of August 2013, with Schneider's promotion to the Stuttgart professional team, Tedesko fuzheng became the head coach of the Stuttgart U17 team. It was in this position that Tedesco immediately handed over the proud answer.
In the 2014-15 season, Tedesko led the Stuttgart U17 team all the way to the U17 Bundesliga final, but unfortunately lost 0-4 to Borussia Dortmund, who owned Paslak and Pulisic. It is worth mentioning that the manager of the Dortmund U17 team is the other young marshal Wolff who has since led Stuttgar to the Bundesliga.
At the end of the season, Tedesco was tapped by the discerning Hoffenheim to succeed Nagelsmann as manager of the Hors village U19 youth team. That's right, this Nagelsmann is the current manager of Bayern Munich! At this time, the 28-year-old Nagelsmann has been promoted to the first team of Hoffenheim, and even took over the team's coaching whip in the final stages of the season, leading Hoffenheim, who is the "deputy squad leader" of the Bundesliga, to complete the relegation miracle.
This was the first intersection of Tedesco and Nagelsman. Shortly thereafter, he "defeated" his predecessor in another field.
In the summer of 2016, Tedesko and Nagelsmann graduated at the Heines-Weissweiler Academy, a professional academy dedicated to the training of outstanding coaching talents in cooperation with the German Football Association and the renowned Cologne Sports Academy (about 20 new professional coaches are trained every year), and only those who receive a diploma from the academy are eligible to coach in the German Professional League. As the youngest and best student of the course, Tedesco eventually graduated with a perfect score of 1.0 (1 out of 1, the worst of 6).
Perhaps, the outside world can not see the infinite efforts made by "Champion" Tedesco here, but the truth of one point of hard work and one point of harvest is eternal. This result has earned Tedesco a reputation as a "coach with perfect scores" and speaking as a student representative at the graduation ceremony held by the Heins-Weissweiler Academy... It should be pointed out that Nagelsman scored a high score of 1.3 in the graduation exam, becoming the "eye of the list" behind Tedesco.
With such a performance, coupled with the outstanding record of coaching the youth team, Tedesko attracted the attention of Bundesliga team O'Er in March 2017. At this time, with 11 rounds left in the Bundesliga, O'Er is at the bottom of the table and is definitely mired in relegation. As a result, the top brass of "dead horses as live horse doctors" pinned their hopes on Tedesco, who had never had professional team coaching experience. "Frankly, the risks of this work outweigh the opportunities." Tedesco was very honest, but he resolutely accepted the challenge after the field trip!
[Leading the miners to win the Bundesliga runner-up, the Ruhr derby scored a four-goal draw]
Although he was in charge of a professional league team for the first time, Tedesco quickly developed his coaching talents at Oe. After finding the heel of the team's defensive set-piece, Tedesco quickly came up with countermeasures and the right medicine, and the team's performance immediately warmed up, and finally miraculously completed the relegation task - Tedesco has since called his name in German football.
Looking back on this season, another young marshal, Nagelsmann, led Hoffenheim from relegation to Champions League qualification. It can be seen that the storm of young coaches in German football has become unstoppable! Therefore, the sporting director of the traditional Bundesliga giants Schalke 04, who witnessed 11 relegation matches in Oær, made up his mind to invite Tedesko to the team in the summer of 2017, making Tedesco the youngest manager in Schalke's history.
From auto mechanic, to youth assistant coach, to Bundesliga, to pick up the bundesliga team's coaching whip, Tedesco's speed of fame is so unexpected, and his growth experience is like an inspirational story!
Of course, this is only the beginning, not the end. As for Tedesco's arrival at the Miners, the public must already know that on the basis of only 11 Bundesliga coaching experiences, Tedesco's first Bundesliga season in charge brought the previously turbulent Schalke to the league runner-up position, during which there was also the season's "Rulder derby" classic game that chased 4 goals in a row and successfully drew!
As Schalke's internal problems could not be concealed, Tedesko led the team to the Champions League knockout rounds in his second season in charge, but the team's poor league record made him "dismissed" in March 2019. After that, Tedesko moved to Russia in October 2019 as head coach of Sparta Moscow.
In the Russian Premier League, Tedesko continued to show his coaching talent. Last season, he led the team to a runner-up in the league and was given the chance to qualify for the Champions League. However, due to different ideas, he terminated his contract with the club at the end of the season, thus gaining a free reincarnated body. It is reported that the Russian media once reported that Tedesko was expected to take over the News of the Russian national team.
[Conclusion: From the Russian Super League back to the Bundesliga, Tedesko's coaching road is just beginning]
Coming to this season, the re-coached Bundesliga teams Wolfsburg and Hertha Berlin have also had a scandal with Tedesko. It wasn't until last week that Leipzig's appearance allowed Tedesko to finally find the best stage, and his coaching debut was well received. There is no doubt that as a 36-year-old young marshal, Tedesco's coaching path is still in its infancy, and his coaching talent seems to have plenty of time and space to be unleashed.
Just after Leipzig beat Borussia Monchengong 4-1 last weekend, German football star Hamann said: "Leipzig played very well. They are more threatening and more aggressive. This has long been their standout. Looking at the first half, Leipzig created a large number of scoring opportunities. So, Tedesco's debut was really great! ”