In the middle of this week, the fourth round of the Champions League group stage was over, with Liverpool in Group B, Ajax in Group C, Bayern in Group E and Juventus in Group H winning all four games and qualifying from their respective groups ahead of schedule.
In the very average G group, a civil war between German young marshals in this round is quite interesting.
The Bundesliga side Wolfsburg, which has just undergone a coaching change last week, takes on Austrian Side Salzburg. Wolfsburg's coach is 39-year-old Coffert.
The latter's head coach is also Yaisler from Germany, only 33 years old.
As a result, Wolfsburg beat Salzburg 2-1 at home, and Kofirth won two consecutive victories after taking office; while Jaisler's side, despite suffering its first defeat of the season, still led Group G with 2 wins, 1 draw, and 7 points, and still had the initiative to advance.
33 years old pk 39 years old, German young marshal of the civil war
Group G is almost the least present in the 8 groups of the Champions League, although there are Sevilla, Wolfsburg and Lille from the three major leagues, but they are all barely second-rate teams in their respective leagues, plus Salzburg from the Austrian League, there are no top teams among them, there are no traffic stars, but because of this, the strength of the four teams is very close, it is a group of deaths in another sense.
At the end of the three rounds of the group stage, who would have thought that Salzburg, with 2 wins and 1 draw, would lead by 4 points. The 33-year-old German young coach Jaisler made a splash in the Champions League in his first season in charge of the team. The match against Wolfsburg was scheduled for the earliest match in the early hours of Wednesday morning Beijing time, and if Salzburg can beat Wolfsburg, Salzburg will become the first team to advance to the round of 16 in the Champions League this season, which will undoubtedly create a miracle for the club.
The recent situation at Wolfsburg is somewhat bad. Under the leadership of dutchman Van Bommel, the team finished at the bottom of the group in three rounds of the Champions League, and the league results were also miserable, last week the club could not bear to change the coach, the 39-year-old German coach Kofirth took over the coaching whip, the effect was immediate, in last weekend's Bundesliga 2-0 defeat to fourth-place Bayer Leverkusen, a strong rebound.
Therefore, the Champions League battle between Wolfsburg and Salzburg has become the pk stage for the two German young managers. The two had never played each other before, and although Kofirth had coached Bremen, Jaisler had only become Salzburg manager this summer, having only coached in youth or lower divisions.
Born on 5 April 1988, Jaisler played mainly for Hoffenheim as a defender, and his highest career moment was in the 2007/2008 season, when he rose from Bundesliga to Bundesliga with Hoffenheim, making 22 appearances in one season, scoring 2 goals as a defender, when he was only 20 years old, full of vigor and promising prospects. In the 2008/2009 season, Jaisler made 22 more appearances with the team in the Bundesliga, and was the hero of the team's victory in the bundesliga halfway title and the miracle of promotion.
But in a match against Hanover at the end of March 2009, Jaisler's crucifixion torn ligament, which was about to turn his 21st birthday, became a turning point in his career, and he has rarely had a chance to play in the Bundesliga since then.
As a result of the injury, Yaisler, who was 26 at the age of 26, was forced to retire in 2014 and started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Red Bull Leipzig U16. In 2017 he moved to Brondby, Denmark as an assistant coach, and in 2019 he returned to Leipzig as the team's u18 manager. In January this year, he was invited to coach the Austrian second division team Levlin, leading the team to 17 games to achieve 11 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, and finally the team was relegated to the second place with a goal difference and could not be promoted to the Olympic Division.
This summer, former Salzburg boss Marsh moved to Red Bull Leipzig to coach, while Jaisler was recruited to Salzburg as manager. In this season's Olympic First Division, Jaisler led Salzburg to a record ten-game winning streak, and led by seven points in the first three rounds of the Champions League.
Kofirth is six years older and more experienced than Jaisler, having previously coached Bremen and being voted the DFB's Best Coach of the Year 2018 at the age of 36.
In this Champions League match between the German young marshals, in the end, Kofirth defeated Jaisler 2-1, Wolfsburg won two consecutive victories after the new manager took office, and Salzburg suffered the first defeat in all competitions of the season, but they are still the leaders of the group, and the fate of qualifying is still in their own hands - the Champions League prospects of both young managers are still good.
It is no accident that Germany's young elite coaches blew up
The pk of these two German young coaches on the Stage of the Champions League is just a microcosm of the popularity of German coaches in European football in recent years. Seven of this season's Champions League round of 32 are from Germany, including German defending champions Chelsea Tuchel, title favourites Bayern Nagelsmann and Liverpool's Klopp. Last season's Champions League Quarter-Finals gathered four German coaches, while the 2018/2019 Champions League Final Four gathered three German managers for the first time.
More importantly, these excellent German coaches are showing a trend of younger and younger, Nagelsmann has been well known to fans, and now Jaisler's popularity is also rising, and his blockbuster in the Austrian First Division and Champions League has not only attracted the attention of many Bundesliga clubs, but also attracted the attention of Barca, who are changing coaches.
It is no accident that these young elite German coaches have emerged in recent years, and it is necessary to mention the Hellers Weissweiler Academy. This academy can be called the Whampoa Military Academy of German football, since its establishment has trained a large number of well-known coaches such as Frick, Loew, Tuchel, Klopp, Nagelsman, Tedesco, Tedesko and so on for German football, it has sent a large number of coaching talents for Germany, and rejuvenation has become the mainstream.
Frick was a student of the college's Class of 2003, and Frick's graduation grade was the first place at the time. Tuchel was a graduate in 2005 when his written test score was perfect. Kofirth is the 2015 winner. Nagelsman was a 2016 graduate with the second place at the time, and the first place in that class was Tedesco.
Looking at the success trajectories of Tuchel, Nagelsmann, Kofirth and Jaisler, one thing they have in common is that if they cannot become a professional player or extend their careers for various reasons, they become an elite coach through weissweiler academy.
The Weissweiler Academy enrolls only 24 students a year and the range of students is very broad: it can be former professional players, youth academy coaches who study sports science, or coaches who have performed well in semi-professional leagues.
The academy will first go through the first round of screening and issue 80 offers. The 80 were required to pass two written exams and one practical training, and the top 24 were formally admitted for a 10-month training. The college is not only imparting theoretical knowledge, their teaching activities and practice are closely related, many courses are carried out on the football field, everything starts from the actual battle, and the teaching content can be applied to the actual game. The content of the teaching is all-encompassing, from how to arrange physical training to how to mix diet and nutrition, from how to mobilize the players' pre-game psychology to how to coordinate the work of the club.
At the end of the 10-month training, each student is required to complete a graduation thesis of at least 15 pages to describe their football philosophy, and is required to pass the exam, oral exam and practical training to become an important part of the exam.
In the field of football coach training, Germans also carry forward their rigorous spirit, strictly control the quality and quality of students, at the same level, Young coaches in Germany have a deeper thinking and understanding of football than young coaches in other countries, and it is not surprising that their coaches occupy an increasingly heavy proportion in European football.
Source: Morning News Sports