Turid Knaak: “time to react to changes on the offensive”

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The DFB-women make up three weeks before the world Cup-beginning with a provocative advertisement to draw attention. National player Turid Knaak, speaks in a DW Interview about the idea behind it, its DFB-career and doctoral dissertation.

DW: Mrs. Knaak, a commercial for a sponsor, has recently caused quite a stir. There, the game will present on the inside of the DFB-Elf, naughty and also a little ambiguous. Fits not to the actual conservative Image of the DFB. How do you rate this new approach to the Public?

Turid Knaak: I think you can see from the reactions that it was time to do that, to react in time on the offensive. I think that it is good rather than bad. It is the right way, the DFB is gone.

The players act in the Spot, naughty and open. Will occur the team so well in the world Cup?

I think this is a trait of our team. We have a good mix. There are also some young, wild game are on the inside. We are in character, so that we want to be fresh to which.

It used to be different?

I can’t judge, because it will be my first world Cup. But I do believe that there are now strong characters in women’s football. And that’s super, especially for the Public.

You mentioned your first world Cup. You are 28 years old. Why has it not worked in the past?

I am 24 years ever for the national team have been invited to, have hurt me then but hard. After the tibia and fibula, I had to me again only two years of pre-fight. Now I get the Chance. It is a pleasure for me to be able to take this step so late in the career yet to make.

Were you expecting it?

Of course, I hoped. I was before the injury already in the atmosphere of the team. And now it worked.

In your Bundesliga club, the food SGS, you will be a leader on the field. In the national team with seven missions, they are rather at the beginning. How do you see your role in France?

Of course, I belong to the most inexperienced game, what relates to the DFB. But due to my many Bundesliga games, and also some of the titles I’ve won over the years, I bring also a certain experience. I would like to contribute my part, that we come very far.

How realistic is it that you are in the first Eleven?

The first Eleven will crystallize out in the next few weeks. I will give everything to get as much as possible use time. I can’t do that.

With Martina Voss-Tecklenburgist a new trainer in the responsibility. Where the focus of your work?

You can tell that she wants to bring us individually. We have a lot of one-on-One trained, in the technology filed. But she has also worked on the tactics of the team: How do we want to work against the Ball, how and in which amount we want to attack, how compact are we? She’s got a pretty detailed Plan, and we implemented it last quite well.

The team relies more on possession of the ball, or rather the counter-attack?

I think we have the self-confidence to be a team that determined the game. We are more likely to be no Team running back and on the counter-attack lurking. It will be the goal, that we are the dominant team in the game.

As the national coach because – in the strictest, friendly, determined?

We laugh a lot with her. She is always up for a good spell. And you can laugh about the jokes from the team. But you and we can also kill in the right Moment the switch. Then she also has a certain Rigor and authority that have to have a trainer.

What is the difference between Martina Voss-Tecklenburg of Horst Hrubesch, who managed the Team before?

Horst Hrubesch was the fatherly type, but could also be strict. Ultimately, both have a very good mix of proximity to the team, but also Rigorous and distance. Martina also takes the game to the side for a private conversation. So much So they do not differ so.

How large is the tension in the Team so shortly before the tournament?

We have felt for all the fun to the competition for places in the world Cup squad. Of course, everyone wanted to be there. Now it’s about who plays and who doesn’t. I do not believe, however, that we will be driving a Team, in the now, the elbow out. We know that we need to pull together.

Turid Knaak: Aspiring PhD student in the DFB Jersey

In men’s soccer it belongs to, the elbow is extended. Women are different?

I think so short before the tournament, the elbow must extend over. Now we are a Team that pursues a goal. Now, everyone must accept the role that is allotted to him.

What is surprising is that you have to go to work shortly before the world Cup. You are working on your doctoral thesis on the subject of law, promoting writing – in addition to the WM-preparation stress. Many players in the world Cup squad not to make sure of that. Why did you choose the double burden?

In the national team I am with my work, of course, more the exception, along with two others. But in the Bundesliga, some in-game take the inside on the side work. For me, it works quite well. My boss supports me. The thesis must rest now wait a couple of weeks.

Can you combine in women’s football, Sport and at work well?

I think the teams that play in the Champions League as VfL Wolfsburg and FC Bayern, is difficult. In Essen it is not something a family, we are not quite as professional as the top clubs. We train in the afternoon, so I can during the day to go to the University of Cologne to work. I, myself, can agree well together. As a woman footballer, you have to watch also, that you build something for after the career. I think you can count the number of players, the earn really good and close to it, to have out, on two hands. This is the absolute top Match of the day are, for example, in the United States. But in Germany, only very few women are able to live from football, and afterwards, to go to work. I like it but to be off the course cognitively challenged. This is also a good balance.

What desire they have personally for this tournament?

On the one hand, I want to enjoy every second of the game, because to me 28 years, of course, aware that I have so many opportunities. I wish I had as much time as possible and that we will not get very far. If these factors are met, I would end up very happy.

How important winning the title is?

The experience is one thing, but to take part never in a tournament without wanting to win. The competition is naturally big. But Germany is a Nation always has the Chance to win such a tournament.

Midfielder Turid Knaak has in 2017, the Bundesliga side SGS Essen under the contract. She previously played for FCR Duisburg 2001 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen, and was temporarily on loan to FC Arsenal. Knaak is working as a PhD student and a research assistant at the faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Cologne.

The Interview was conducted by Jörg straw dummy.