A day after the humiliating defeat in Frankfurt ends of Bayern Munich and coach Niko Kovac separate. Main responsible for the current mess President Uli Hoeness, is DW-editor, Sarah Wiertz says.
“Boredom comes soon enough” had Uli Hoeness said on Wednesday on the sidelines of the basketball game of FC Bayern against Real Madrid. His answer actually referred to the question after the exciting fight to the table top? Or perhaps rather on the question as to the whereabouts of the head coach of the football Department? Or, he played perhaps his future pensioners life after the imminent departure from the presidency?
Twelve days before Uli Hoeness divorce at the General meeting of FC Bayern from his office as President and his chairmanship of the Supervisory Board will make, is really what is at the Säbener Strasse: The club and coach Niko Kovac to separate amicably, as it says in the press release. Actually, Kovac should take care of the team in the important two Games in the Champions League game against Olympiakos Piraeus on Wednesday and a Bundesliga match against Borussia Dortmund on Saturday, but Kovac himself has offered his resignation.
Hoeness as Kovac advocates
Another setback for Hoeness, who was sitting the day before with a petrified face in the stands of the Frankfurt Arena and had to see how his team of the hosts literally was presented – it was the highest Bundesliga defeat for ten years. So, shortly before his retirement from the important Offices at FC Bayern Munich, the club he regarded as his life’s work, must Uli Hoeness this 1:5-defeat as a personal humiliation felt. He was the one that brought Niko Kovac to Munich, contrary to the arguments of Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who wanted to commit to, among other things, Thomas Tuchel. Also, it was Hoeness who had preserved Kovac last autumn, before the premature trainer of dismissal, as the FC Bayern – similar to now, a year later, the success did not materialize.
DW-editor, Sarah Wiertz
Kovac has made as a coach, error, on and off the court: His defensive tactics had been eyeing from the beginning of club officials, of Fans, of players, is critical. With his honesty, not wool, he would sacrifice as he Frequently stress, has he played himself into the Offside. Public audience favorite and a figure of identification Thomas Müller as a stopgap label, of the team to arrange in front of the camera the quality of to refer to opposing Fans at the press conference as the best in the world, is just not smart. Especially if the results are not correct.
A Vision, but no strategy
Particularly clever is also the club officials were not, however, in the last few years. It is the Vision that FC Bayern Munich will soon win again in the Champions League alone, the strategy is missing. There is neither a philosophy of the game, for which the FCB is still a harmonious squad compilation, for the last two years, sport Director Hasan Salihamidzic is responsible. This was also a Problem for Niko Kovac.
Hoeness has dominated, as he emphasizes time and time again, the FC Bayern Munich – in his short time as a player, as well as in its long Era as Manager, President and Chairman of the Board. In the past few years, he has harmed the club more than further developed. With its unqualified, emotional Expressions, his idiosyncratic choices and because he was not ready to give up Power. In two weeks he will be adopted to the public at the General Assembly and is currently the fourth without a coach. He wanted it even so. The Boredom comes soon enough.