Bundesliga

Comment: A bad example

Roger Schmidt refuses, despite the prompt, the Coaching Zone to leave and provoking a stoppage in play. This is not only unprofessional, but arrogant, says DW editor Olivia Gerstenberger.

Are no longer friends: referee Zwayer (l.) and coach Schmidt (r.)

No, Roger Schmidt is not the first football coach, disagrees with the referee. He is also not the first to loudly proclaiming and the tribune will be sent. But he is the first who refuses the instruction of the Umpire to follow. This is not only unprofessional, but even arrogant. A football coach who refuses the instructions of the referee to follow, is not only disrespectful, but very bad advice. He will always pull the Shorter – we learn in the F-youth. And what a role model for his players is a coach that the instructions of the referee resists? Felix Zwayer had nothing else, as the game is so long as to interrupt, to Schmidt, the interior of the Arena had left. This is compliant to the rules. And a novelty in the Bundesliga.

DW editor Olivia Gerstenberger

One might argue that the referee Zwayer it renounced Schmidt, who had previously repeatedly by unfair behavior against the with the referees had noticed, in a personal conversation on the stands to send. But the gesture “with Eye contact” was clear. There might be a little bit more finesse – but accountability must not be a referee before a Trainer (or player). He was too stubborn to have been, admitted Roger Schmidt after all, after the game, pushed and then immediately after: “But in a tight game the referee shall more sense.” Insight sounds different.

Rudi Völler mixes a

To make it worse to make kartete ourselves Leverkusen sporting Director Rudi Völler in an Interview with the TV channel Sky after: He demands that the referee is the personal conversation of addiction, the disruption was completely unnecessary and finally, it must be Leverkusen after carefully been prejudiced because Felix Zwayer have Bayer a clear penalty for handball, intentionally denied.

It is not the first Time that Völler from the role. He should learn, after a heated game to keep his mouth shut – so as coach Schmidt during the game. Despite all of the Emotion, one Thing is clear: the referee whistles, is the law. And who has not understood, it must learn. Not by a commotion.