The DFB-“the Trainer of football of 2018” goes to the young coach of Werder Bremen, Florian Kohfeldt. Not only the DFB is full of praise for the 36-Year-old.
The DFB has awarded Florian Kohfeldt as Germany’s “coach of the year 2018”. The 36-Year-old in October of 2017, head coach of Bundesliga side Werder Bremen and has made him from a relegation candidate to a contender for a Europa Cup place. Kohfeldts team is currently eighth in the German DFB Cup after the eighth finalcoup in Dortmund in the round of the best Eight. Werder occurs at the 3. April, at FC Schalke 04.
The says
– the DFB about Kohfeldt:
DFB President Reinhard Grindel: “Florian Kohfeldt has a flair for the development of talent and just dealing with older players, which are not always easy to care for. Under him, Werder Bremen is playing fresh, exciting and successful football. I am sure that his coaching career has started in the Bundesliga.”
DFB-Director Oliver Bierhoff: “He exudes a contagious enthusiasm, the players rave about his open and authentic. For Werder Bremen, he is a godsend.”
– Werder Bremen over Kohfeldt:
Managing Director Frank Baumann: “I experience him as very single-minded, incredibly meticulous Trainer with a clear idea of how he wants to play football. The collaboration with him is characterized by professionalism, mutual respect, but also openness to new ideas and external approaches.”
– his Team about Kohfeldt:
Nuri Sahin: “This mixture of proximity and distance, I had never been, although I had with Jürgen Klopp, a coach who was close to the players. Always when I come, is Florian Kohfeldt here. I don’t know, when he is at home. He loves his Job, throw it in there.”
Always engaged and in the middle of it: Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt
Max Kruse: “He wanted to, that we are convinced of his idea. He took us to his way. Our game shows that there’s a Plan.”
Claudio Pizarro: “The players would do everything for this coach. I think he is a great coach in Germany.”
Fin Bartels: “He has tactical know-how. He works every day meticulously. And he gets the human component so that, under a hat.”
Theodor Gebre Selassie: “He is probably the best coach I’ve ever had in my career.”
– Kohfeldt about Kohfeldt:
“I am generally very clear in what I want. But the way there is hopefully characterized by entrainment. I look exactly: What a man, what drives him? I think you have to as a coach. The a are the purely sporting, factual decisions. This is always the first thought, but then there is a second level: What I am with this decision in the group? What happens if I prefer these or those? Thus, a group is formed.”