“It’s not an issue for me,” says Oliver Glasner, current coach of the German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, when asked about a possible successor as Franco Foda’s Austrian team boss on “Sky”. “I’m here at Eintracht and we have such great tasks ahead of us. I also feel good at the club, in the whole city, so it’s not an issue for me.”
But the 47-year-old from Salzburg admits: “I’ve often said – and I stand by that – that a team boss in your own country is the greatest thing you can achieve as a coach. That’s why it might be on my ‘bucket list’. On the other sides, I’ve always set myself the goal of not sitting on the coaching bench until I’m 70, not even as national coach, where you may not be on the pitch every day, but you’re still constantly on the move. That’s why I don’t know. But it’s over In my opinion, definitely one of the top jobs you can have.”
He cannot understand the criticism of the old team boss Foda: “I think it’s far too much and far too superficial criticism that has been expressed. I think that many have not put themselves in it: What does it really look like when you’re team boss?”
An implementation of the Red Bull philosophy that is so often demanded is simply hardly feasible for the ex-LASK coach: “What do you want to train in three days? That’s not possible. If you want to bring something into a team, you need training time and you don’t have that as a team boss. That’s why I think that way too much criticism was shot out and people didn’t even look very closely at how it actually is.”
Source: Nachrichten
