Before games, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg likes to iron a round – “that’s when I calm down mentally”. The national coach will need resistance to stress in the next few weeks of the World Cup.
Love is “such a big word” when dealing with players. For Martina Voss-Tecklenburg it is still “in this direction”. Despite the increased popularity, the national coach of the German soccer team continues to be open about her emotions.
In the next few weeks of the World Cup, it will be even more in focus than at and after the successful EM 2022 in England. Of course, the 55-year-old knows very well that the sporting pressure at the tournament in Australia and New Zealand is enormous.
Voss-Tecklenburg embodies the much-cited terms of authenticity and visibility, which are supposed to set women’s football apart from the professional business of men, best. No questions about private life? Not with her. In an NDR documentary about the native of Duisburg, both her former friend and trainer from KBC Duisburg, Jürgen Krust, her former partner Inka Grings, her husband Hermann Tecklenburg and her daughter Dina have their say.
Trust in players and employees at the DFB
“In this whole documentary process, I didn’t think too much about how others might see it now. I’m just a very open person who mostly stands by what he does in his life,” said Voss-Tecklenburg days in an interview with the “Frankfurter Rundschau”. “I’m proud of the fact that I’m respectful and friendly with both Jürgen and Inka, or today with my husband Hermann, even though we’ve walked different paths in life.”
Daughter Dina has now made the national coach a proud grandmother, Lima is the name of the little one. Entrepreneur Tecklenburg also flies to Australia, and Voss-Tecklenburg has a reliable friendship with Grings: “Of course it was difficult at times, but if the people weren’t valuable, I wouldn’t have spent this time with them.”
“Really unshakable” is her trust in her players and the staff at the DFB. Defender Felicitas Rauch said: “I think Martina manages to find the balance between communication and appreciation and to allow the players their freedom in certain phases. On the pitch, but also off the pitch.”
“We don’t want to be compared to men”
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Source: Stern
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