Weekly Dose “Klinsmann is bigger than the Swine Flu” Edition
By: Jan | April 28th, 2009Yesterday German news channels were reporting non-stop about the sudden, yet somewhat expected end of Klinsmann’s reign at Bayern Munich. Self-styled pundits were only briefly interrupted by news snippets of potential new swine flu cases, followed by a statement of the leader of the Green/Labour/whatever party on, well, Klinsmann. Germany’s biggest national broadcaster decided to interrupt it’s regular prime time programming for a ten minute special on a possible worldwide pandemic Klinsmann’s sacking. It was bizarre. Today things seem to be back to normal though. Non-stop swine flu reporting is briefly interrupted by news snippets from Jupp Heynckes’ first press conference and so we can close the books on what is essentially just another sacked Bundesliga coach.
- Raphael Honigstein dissects Klinsmann’s shortcomings as a coach and concludes that he may have “shared the fate of so many self-styled revolutionaries: once in power, their idealism soon descends into dictatorship, the dictatorship of the mediocre in Comrade Klinsi’s case.” (The Guardian)
- Here’s Raphael Honigstein again on the Football Weekly podcast for those of you who are too lazy to read. (The Guardian)
- Rob Hughes looks at the contrast between Klinsmann’s ideals and Klinsmann’s players: “His mistake might have been to presume that players want to be empowered. Many just respond to being told how to play.” (New York Times)
- What Raphael and Rob said packaged around Bayern’s night of shame at the Camp Nou. (ESPN Soccernet)
- Erik Kirschbaum meanwhile believes Bayern’s management made a mistake they might live to regret. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
- At least Klinsmann’s sacking helped save Deutsche Welle’s Sean Sinico from pledging his soul to the
devilBavarians. (DW Ballspiel Blog) - The Bundesbag says tschüss to Klinsi. (Some People are on the Pitch)
- The Bundesliga Offside says that Bavarians don’t say tschüss, because they always need to have it their own way. (Handelsblatt – Google Transraped)
Category: FC Bayern Munich
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To be serious, even the media here had been reporting about the swine flu whenever possible. Considering there had been suspected cases so far here in my country.
Come to think of it, it is really bizarre. Klinsmann’s sacking coming at a time when the swine flu outbreak could really get serious.
From what I read so far, Arsene Wenger seems to be highly rated in Germany, doesn’t he? There is an advantage given he does speak German but, I just cannot see him head to Munich. What Rob Hughes wrote in the New York Times hit the nail in the head, and I quote:
‘He shuns them for one reason. He has the freedom at Arsenal to work his alchemy without worrying about being fired on a whim.
It would be unthinkable that Arsenal’s chief executive would swap a business suit for a track suit and scarf, and sit with the coach on the bench, as Höness does at Bayern.
Wenger would not tolerate hearing on television or read in a newspaper that his president, Beckenbauer, regarded the performance in Madrid last month as “schoolboy stuff, the worst I have ever seen Bayern play.’
On the day which was eventually announced Klinsmann got the boot, The Daily Mail claimed that Wenger had turned down the Bayern job. When being asked about that, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge dismissed the speculation.
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