Team boss (trainer)
In the field of sports, a team boss is a specific group of coaches . The word creation originating from Austria is perceived as Anglicism , but consists of the English team , for team, and the French word chef . The term team boss is practically only used in Germany and Austria and is not understood , especially in Anglophone and Francophone cultures.
Austria
Main article: ÖFB team boss
prehistory
From its founding in 1904 until the annexation of Austria , English and Scottish advisors exercised an expressly desired influence on the Austrian Football Association . In addition to adopting organizational structures and sporting concepts, this also led to the introduction of English technical terms with slight Germanizations : e.g. B. left and right back for defenders , left, right and center half for midfielders , team for team, club for (sports) club, manager for (sports) functionary or coach for (sports) instructor . Contrary to what is often shown in shortened reports, the almost omnipotent position of Hugo Meisl and his temporary representative Heinrich Retschury between 1913 and 1938 was not referred to as team boss , but as association captain . Otherwise, Anglicisms were an integral part of Austrian football jargon.
During and after the war, some Anglicisms, such as half and back , disappeared , others, such as managers or coaches , were given a different meaning.
ÖFB team boss
Before the end of the Second World War, preparations were made to re-establish the ÖFB. The strong office of the association captain was to be shared, however, and so a new official title was needed for the responsible head of the national team. Since team was already a common term, the team boss was an obvious choice to indicate that responsibility only relates to the team and not to the entire ÖFB. The first team manager was Karl Zankl .
Unless the circumstances explicitly suggest a different meaning, team boss in Austrian German always refers to the head coach of the ÖFB men's selection team. In other contexts, the expression almost always requires an explanatory addition, especially since the holders of similar offices usually officially have different titles.
In the absence of necessity, the question of a feminine word form did not yet have to be answered.
Germany
In German football , the office of team manager is installed if the person actually responsible for the team cannot hold the office of coach for formal reasons. The decisive factor is usually the lack of a trainer license. Prominent examples are the two national coaches Franz Beckenbauer and Rudi Völler , who were deployed by the DFB :
When after leaving DFB team as the defending champion after the first round of the UEFA EURO 1984 the German coach Jupp Derwall had announced his resignation, the vacant position could not immediately be filled. The preferred candidate, Franz Beckenbauer , did not have a level A trainer license and therefore did not meet the statutory requirements. In order to avoid this formal problem, the office of national coach was filled with the former assistant coach Horst Köppel or, as his successor, Holger Osieck, and the office of team manager, which was occupied by Beckenbauer, was created.
After the resignation of the relatively unsuccessful national coach Erich Ribbeck in 2000, a similar procedure was followed: Rudi Völler was initially team boss for one year and Michael Skibbe ( poached from the youth division of Borussia Dortmund ) was his subordinate national coach. Völler was the sports director of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , the club that Christoph Daum had not approved as national coach, and therefore took on responsibility. When Daum turned out to be intolerable due to a drug affair , Völler remained team boss until 2004.
Following this example, positions as team boss are also set up elsewhere. Markus Babbel, who was training as a coach, became team boss of VfB Stuttgart in 2008 . In 2012, the former Leverkusen player Sami Hyypiä was appointed team boss at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and took over the team on an equal footing with the trained coach Sascha Lewandowski , an unusual constellation that was retained during the 2012/13 season. Sports director Völler compared the two with his own situation as a DFB team boss, when he had a strong coach in Skibbe at his side, as well as with that of Franz Beckenbauer, under whom he had played.
Since the term team boss implies the formal lack of a lack of a trainer's license, the term is often perceived as derogatory, especially if this lack does not exist. In the book 100 years of the DFB published by the DFB , the then reigning national coach Erich Ribbeck was listed as team boss.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sami has the last word! ... that's how it was for me with Skibbe on bild.de, August 4, 2012, accessed May 5, 2017
- ↑ DFB: 100 years of the DFB. The history of the German Football Association , Sportverlag (1999), ISBN 3-328-00850-0