For coach Urs Fischer of the Football Bundesliga club 1. FC Union Berlin occupies the personal pronunciation with his players a higher priority than at his active time.
“It’s alright for me that it is different now and the current generation asks more. There you have to be there as a trainer,” said the 55-year-old Swiss of the “World on Sunday”, “you have to be ready, with the time to go and not always tell from earlier. “
At his time such pronunciation would not have been possible, says Fischer: “At that time, you’ve never been as a player to the coach in the office and asked why you do not play. He would have scripted.” The coach himself prefers a mix of individual and group talks, “because the guys have to understand that they are part of the whole and it is not about them alone.”
“Nobody is important here”
Fischer, who came to Köpenick in the summer of 2018 and led Union to the rise immediately in his first season, also refers to the ground liability within the association as the basis for the successful path in the upper house. “We never changed our character and never our way of thinking. Maybe that’s a reason why we have not experienced stormy times yet,” says the coach of the current table-up, “no matter important here – we are all service providers – there I involve myself with me. “
And despite the success of the success, Fischer uses very clear job values in the lives of the professionals: “Family, private things enjoy highest priority with me. If there is something there, the player is free of all.” The family is the highest good. “