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One thing that made the Spanish national team of roughly five years ago so fearsome was the tactic that seems to have become known, thanks to Jurgen Klopp, by an Anglo-German expression Gegenpressing, or counter-pressing. If you lose the ball far upfield, near the other team's penalty area, you don't drop back but instead move forward. This is a huge honour, bestowed upon only a handful of people so far. The academy can be traced back to the great Sepp Herberger.
Back when Per Mertesacker was playing for Germany, some opposing teams -- Serbia were a particularly extreme case -- would actually move away from him when he had the ball at his feet and was trying to build from the back. It was as if the Red Sea was parting in front of him. Mertesacker was practically forced to move far upfield where, and this was the plan, he would run out of ideas what to do with the ball -- with a lot of open, unmarked space behind him. Oztunali is the son of a daughter of Uwe Seeler . In contrast to Kopke, he belongs to a sizeable group of players who already have quite a few Bundesliga games under their belt. His Bayer Leverkusen teammate Julian Brandt, for instance, is a first-team regular who has seen action for Bayer in every league game since December.
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There are some interesting players in that team, too, such as Bayern Munich's Gianluca Gaudino and Schalke's Leroy Sane, both who have seen Champions League action this season. 2022 Winnipeg Blue Bombers schedule and results. All games played on Sundays unless otherwise noted. Fran Rish Stadium was renovated in 2022 including new boys and girls locker rooms, new bleachers, a new all-weather track, and a FieldTurf playing surface. The Bombers once again are able to host home playoff games. It certainly wasn’t without its warts and its flaws.
Still, they can’t all be masterpieces, and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a perfect 2-0 after an imperfect 20-7 victory over the Toronto Argonauts Friday night at IG Field that was more a grimy defensive slugfest than offensive fireworks display. The win, coming in front of 22,147 on a pristine night in south Winnipeg, was the Bombers sixth straight dating back to late 2019 and the Grey Cup playoff run. However, despite proponents as qualified as Wormuth and as prominent as Matthaus , the intentional stray pass still has a long way to go, no pun intended, before becoming an accepted tool. It means your opponents are under pressure the instant they have won possession.
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The Winnipeg Blue Bombers will head into their first bye week on the heels of an event which had become so very foreign to them over these last days, weeks and months – a loss. The Blue Bombers fell to the Montreal Alouettes in overtime in front of 31,053 at IG Field Thursday night, ending their 9-0 start to the 2022 season and with the result also bringing to an abrupt close their 13-game home unbeaten streak. Kicker Marc Liegghio had two opportunities to keep the Blue Bombers ... Since Wormuth is, technically speaking, the most influential coach in the country, I talked to him in the summer of 2013 about the renaissance of the German game. During the course of our conversation, he casually mentioned that not all innovations are as recent as they may seem.
In mid-June, a team starring a World Cup winner (Borussia Dortmund's Matthias Ginter) and a Champions League winner (Barcelona's Marc-Andre ter Stegen) will try to win the continental title in the Czech Republic. Andrew Harris is back and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are slowly starting to flash some of their old magic again. And, yes, one is absolutely positively linked to the other. It was far from perfect, but the Bombers rallied for a dramatic win over the Calgary Stampeders in front of 22,806 at IG Field on a spectacular Sunday night in south Winnipeg. Overcoming a serious case of the dropsies on offence and a gritty performance by Stampeder QB Jake Maier – making just his second pro ...
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He's the reason I always watch a Germany under-20 game on the edge of my seat. In fact, I can't recall a summer without a major men's competition that was so jam-packed with footballing action all over the planet. Two weeks ago, Kicker magazine spoke of a "tournament marathon" for German teams. OTTAWA – Step away from the panic button, folks.
Once you've understood the concept behind such tactical ideas, the planned stray pass doesn't sound quite so crazy anymore. Wormuth told me that "you can do it intentionally but you can also use it as an emergency solution, a controlled clearance. If you are under so much pressure that you can't play a proper pass anymore, you can hoof the ball upfield." In July, Germany's under-19 team travels to Greece to compete for their own European Championship.
Germany's U-20s a must-watch due to Frank Wormuth's tactical innovation
First Davie Selke announced he wanted to prepare for the new season with his new club, RB Leipzig, rather than travel to the other side of the world. Then centre-forward Tim Kleindienst, who came up through the ranks at Energie Cottbus and will now join Freiburg, tore a ligament in a training session in New Zealand just days before the tournament began. Levin Oztunali, grandson of Uwe Seeler, stars for Germany's U-20s after making an impact with on loan at Werder Bremen.Martin Hunter/Getty ImagesKopke, who has appeared before in this column, is the son of former Germany goalkeeper Andreas Kopke. He hasn't yet played at the top level or in the second division, but this is about to change because he signed a contract with Bundesliga 2 side Karlsruhe a week ago. Then there are the under-21s we looked at in March.
When Herberger became national coach, the equally legendary Hennes Weisweiler ran the academy, which is now named after him. In 1970, a man called Gero Bisanz became Weisweiler's successor. Not too many people outside of Germany know Bisanz, but he's a coaching legend, too, because he was the first-ever manager of Germany's women's team.
Yes, despite having already clinched a playoff spot and first place in the West Division and not having a ‘meaningful’ game again until the West Final on December 5th, the Bombers kept their foot jammed down on the gas pedal in a ... He made a name for himself as Joachim Low's assistant at Fenerbahce back in 1998 and has coached Germany's under-20s since 2010. Most importantly, though, he became the head of the Hennes Weisweiler Academy, the place where coaching badges are earned, in 2008. Basically, this means that Wormuth coaches the people who want to coach professional teams in Germany. But the players are not why I'm so interested in this team.
Namely, they continue to pummel teams into submission. The Blue Bombers improved to 3-0 with a victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in front of 23,600 at IG Field Friday night, in a game dominated, once again, by the defensive dozen. Maybe there were some doubts or concerns floating out there – and that’s likely a big, fat maybe based on their body of work and the relentlessness of the head coach – but if there were, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers promptly erased them all again.
EDMONTON – It could hardly be described as a masterpiece. In fact, it was the type of rendering that would have many artists painting over the canvas and hitting reset. Yet here are the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, now at 7-0 after a victory over the Edmonton Elks at Commonwealth Stadium Friday night in which many of the usually telling statistics were lopsided in the home side’s favour. But in the end, while the champs were hardly at their best – especially in fielding a lineup ...
Far from perfect through the first two weeks of the Canadian Football League season, the 2022 Winnipeg Blue Bombers are flashing just enough moments to remain unbeaten. The Blue Bombers edged the vastly improved Ottawa RedBlacks on a windy, rainy Friday night at TD Place in the nation’s capital to improve to 2-0 on the season while clearly leaving everyone wanting more. “We can’t rest on our laurels and think that last year is ... The Winnipeg Blue Bombers christened the 2021 Canadian Football League season with a not-so subtle reminder to all the oddsmakers, the doubters and naysayers out there. Just a few months after I talked to Wormuth, Lothar Matthaus was interviewed by Der Spiegel. When he was asked about the rumour that Barcelona had executed the intentional stray pass a few times under former manager Pep Guardiola, he replied that AC Milan had done something similar as early as the 1980s.
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