2023-05-07 04:41:00
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Eintracht coach loses his composure following a 1: 3 at TSG Hoffenheim and loudly attacks a journalist – and later apologizes.
Sinsheim – It wasn’t a good Saturday followingnoon for Eintracht Frankfurt three days following reaching the cup final, not at all. In the followingnoon, following a disastrous performance, the pros lost 3-1 to a deeply insecure relegation candidate, TSG Hoffenheim.
Eintracht Frankfurt lost 3-1 to TSG Hoffenheim
After just 45 minutes, the Hessians were 0:3 behind, following some outrageous positional and defensive mistakes, even once morest ten Hoffenheim players – Nsoki saw the red card following 48 minutes – they only managed to score the goal through Mario Götze.
At this point in time, Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner was already in the stands and had also seen the red card before half-time. Glasner angrily kicked a second ball onto the field as a “silent protest once morest the referee’s performance,” as he later admitted. He had expected a warning from referee Harm Osmers, but he had not expected a reprimand from his coaching zone.
Eintracht coach Glasner ticks off at press conference
Of course, that was only the negative prelude to the actual scandal. First, a Eintracht spokesman told the journalists waiting for votes in the mixed zone that sports director Markus Krösche would not speak today because “you don’t feel like saying the same thing every week”. Even the pros didn’t show up in the mixed zone. Only Kevin Trapp came to the Sky microphone, much later than usual.
In the subsequent press conference, however, coach Glasner lost his composure: In response to a harmless question from a veteran reporter as to whether the team had “not realized” in view of the defeats of the lower-ranked clubs Leverkusen and Mainz, what a great chance of a place in the European Cup they would have easily squandered, the 48-year-old football teacher almost went crazy.
A rage: Oliver Glasner ticks out.
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Glasner corrects reporters: Makoto Hasebe with “blood in the urine”
Raising his voice, he literally snapped at the reporter, red in the face, telling him to stop “with this garbage, I know what the boys are doing”. He mightn’t hear it anymore if mentality. Dedication or character of the team would be questioned (which was never done). The team always want to, he named Makoto Hasebe as a shining example, who played three games in one week as a 39-year-old, although “he had blood in his urine” from exhaustion. The reporter was surprisingly calm: “I don’t know why you’re yelling at me, I asked a perfectly normal question.”
Glasner had lost control at that moment. It was an emotional outburst seldom seen from a coach, even an hour following the final whistle. The coach has never been so thin-skinned, so unsure of himself and so aggressive, his nerves are obviously on edge.
It’s been simmering in Oliver Glasner for quite a while
It was seething in him, apparently for quite a while, now, following the tenth game without a win in the Bundesliga, it broke out rumbling and unfair and in the wrong tone. Glasner’s public appearances have often been unfortunate in recent weeks. After a 2-0 defeat at Union Berlin, he spoke tight-lipped regarding not wanting to say anything because it might all be used once morest him. He also capped his team at the time, “You can’t train quality”. This was not well received internally. Then following a 1: 3 defeat in Leverkusen, the coach felt provoked by a journalist’s question, he first broke off the interview and later ended the press conference with it.
Glasner obviously feels attacked and is finding it increasingly difficult to deal with the increasing criticism. As a coach, he is responsible for the state of the team, which won its last Bundesliga game on February 18 – it’s only been going downhill since then. Eintracht Frankfurt has been passed completely. The successes in the cup competition alone make up for this lousy record. Oliver Glasner himself admitted that the team has always followed the same pattern for weeks and often loses. “We always concede too many and too easy goals away from home. We can’t always shoot three,” said the football teacher when he was still doing the factual part of his analysis. “It wears you down. The problems have been going on for weeks, we just can’t get it under control.”
Glasner apologizes to the journalist
But the journalist who only asked one question has the least to blame for the current situation. Later in the early evening, Oliver Glasner formally apologized to the journalist for this unusual outburst. Anyway.
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