There likely aren’t too many who suffer the delusion that Jurgen Klinsmann is a great coach. Figurehead, perhaps, but not a great tactician. The credit for ‘06 lies in the background with the quiet fellow rolling little bits of nose candy into his mouth as he dreamed of the day he could force Michael Ballack to retire against his will.
However, Philipp Lahm saw fit to remind everyone of this in his autobiography, the foreword of which probably wasn’t penned by Jurgen.
Now, Lahm has revealed in a serialisation of his autobiography ‘Der feine Unterschied – Wie man heute Spitzenfussballer wird’ [The fine line - How to become a top professional] which goes on sale next week, that Klinsmann’s style of management was unusual.
“The experiment with Klinsmann was a failure. We were only working on our fitness in training. He didn’t care much for tactical stuff,” he wrote. “It was up to the players to come together before a match and discuss how we were going to play.
”All the players knew after about eight weeks that it was not going to work out with Klinsmann. The remainder of that campaign was nothing but limiting the damage.”
“Limiting the damage” is not a term one wants associated with the coach, typically. Particularly when eight weeks encapsulates only a few actual games after the summer preseason period.
Clearly Jurgen needs to coach more and more teams, just for the experimental fun.
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