Cologne - On Monday's will for our boys against Austria (20.45 clock / ARD) were fighting progress. But coach Jogi Löw is well prepared - he knows all the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition inside out. For, like all other 15 European Football Cup, the Ösis been meticulously analyzed in advance. And from Cologne - by Professor Jürgen Buschmann and his students at the German Sports University. They make Jogi ösi-fit.
"Overall, 36 students are in our team that are in twos or threes, each employ an opponent declares," Buschmann. Nobody knows the European Championship teams as well as the students. After all, since November they will be put under the microscope.
Matches of the respective teams will be evaluated and newspaper reports. "We can only material available, that can be accessed Everyone. We get nothing special, "clarifies Buschmann. Work is based on the Bible of the DFB-scouting. A 80 pages thick, work in which Jogi Löw and his coaching staff and brought DFB chief scout Urs Siegenthaler, the German philosophy of the game on paper. "Everyone has the book by heart. If philosophy is internalized, students speak a language and DFB. Then everyone knows what is at stake, "says Stephan Nopp, right hand by Jürgen Buschmann.
During the evaluation only deals with the qualitative characteristics of the team and the individual player. Nopp: "No matter how many miles is cutting short a player or how many ball contacts he had. Important are his willingness to take risks in the game to the front or the playmaking of the team as a whole. "One thing is clear:" We give no guidance Jogi Loew as his boys have to play. That is not our job. "
How good are the analysis of student athletes, was already at the 2006 World Cup. "The information was about the shooters who have had Jens Lehmann before Elmeterschießen against Argentina in the note of us," Bushman says not without pride.
