seven years Ago, Ralf Rangnick sent a spy in the capital. He looked at the time on behalf of Red Bull new employees for the football project in Leipzig. In Steglitz-Zehlendorf in the southwest of Berlin, worked as a young Trainer for the A-youth of Hertha 03, he wanted to know more. He asked a Familiar, you should find out how the coach and his team is practicing, how he speaks with her. As the spy reported what he noticed, knew Rangnick immediately that he wants to have Sebastian Hoeness.

Christopher Meltzer

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It Hoeness has cost much time, to the powerful men in the football clubs were delighted with him. The history with a ranking of nick’s spy, he has told several times already, but she is just so beautiful for what was later to observe: those Who experienced Hoeness, promoted him also. This was the case in Leipzig, where he was quickly the U17 of RB lead. This was the case in Munich, where FC Bayern for him first in the U19 and two years later, the U23 entrusted, who had just ascended to the third League. In his first season in professional football, he coached his new team immediately in the first place, which is why he has now, with 38 years, what even the most football teachers have to wait long: a Job in which he can no longer be transported.

it’s Not as Hoeness

next Monday Sebastian Hoeness occurs for the first Time publicly as the head coach of TSG Hoffenheim. perceive In a press conference, he will have to explain how he is so ascended quickly in the Bundesliga, how he imagines the future, how he wants to enforce his attack style from the third division with players that are superior to their rivals technically. And pretty sure he will have to occasionally explain how it all hangs together with a thing, for he can be nothing at all: his name.

As Sebastian Hoeness was a little Boy, he did not know how much his family name with the Sport is linked to, the one he liked so much. By Dieter, his father, and, of course, Uli, his uncle. Then, as he was a big Boy, he knew it exactly. “Of course,” he once said, “I would point to me and again want to be as Sebastian perceived, not as Hoeness.”

Now he, Sebastian arrived in the Bundesliga, and this also has to do with it, not to of things has to stop, he can’t change. He stopped at the age of 28 as a player, because he is on the field the Talent for the professional lacked football. He stopped at some point, to resent the fact that his Name “will be set in the context of” what is “a bit unfair”, and said since then: “I have To live with.”