A bit of nostalgia is part of the program, therefore, turn signals, turn left, into the quarters. The Chauffeur knows the area. And in the history of Servette. Alain Geiger is in control and tells of the past, of the times in which this road is a stadium. It was the home of the Geneva Clubs.
But the Charmilles, a residential block has displaced them. A concrete pillar, which was formerly used as a light mast, the only visible relic. But the memories have not disappeared. And otherwise, Geiger can help.
at 21, he moved from Sion to Geneva, was set up in 1984 to win the Cup, and the 1985 champion, he helped shape an Era, in the Servette is still a Power in the national business, and no existential Worries knew. In 1986, he left the city after five years, lost the club, but never from the eyes. And now Geiger is back, back in a Club, the titles with 17 for the most part still the third most successful in the country. As of the Valais, took over in the summer of 2018, the team, ended a two-year period of unemployment. Thanks to an application.
Five hours at the tea
Geiger is 58, for Switzerland, he played games 112 countries, experienced a world Cup and a European championship, he was also a Captain. As he finished 1997 his career at GC, he rose without Pause and was a Trainer. But him something that had been awarded him, as a player: patience was missing. He rushed from one place to the next, “rush”, says he himself, he believed, to approach sprinting to his destination, away. In 2006, he ventured on a task in Morocco, starting in 2010, stations in Algeria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia followed.
He learned a enthusiasm not to know that he knew so from his home. Or he sat with the President for five hours at the tea. “You Swiss have watches, we Africans have the time” – how often that sentence has been delivered. Geiger learned to improvise, that was part of his life as an adventurer. Somewhere in the wide world, he trained. And was in Switzerland in oblivion.
A shrug of the shoulders for the doubters
As of 2016, the desire for a new commitment in the Foreign market slowed down, he waited at home in his Pennine place of residence Bramois on an offer. But he waited in vain. There were always Vacancies, but who has thought of a violinist? “Funny, it was not in this time,” he says. So he knew that I have to take the Initiative.
He offered his service at first Christian Constantin. His trained eye and his experience would convince as arguments for sure. But Sion’s President offered him a position in the offspring. Then violinist at Servette thought, in March 2018, the wars, as a Coach, Meho kodro replacing was fired. He sent an Application to Geneva.
Many have asked Why he, of all people? Is he up to the task? Geiger didn’t care.
But it passed weeks in which he heard from the club. In may, he reported by phone – and was rewarded for his perseverance: He got a two-year contract. After his election, he took a certain amount of astonishment in the Public: violinist why he, of all people? Why one who was so long away from the national business? Is he up to the task? But him to take care of it at the time, as little as it is today. His comment: a shrug of the shoulders.
The role models, YB and Basel
In the first round, there were numerous critical voices, as Servette for a while in 5th place stuck. The critics cried out, No Surprise, we have often enough warned. In the newspaper’s President Didier Fischer was confronted with the accusation that he had set this Trainer is only for lack of Alternatives. Fischer, a local businessman, let everything bounce off. Geiger functioning in a pragmatic way, he was credible and direct. And at once the machinery: Servette wich ran out in the fast Lane, and wintered as a Leader with six points ahead of Winterthur.
In Geneva, has made some attempt to give Servette a shiny coat of paint. Geiger says now: “Our goal is to bring the club back to where it belongs.” He says: the return in the Super League. And he also says: in a second step, to the top of the Super League. After the wild years and episodes of high-lift trucks with a solid sporty seems to be as economic basis had been created. This also has to do with Servette and white, the Fondation Hans Wilsdorf in the back – the Foundation manages the legacy of the eponymous Rolex founder. The first team, Fischer says, would cost around 5.6 million Swiss francs.
“If we are to believe, to be as good as risen, it could be complicated.”Alain Geiger
YB and Basel are for Geiger examples of how a success story can build. And as a coach, he is inspired by values such as Jurgen Klopp or Pep Guardiola, “you invent the football again and again”. It is not impressed on the two particularly that you simply rely on your superior skill, but develop the game, Tinker, little car.
special praise for Roy Hodgson
Geiger has the headquarters, in the Charmilles booth, left behind, he travels leisurely towards the city centre. He just warms of Klopp and Guardiola speed, but wants to mention Lucien Favre and Marcel Koller, Christian Gross, the Swiss abroad Ambassador. And then Roy Hodgson, who led Switzerland to the 1994 world Cup. “He has not looked at, who came from what part of the country,” says Geiger, “he offered simply the Best and had a clear game idea. Group education, there was not in him.”
The trip to the archive, Geiger concludes, it shifts to the present and says: “If we are to believe, to be as good as risen, it could be complicated.” But Failure is not an Option, he has no time for this, because he has ambitious plans with Servette and beyond in his career.
At the station Geiger says: “greetings to Zurich.” Before he has stopped pushing smugly: “And you write something Good about us.” (Tages-Anzeiger.ch/Newsnet)
Created: 30.01.2019, 10:46 PM
