Niklas Süle is a regular player in Central defense of Bayern. The fact coach Niko Kovac has set. Now, Mats Hummels and Jérôme Boateng fight for the free space next to him. The loser of the duel, it is said, has to leave the club in the summer. the Benedict Warmbrunn Benedict Warmbrunn
the study of political science, Economics, and sociology in Munich. Has been writing since 2006 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, since 2014, mainly on FC Bayern. Boxes.
Niko Kovac, a follow breathes, he blows up the jaws, once again, it is every word of it. A little longer than half a year, he is now the coach of FC Bayern, and in these months he has learned that every word can have one of our professionals upset. Last weekend, for example, Kovac has learned that it is enough when he says: “the little bit”.
On Friday afternoon, told Kovac that a player had a cold; that “blood values” were that this train could. The player “gets it all on drugs, what he needs to get on medication, so he is back on the steamer,” where Kovac deliberately leaves open whether he is a player who is on the steamer, is in the starting XI or on the bench. The Cold should be on Sunday healthy, says Kovac, “and then we’ll take him”, for the home game (15: 30) against the VfB Stuttgart. Then the coach says: “We’re not taking any risk.” Kovac out, blowing the air out of his mouth.
Jerome Boateng, the player who missed on Friday with a cold, the Training, will be taken on Sunday so at best, he is more likely to be in starting lineup. A perspective that Kovac is on Friday just a few introductory words. It is in this change of personnel to the greatest and most courageous act of self-determination of the Coach in his months in Munich.
In defence of FC Bayern hasn’t played in the last years of the young, still intact, Holger Badstuber, the cheerful Dante, sometimes Daniel van Buyten, also if you remember in the Association in the case of the Latter, in the meantime, this is precisely why actually. In the past few years, but always reserves a place in the Central defence for Boateng, he won with the club everything there is to win, Champions League, world Cup, six times the championship. Sometimes they called him simply Boss.
In the two years before Kovac came to Munich, Boateng is usually in addition to Mats Hummels, they were the world champion defense, were just the beginning of their time together at FC Bayern you on some days as the best interior defense in Europe. The two complemented each other wonderfully, and so did not bother, it is almost that you can start as human so little to each other. Boateng disturbs occasionally, Hummels talks consecration oral, and Hummels disturbs occasionally, Boateng, Professor eyeglasses designs and other Lifestyle-Hobbies, have little to do with the classical tasks of a Central defender.
Then, Kovac came to Munich, and he said: Boateng and Hummels are good, but Niklas Süle is just as good, and on top of that, seven years younger. On Friday a week ago, in front of the rear round kick-off against Hoffenheim, went Kovac more even take a step. He said: “Nik is a regular player is in front of the other two. The other match.”
a Few words only, and it was Boateng Hummels. But: Boateng against Hummels. Then Kovac added, Hummels was in the preparation of the “little bit better”. The Boss was only the third.
Even half a year ago, Kovac had seen the hierarchy in the interior defense completely different. Since his arrival in Munich, the reports that Hummels is too slow, although this was never the fastest accumulated striking; in may, the Cup final, had used the former Frankfurt coach Kovac, this lack of speed for the Cup victory of his Concord. Boateng praised the Trainer, as soon as he was in Munich, striking often. This was hoped at the time, on an exchange to Paris; Kovac was the Only one in the club that fought for him. He called him on vacation, he said in the first few weeks with him. Although Boateng was already in Paris, managed Kovac, him mentally back; so much so that Boateng had engaged in a exchange, he was allowed to apply as Kovac, and the first access. As Boateng made a mess of in the first half of the season several times, stopped the coach to be faithful to him.
Hummels vs Boateng is a Signal on the second round,
so What makes Hummels better, if only a little bit?
At Süle estimates Kovac that this delivers a constant level, it is also a physicality that the coach brings to the game of his team. Süle is fast, robust, head to the ball. He is the reliable solution – and the attempt of the Trainer to establish a style of its own. Boateng is faster than Süle, Hummels head to the ball stronger, in addition, both are passes in the opening Game, variable, Boateng with his diagonal balls, Hummels with his Pass. To Hummels and Kovac doesn’t appreciate his intelligence on the Defensive, that this one wins, for example, a head-ball duel often, but the Ball is so deflected that a player can start the counter-attack.
To Boateng, he appreciates that he has the best disposition, speed, Overview, and robustness. To Boateng, many do not appreciate in the club, that he cultivates a different Lifestyle; some marveled that he took advantage of last weekend, the days off for a trip to Paris for Fashion Week, with a detour on the way back via Berlin. Kovac stressed that he only rated the training sessions, and in these Boateng trained “top”, like the others. The technical discussion in its decision notice, the Trainer, also, that Boateng was out of tune, Kovac says: “Probably I should have prefer to roll the dice, then you would not be able to accuse me of, that I find one more sympathetic than the other.”
That Kovac has narrowed the duel in the centre of defence on a between Hummels and Boateng, also puts a Signal over the feedback round also. FC Bayern has committed to the Stuttgart Central defender Benjamin Pavard, he seeks to Lucas Hernández, Atlético Madrid, he has undertaken on Thursday the 18-year-old American Chris Richards, if also initially, for the U 19. Boateng and Hummels are alert, already in the first half of the season you will have noticed that the support from the club had subsided. The one who loses the duel, permanently, therefore one who is familiar with both for years, will leave FC Bayern in the summer.