Sporty and casual in appearance
Oliver Glasner chooses a sporty, casual outfit with sneakers and a t-shirt when he enters the newly renovated press conference room in the arena for the first time for an official meeting with Frankfurt media representatives. Punctual, precise, pointed: the new Eintracht trainer takes a lot of time to provide extensive information. It is not surprising that he is in a good mood. After a vacation together with the family, who still live in Austria, it is the first day at work at “this club that has a big name in Germany”, and the 46-year-old Austrian leaves no doubt that he is full of anticipation.
“I feel like unity,” he says. Football rushes do not come from his lips. The fact that he is talking about a slightly raised platform does not give the impression that someone is paring down from above. Glasner comes across as personable and collects his first points at Eintracht. Two days later, during the first training session with his team, he is immediately the boss, who repeatedly makes corrections and encourages them loudly.
Adi Hütter made a similar appearance when he started in Frankfurt three years ago. The man from Vorarlberg, four years older than his Austrian compatriot Glasner, also takes a lot of time to provide information about goals, dreams and wishes. Hütter attaches great importance to the appearance. He also emphasizes the sporty, casual variant. Anyone who listens to Hütter will quickly discover one of his favorite words: basically. Basically, the master maker from Bern can imagine anything. It becomes clear: With Hütter, a coach started who basically wants to stand for offensive spectacles.
In the game idea emphatically offensive
Oliver Glasner immediately comes up with his “idea of football”. He would like to give something to the players entrusted to him – also for their future careers. “I want to see that we grow as a team,” he says. Glasner leaves it open whether this process should be tactically accompanied by a chain of three or four defenses. Flexibility is the key. In any case, it is correct: Glasner also wants to stand for the Frankfurt virtues, because Eintracht “plays very aggressively and intensively, is very creative and difficult to calculate”.
The fact that he had the second best defense in the Bundesliga with his former team VfL Wolfsburg should not remain an isolated case. Glasner wants to further stabilize the defensive at Eintracht, make it even more impermeable. “We want to keep the store closed more often.” To do this, the ambitious coach demands “maximum commitment” from his players. With a stronger defensive and a reliable offensive, Glasner wants to take the next step with his team.
Welcome to Eintracht: The new coach Glasner (left) and the new sports director Krösche
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When he was introduced, Adi Hütter immediately took the opportunity to go on the offensive in the Frankfurt catacombs. He prefers a 4: 3 to a 1: 0. That means: all strength to the attack. Hütter is not afraid to take risks and attack early with his team in order to put the opponents under pressure.
Perhaps the biggest coup of the ambitious Austrian, who wants to make people sit up and take notice at his first stop in the German Bundesliga: He brings Filip Kostic out of the low performance and forms the Serb, who later becomes a heart and soul with storm colleague Luka Jovic, into one Outside track player in a class of its own. Reliable strikers Jovic and Sebastién Haller also help Hütter with his offensive directions. And especially André Silva. It is Hütter’s farewell present that Silva rises to the top scorer in Frankfurt with 28 goals. Even if the Portuguese is now moving to Leipzig.
Relying on potential with team spirit
Oliver Glasner does it just like everyone else before him: He surrounds himself with confidants and companions. Of course, Michael Angerschmid also makes the geographical and atmospheric move from Wolfsburg to Frankfurt in order to be a reliable assistant to his friend and boss Glasner. With Ronald Brunmayr, who is also coming, the alpine trio is only apparently complete. Because Glasner wants more.
Silva cheers in the unity jersey: The times are over.
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On Thursday, the team behind the team received further personnel and professional growth. Two athletic trainers (Thomas Pitzke and Sebastian Saglimbeni), an analyst (Niklas Lanwehr) and a nutritionist (Anna Lena van der Felden) join the team of helpers. And a very special man: the man for that certain something, for the extra percent that should be tickled out. A potential trainer (Martin Daxl) should make it possible. Glasner, the man who is “in the mood” for Eintracht, doesn’t want to leave anything to chance.
Adi Hütter is multi-track. It is not surprising that his specialist Christian Peintinger, with whom he even lives in the same house but not in the same apartment, is his first assistant. It is also smart that Hütter relies on the expertise of Armin Reutershahn. The man who always only wants to be an assistant and never a boss, continues where he left off with Niko Kovac: as a loyal vassal at the side of the head coach.
Headed by the then sports director Fredi Bobic, who hardly leaves one stone unturned and completely overhauls the staff, Hütter is building a powerful team behind the team. Many helpers, one goal: sporting success. As fifth in the table, Hütter leaves Frankfurt in the direction of Gladbach. Glasner is challenged.
