Anyone who watched a lot of television at this European Football Championship was able to learn most illuminating things about the games from the ZDF team of experts. The closeness to the game emerged from the analyzes by Christoph Kramer and Per Mertesacker, while Peter Hyballa tried to explain tactical subtleties. He succeeded in doing this quite satisfactorily in Münster singsang, apart from some bumpiness (“at the beginning everyone was still tacting like that”).
Born in Bochholter, he is what is commonly known as a trainer-wanderer. He has already worked in Windhoek, Dortmund, Graz, Aachen, Nijmegen, Krakow and in Dunajska Streda in Slovakia. Most of his stations were short-lived, something always came up. It could go like this this time too, because he is currently in trouble as the coach of the Danish second division club Esbjerg FB.
According to reports from the neighboring country, there should have been a real uprising during the training of the club under his leadership. Several professionals apparently complained to the club management about the methodology and the handling of the 45-year-old, who had only taken over the club from Denmark’s south-west in May.
Hyballa believes that he did not do anything wrong, and that there are arguments like this “in 45645 teams in the world”
Due to a dispute between Hyballa and two professionals, there are also demands for his release. The coach demanded too much from the footballers with over-hard training drills and then maltreated them with slogans, reports the tabloid BT. Hyballa even grabbed a player and told him “you have bigger breasts than your wife” before he forced him to do push-ups.
Hyballa himself confirmed his choice of words when asked by the SZ, but he insists that there was “no revolt” and that it was “never an issue that I should stop”. You will now continue to contest the planned test games in the pre-season. In the conversation he makes it clear that the public outrage seems rather strange to him. He didn’t do anything wrong, after all, it’s about competitive sport. Hyballa believes that clashes like this “have 45,645 teams” around the world.
Now, of course, there are a number of arguments against this yesterday’s Schleifer rhetoric. The most apt has to do with a good nursery – and with the fact that as a newcomer in a cosmopolitan, Scandinavian country with macho slogans you simply don’t make friends. Apparently the trainer does not find the four professionals Jakob Ankersen, Kevin Conboy, Yuri Yakovenko and Zean Dalügge too good, all of whom are exempt from training – for sporting reasons, as Hyballa notes. By the way, he was fighting with two older Danish professionals. Ankersen and Conboy are Danish, both over 30.
The club’s US donors initially jumped aside for the coach
Hyballa admits that he puts himself in the category of coarser coaches: “I’m a coach with body and soul, and of course, I’m demanding, because my training is intense and attractive.” Because of these characteristics, the club recently taken over by American investors brought him. The goal: Hyballa should bring the team closer to pressing football based on the German model.
But according to his account, this represents a revolution for the team that was used to more leisurely training sessions. “We’re changing something here, and if you change something, not everyone likes it,” explains Hyballa. The fact that his players preferred to put the latest scandal in the press instead of clarifying the matter with him is “bad style and totally exaggerated”.
Despite the excitement, he is sure that the US donors of the club see it that way too. That’s true insofar as club boss Chein Lee initially jumped to his side. However, Lee also indicated that something had to change in the situation.
At the same time, Hyballa’s behavior met with criticism in the club: “It is not normal to say such things to players or to punish them physically,” said club chairman Michael Kalt of the newspaper BT. “Peter comes from a different country with a different culture. Maybe something like that is acceptable in Germany, England or the USA, but not in Denmark. He will have to adapt here.” Hyballa, however, does not want to change. He demands that the players have to adapt to his way of working.
Unlike Hyballa, the matter is not over yet. According to the local paper Jutland West Coast Esbjerg sports director Brian Knudsen also worries: “We will clarify the matter internally. It is not a matter that we will discuss in public.” But that is exactly what has long been the case.
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