Someone is really angry!
Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart (51) is gathering his troops today for a crisis meeting before the cup game in Kaiserslautern (tomorrow, 8:45 p.m.). He will fold the players in the locker room two hours before training. Reason: The bad performance in the 0:6 in Leipzig.
What still annoys Baumgart two days after the debacle is the miserable body language his team had in Leipzig!
Before the meeting, the coach exploded at the press conference when he was asked about this topic.
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Baumgart’s outburst of anger – you can just imagine how the players will feel!
First he talks about the current situation, saying after the disastrous start with four points from nine games: “It will be a relegation battle until the last day. For us, every game is a final. And not just in the DFB Cup, but also in the league.”
Then it’s just about the Leipzig game. You can see how disappointed Baumgart is with his boys, whom he has always protected.
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“I am someone who has been behind the boys for a long time and still do. But at some point it’s time for work. At some point it’s about doing what is demanded. If some people can’t implement this, I have to be even clearer. I have very clear language, so I just have to be even clearer. If you don’t understand that, you have to explain what the Bundesliga means. This is the highest league, we all work for it, we are proud of it. That’s what I expect to see. But I don’t expect to see us hang our heads and quit five minutes before halftime.”
Boom! Clear edge!
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Baumgart adds: “Defeats and mistakes are part of football and you can work through them. What you can’t process is body language. This is the first time I have experienced body language like this in my time here. I’m the wrong person.”
Baumgart can’t be stopped and keeps rumbling!
“At some point I get pissed off”
“Body language, attitude, mentality – all these things are always part of football. If I don’t bring body language to the pitch, then I have a problem. I was a player who only succeeded because of that. And that’s what I embody as a coach. If I have a team that doesn’t use body language, then I’m really pissed off at some point. I haven’t heard that from my boys yet. But now I have to say: Until then and no further! And I don’t stand for that, I don’t want to stand for that. I take everything with me: inferiority, deficits, and I also think that we don’t do everything right. What I don’t do is if no one knows what it’s about – because there’s a lot at stake here.”
What a performance!
2023-10-30 12:22:44
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