When the 18 teams in the Easycredit Basketball Bundesliga fight for points this weekend, there will be just three German coaches at their side: Christian Held (35/Rostock), Benka Barloschky (35/Hamburg) and Anton Gavel (39/Ulm). .
In the top game Alba Berlin against Syntainics MBC (Sunday, 5 p.m., live on BILD TV), the home team will be coached by Israel González (48). He is one of four Spanish head coaches in the BBL. There are also three Finns, two Americans and two Belgians. And one Israeli, one Argentinian, one Slovenian and the Serbian Predrag Krunic (55), who trains the MBC.
Why are there no German coaches in the world champion league?
Stefan Koch (59) was a coach for a long time (2000 cup winner with Frankfurt). Today’s Dyn expert says to SPORT BILD: “In Germany, unlike other countries, there is no predetermined career path. When I look at the traditional basketball nations, I see that good youth coaches automatically become assistant coaches for the professionals. If the head coach then leaves, his assistant coach will at least be considered as a successor.”
Hamburg’s Barloschky has a similar view: “At the moment there is still no clear career path as a coach from entry-level to head coach at a Bundesliga club.”
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He calls for more effort to be put into training: “It is primarily a question of what is on offer. How many young German trainers are now available and applying for the jobs? In Germany we are simply not as advanced in terms of coaching training as we are in football. We are at the top in Europe – we still have some catching up to do when it comes to basketball players in order to send more candidates into the race.”
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Rostock’s hero relies on more ex-players in the coaching business: “I believe that we have a lot of former professionals – there has to be a way to keep them in the sport.”
The Spanish are one step further. Oldenburg coach Pedro Calles (40) told Sport BILD: “We have a great basketball tradition in Spain. And the success of Aíto (two champions, once cup winner with Berlin; editor) certainly helped us too.”
Last season Gavel became champion with Ratiopharm Ulm. The Slovakian native came to Germany as a youth and later played international matches for the DBB.
Before that, Dirk Bauermann (65) was the last German coach to win the title with Bamberg in 2007. Today, Bauermann looks after the young talent at DBB and says: “We have excellent foreign coaches in the league. But there are also top people in Germany. They see that the window to slip into the BBL is very small. And they would rather become teachers, doctors or lawyers.”
His suggestion: “In other countries, very high hurdles are set for foreign trainers. For example, you must have coached a national team or been active in the Euroleague for several years. Why don’t we do that too?”
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An idea that the BBL has been thinking about. Also through a kind of punitive tax if the clubs don’t comply.
According to information from Sport BILD, the league also sees the problem partly with the German coaches – their salary demands are simply too high.
2023-11-19 10:43:52
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