Ex-national player Inka Grings : trainer searches for Top-Level

Inka Grings was last employed for a couple of days. Watching them in the order of the German national football team, the Team from South Africa, a German group opponents at the from the 7. June to 7. The annual July world Cup in France. It was an exception, the former national player has a different goal: it wants to establish itself as the first coach in the German men's soccer. And at the very top. Imke wuebbenhorst coaches since the second half of the BV Cloppenburg in the top League, but Grings wants the medium to long term four classes higher in the League. "That is my goal. I don't know, however, that this is in a, two years in Germany,“ says the 40-Year-old. The way to get there is rocky.

A first Station Grings completed, as you trained in the past year, the B-juniors of Viktoria Köln. "It has really a lot of fun. It is a different pace and a different setting. The guys you don't get tired,“ says Grings. Since the Victorian juniors, and with their squad planning had nothing to do, descents from the Bundesliga, went to Grings in the summer. And since it is on the search for the perfect Job. They observed here and there, for example, in the case of Frank Schaefer, in the Junior area of Fortuna Düsseldorf. "I have also accompanied a men's team in the upper League, the TuS Dinslaken, this was quite interesting," says Grings.

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The course for the football teacher to 2016, completed successfully, in a class with today's Bundesliga coaches Domenico Tedesco and Julian nail man. The Trainer competency is to certify the two-time European champion and three-time footballer of the year, so it is for Grings, however, not easy to get in the upper leagues of the men a foot in the door. "I have two advisors, from time to time requests," she says. "Frank Schaefer in Dusseldorf, super open. Two other clubs, we asked, had no open doors.“

Complain you don't want to, because she recognizes: "It is unusual, many organizations hesitate to be brave." Also judge Bibiana Steinhaus arbitration have needed some time to himself in the Bundesliga to enforce. "It takes time and also a ice-breaker, I believe." Grings, "I realize that I'm not busy and hope for the new season. I want to work, but I also know that I must have patience.“

Inka Grings: "In the case of the men you but still a different dynamic"

the former gate hunter Would want to train a women's team, she would probably find much faster a demanding Job. Grings was from 2014 to 2016, coach of MSV Duisburg and achieved promotion to the First division. It still remains in your Plan. Working as a Junior coach for Viktoria Köln was "a huge experience. I've learned a lot, but it is also seen that it doesn't matter whether a man or a woman. It comes to the Sport.“

And what exactly excites you so much in the men's area? "It is the top level," said Grings. "You're just a different athletics and a different pace." Also, women played a technically and tactically very high level. "The men you but still a different dynamic from what you athlete from the boys, get can. And I find that enormously appealing.“

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women are fair. "There are no theatrics. What's going on in part with the men in the Bundesliga this Extreme, borderline and annoying.“ The guys should concentrate on your football game and also may be upset, Grings. "But not minutes."