FC Augsburg strives for more than just relegation

With the Separation from coach Jess Thorup and sports director Marinko Jurendic FC Augsburg sent a signal. After 14 years of Bundesliga affiliation, managing director Michael Ströll and other decision-makers in the club strive for the next development step. The relegation alone is no longer sufficient for your demands. Non-down-the-time t-shirts are no longer manufactured and worn. Core issues of the prescribed club philosophy should be recognized in the team and their way of playing.

So the FCA wants put down your gray mouse image and at the same time create a recognition value. Wants to make it visible what he stands for. Where FCA is on it, FCA should be in. Nice side aspect: Sandro Wagner himself has radiance. Is present, eloquent and strong opinion. Due to the commitment of the previous DFB-Co coach, the club will be perceived nationally more-in the sense of Ströll.

Soft factors facilitate Sandro Wagner’s decision

The expectations of the future trainer, who consciously chose the FCA as the first coaching station in the Bundesliga, are high. Soft factors such as the proximity to the family made it easier for the 37-year-old to make his decision. Above all, the coach in the FCA should see the breeding ground on which he can create something during his first first division station.

Wagner prefers an active, aggressive and aggressive play. After the partly steady appearances last season Should the FCA fans go back to the stadium with joy-and leave it as enthusiastically and satisfied as possible. Wagner is attested that he can put himself in players, finds access to the younger generation. As a result, he is trusted to give Augsburg -based own plants an opportunity.

But it is also clear that in the recent past, a number of coaches with promising inaugural speeches have been opened in Augsburg. Most recent example: The « offensive mindset » Thorups. It ultimately remained with the Danes as little as before with Maassen, Weinzierl or wonderful. In order to maintain the relegation, pragmatism and Safty-First thinking determined the approach in the course of the season. From the visionary they changed to real politician.

So how does the FCA react, should it tumble against the second division with its own plants and hurray football? Wagner will know what he has got into.