Germany shines in the European Championships, Germany is back, Germany intends to be the best in football again.
method?
Juice and cake. Socifotbol.
I, like everyone else, thought a lot about what we actually saw in Brighton on Monday night. England swept Norway – proud Norway, world champion and Olympic champion Norway – down a blood-stained highway until redness stretched from southern England to northern county Finnmark.
There was a lot to think about, even for anyone who changed his name Martin Sjögren.
But when we saw all the teams playing football in the European Championship, I have to admit that one of the teams made me feel even more. I was influenced by England, of course. I was happy to see France’s first half against Italy – but freaked out when I saw Germany in a brand new feathered suit.
One feature stands out
Nasty all day, like a feathered German. It was like hearing echoes from decades of Swedish championship losses. Sweden can maneuver France, I think. They may be able to take on England if necessary.
But the Germans? When are the Germans real?
justified.
Of all the qualities that make Germany the best soccer country in the world, one that stands out, is its ability to be in constant crisis and to impose itself on it. German football discusses, thinks and rams arguments against each other and refuses to be satisfied. I saw their men win the silver medal at the 2002 World Cup in Japan, but being vice champions was nothing to them – they were on their way to revolutionizing the whole of football, from the bottom up. Four years later, they fascinated the world, and twelve years later they played on their soil the gold of the World Cup.
Now, Germany’s Frauenfußballnationalmannschaft is scared again, it’s doing so in the midst of crisis again.
As German football has self-confidence, there is no need to look at anyone else, because they are the best in Europe, we must take a look at what they do.
German investigation – no sailing
Earlier this spring, they held a union meeting, amid a two-year pandemic that shut down an entire country. For football, Covid has meant a large number of young people are leaving football, and the association has heard warning bells ringing. Germany’s population is ten times that of Sweden, but they can’t seem to afford to lose a young base. Federation Vice President Ronnie Zimmerman has primary responsibility for children’s and youth football and has launched a major investigation, and let me say this about the investigation:
in german. It’s not a damned seagull.
Over 5,000 interviews and discussions across the country and ideological research and discussion support: What do we need to do to improve as a football nation?
At that union meeting, they passed a total transformation that will take effect from 2024, across Germany, for both boys and girls.
You can’t guess what they came up with.
Or, rather, none of all the youth leaders who see the age of ten as a talented subject to be shaped by selection, exclusion, and investment of the rocky elite in the big club academies from primary school…None of them could imagine what Germany had landed in.
We should think as children, not adults. Only kids who have fun and feel happy want to stay in football, Zimmerman said.
He will play without goalkeepers
What do the kids want?
They want fun, they want ball a lot, and they want to avoid passively engaged parents. From 2024, six and seven-year-old Germans will play their matches in two- and three-man teams, without goalkeepers and with four small goals. When they turn eight, they’ll play three against three, or five against five. When they turn ten, they face five against five or seven against seven, only then with the goalkeepers.
Matches will be played in team tournaments with a kind of Master-on-the-block system. The team that wins is promoted, and the team that loses is moved down a score, so everyone can measure an equal resistance level and no one needs to lose matches by 12-0.
Goals will count in a single match, but you won’t have any tables or playoffs until the age of nine. Teams will rotate, everyone will participate as much as possible, players will be responsible for decisions, coaches and parents will be less involved during matches.
All dressed Swedish F10 coaches who lead their team to win the important cup have a tougher opponent. In the local controversy, they’ve been grumbling about researchers and unions banning table counting, and showcasing a juice, cake, and Sosse-Football mentality.
Now they have to argue against Germany, the only country in the world to have won the World Cup six times.
What if it turns out that they belong together?
Germany does not think it can afford to lose children who want to play football. Germany chose to cut off tactical control. Germany says there should be room for those who are physically inferior or lagging in their technical development. Germany says the key is that children often own the ball, face individual situations, and learn to behave in a healthy way. Germany sees education as a problem.
Germany don’t want to sort out the element of competition – they explicitly say it’s an important experience to learn to win and lose – but in their system everyone has to play so many matches that no one keeps track of individual results. Do not calculate the tables for the young.
I see Alexandra Pope shaking her head 4-0 against Denmark after a dream attack, it’s the best I’ve seen so far during the European Championship, and it scares me at the thought that Sweden will have to face it again. Germany is back, Germany is in constant motion. They are in England to win their ninth European Championship gold, while their association is setting up new guidelines to make football more powerful.
Juice and cake for the kids. Seniors gold medals.
What if it turns out that they belong together?
