How the ÖFB would be in pain

They do, don’t worry. Otherwise they wouldn’t have clubs like this Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Bavaria and Dortmund managed and ultimately couldn’t have Norway my Erling Haaland my 5:1 shot out of the stadium.

However: National team players are not ordinary employeeswho want to choose their supervisor here. Many of them have long since advanced into spheres where they no longer need the ÖFB in order to gain international exposure and then subsequently sign with a better club.

Rather, it is the other way around: The ÖFB needs themthey are the ones Cashcowtheir work is of existential importance for the ÖFB. Best and current example: After its recent successes, the ÖFB already has almost 40,000 cards canceled for the last international match of the year on November 17th. And that against Slovenia!

Rights and obligations

You have Ups and downs experienced and know exactly who and what is important for success. If you see Bernhard Neuhold as an important part of that, then it’s not just that their rightbut also their dutyto deposit this.

As a result, you shouldn’t be surprised if the players now further steps think about it because they feel dismissed like apprentices and being ignored. Your obligations as part of the international match dates are otherwise quite manageable. Even if they are employed by the ÖFB for a short period of time, they would have to do very little contractually and none Media and sponsorship appearances complete if they didn’t want to. The ÖFB would get decent painif they soon just concentrate on kicking.