Austrian footballers are on the teams Champions-League-Starter Red Bull Salzburg and Storm Graz can currently be counted on one or two fingers. ÖFB team boss Ralf Rangnick I don’t want to let that bother me. What is more important to him is that there is a good one in Austria Young talent training the German emphasized. There was praise in this regard Rapid the developments at Salzburg’s farm team Delivery item questioned Rangnick.
“There was a long time there, which I also helped to initiate, when the nomen omen was – Liefering delivered,” Rangnick explained to journalists in Vienna. Two, three or four players from the second division team would have regularly pushed into Salzburg’s first team. “Those at the top couldn’t use them that quickly, and the next generation down below has already come along.” That’s not the case at the moment.
Because Salzburg is trying to be the biggest Young talents To guide the country to his academy, promising Austrians also play in Liefering. According to Rangnick, these are obviously not good enough to be considered by the professionals. “That’s not a criticism, but I would like to ask myself the question: Is the work there still working at exactly the same level of standards? No player is in the first team squad. Is all the commitment you put in worth it?”
To the specifications of the Austrian potwith which the Bundesliga financially rewards minutes played by local players, has never been maintained by Salzburg. More and more clubs, especially Sturm, are following suit. “I’m basically not someone who… Odds or Special payments believes,” emphasized Rangnick. Clubs, he knows from his own experience as a sports director, always put together their squads based on performance criteria. “We have to deal with what the reality is.”
Rapid provides for months most players of all Bundesliga clubs in the senior national team. Hütteldorfer’s presence is also large in the U21 and other ÖFB youth teams. “Rapid has been doing good work with young talent for many years,” said Rangnick. That’s the case in Austria too the only waythat you can go.
His Focus Rangnick, who has a say in many matters within the association, wants to step up on the substructure direct. “We have to make sure that the really good players stay in football and have the chance to develop at the age of six to ten,” said the 66-year-old. That stands or falls with it Trainer training. “It’s very good, but you can still see how you can continue to improve things.”
Rangnick himself is completing two this week Training sessions with ten to 13 year olds – on Thursday in Leithaprodersdorf in Burgenland and on Friday in Horn. Ex-national player Martin Stranzl will support him in this. Rangnick: “All forces have to be pooled together so that Austria continues to develop really good players in the future who are good enough to help the senior national team.” Whether they would then play as professionals at home or abroad is up to them not so important in the end.