“If we don’t qualify for the World Cup, I’ll no longer be Austria’s coach the next day,” he said Ralf Rangnick said. The clear words of the team boss are always a blessing. The German expresses his goals clearly and does not speak strongly to opponents in order to be better off in the event of failure. Be at this point a valued editorial colleague quoted who once said smugly after a Bundesliga club’s embarrassing defeat in the ÖFB Cup against a state league team: “They already train three times a week!”
At this point we prefer to borrow from the team boss’s clear words: The kickers are out Romania, Bosnia, Cyprus and San Marino definitely exercise daily and some days twice. They still have to be switched off on the way to the USA, Canada and Mexico.
All nine million team bosses in the country expect Austria to qualify through this group. Nothing will change if you try to match expectations with anything relativizing statements to keep on the ground. Therefore: Chest out Rangnick will remain team boss for a longer period of time. Austria is going to the World Cup in 2026. And for once it almost doesn’t matter who the ÖFB president is.