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Alex Frei, are you happy to have a job again four months after being fired from FCB?
Alex free: The rest did me good, I could take some distance from football. Family time, lots of reading – I did things that are neglected in day-to-day coaching. But as someone who likes to work, I soon felt ready for a new task. I was not physically exhausted after eight months at FC Basel. Now it’s time for me to do something again – by the way, my wife agrees (laughs).
Urs Fischer said the first dismissal as coach was the worst, it would gnaw forever. Do you feel the same?
It will definitely help me get back on board soon. An exemption is never easy. At the end of the day, my wife suffered more than I did. Immediately after the release we went on a family vacation in Oman. It was the best vacation of my life.
On paper, FC Aarau is a step backwards after FC Basel.
I see it very differently! I don’t operate on prestige. The decisive question for me is: what can I move? Who do I work with? Is there a certain humility in the club? Does the club move its environment? Whether Super or Challenge League is totally irrelevant, I just need to feel good.
With a gap of four months, do you have any understanding for the dismissal at FCB?
As a trainer, can you understand your own dismissal or release? Maybe there are coaches who say they fired themselves too. But that is the absolute exception. I will never fit in because I am fundamentally convinced of my work.
What mistakes did you make at FCB?
Of course there were, but I’m making that up for myself and not in public.
Got stuck dealing with veterans Taulant Xhaka and Fabian Frei? One time he played, then the other.
No.
Have you lost a friend since February?
What do you mean?
You were friends with Heiko Vogel for a long time. Until he fired her as head of sports at FCB a few weeks after she took office.
I recently had contact with Heiko. Purely professionally, it was about the contract termination at FCB. He told me that he was very happy for me and that FC Aarau was the ideal job for me. And that he will always be available if I need anything. As soon as I’m settled in Aarau, I’ll have dinner with Heiko. And explain my position to him.
That sounds like reconciliation…
At some point it is important to listen to the other person’s attitude and compare it to your own. And then you can decide if a reconciliation is possible. But I am now the coach of FC Aarau, I don’t really want to talk about FCB anymore.
Another question: it has been clear for over two weeks that you will be the coach of Aarau, but only this week you signed until 2025. Why did it take so long to terminate the contract with FCB?
Because there were certain things that needed to be clarified. From all parties involved.
Is FC Aarau your second choice? There are those who say that you would now be the classification coach if the Chinese had not vetoed it.
When I read that, I actually thought for a moment about creating an Instagram or Twitter profile. Because on these channels you can clarify things directly and from your own point of view.
Why not?
Because otherwise I would be tweeting all the time (laughs). Seriously, anyone who knows me knows that such accusations do me no justice. Nor FC Aarau.
Have you negotiated with general classification leader Bernt Haas?
There’s nothing to say about that because it’s irrelevant.
It is heard that Winti sports director Oliver Kaiser tried to convince you of a comeback on the Schützenwiese.
If I keep my word at a club, I’ll do it. Maybe I’m the exception. But the values I demand from my players and fellow human beings I try to live for myself every day. Before I negotiated with Sandro Burki (CEO FC Aarau; ed.) About the duration of the contract and the salary, I told him: if you want me, I’ll come too!
You are the epitome of ambition and ambition. You don’t come to FC Aarau to finish third. You want to move up, right?
If third place at the end of the season is the right thing for the club’s development, I am as happy with it as with promotion. We will not declare rank to the target. But they will mediate internally and externally to stay at the front of the table as long as possible. It is also my goal to make every player here better. Together with the technical staff, create an even closer bond between the team and the public. And to attract even more fans to the Brügglifeld. As a player I never liked coming to Aarau because here as opponents you always had the feeling that you were playing against 30 opponents instead of eleven. Because the fans feel like they have one foot on the pitch. The opponents must have this respect again in the future when they enter the Brügglifeld.
Source : Blick
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