FC Basel is upgrading: new players, a new coach and a lot of potential

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With Kim Kulig, a big name in women’s football moves to the Rhine. The German comes over from Champions League finalist Wolfsburg, where she has been an assistant coach for the past two years. For the 33-time international, the switch to the Women’s Super League is not a step backwards. “It’s a huge honor for me to be here and work for this club.” Thanks to the international successes of the gentlemen, FCB also has a good reputation in Germany.

The former midfielder wants to develop something in Basel together with Theo Karapetsas, head of women’s football. “There is a lot of potential here. We want to help women’s football move forward,” said Kulig. The revolution will take time. “But we are patient.” FCB has already hit the transfer market in any case. Ten players come from the Bundesliga, including the Croatian Ivana Rudelic of champion Bayern Munich Swiss World Cup participant Coumba Sow signed a three-year contract with FCB.

Attack on the top

“It all grew out of our shit,” says Kulig, who had a good feeling from the first contact with the club. According to Karapetsas, FCB has similar financial opportunities as its former employer and champion Zurich. Although the budget has not been increased compared to last season, the women benefit from synergies thanks to the integration into FC Basel 1893 AG, which saves costs and allows the money released to be used elsewhere. However, also in the new season there will be no more pure professionals at FCB.

The money is not only invested in new players. Kulig gets an extra assistant and new teams and extra coaching positions have been created in the youth. In cooperation with the regional association and the village clubs, something sustainable must be created in Basel and the region. In the Super League you want to reach the top in the short rather than the medium term. The playoff mode suits the FCB.

End of career at 25

Head of the project alongside Karapetsas is Kim Kulig. The fact that the 33-year-old already has a considerable amount of coaching experience is because the 2009 European champion (with Inka Grings) and final scorer had to end her career at the age of 25 due to persistent knee problems. . “I would still like to be a player today,” says Kulig. There were stages where she would have cursed football. Meanwhile, she studied sports marketing and interior design. “But I felt I wasn’t done with football. Because football is my life.”

Source : Blick