“He gets more from less”: Larifari’s accusation haunts Nati coach Yakin

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The national team, together with the apparently lightweight qualifying opponents Kosovo and football dwarf Andorra, managed to give the team explosiveness and be the number one talking point again. Main actors again: Granit Xhaka and Murat Yakin. First, captain and coach challenge each other and joke at the joint press conference prior to the match against Kosovo. After the 2:2, jokes become serious. Xhaka accuses Yakin of larifari training.

Once again there is a fight between the two alpha animals. And it was probably not the last, even though both emphasized after the 3-0 win against Andorra that they had spoken out.

This does not surprise managerial legend Erich Vogel (84). He says: “As a player, Muri could also rebel against his coaches, just like Xhaka. The two share a deep kinship – both are rebels.” And as a result, they tend to repeatedly cross the line with their statements, causing unrest in their environment and scaring people, Vogel continued. “Yakin did that several times as a player and Xhaka is his designated successor.” Both confident. Both dominant. Both proud.

If anyone knows what inspired Yakin as a player, it’s Vogel. It was he who brought the 17-year-old exceptional talent from Concordia Basel to the rankings in 1992, and years later he also sent him to FCB. After his dismissal as a player in 2006, Vogel also supported the current national coach as a coach.

In the run-up to the game against Andorra, quite a few experts called for Xhaka to be left on the bench. “Anyone who demands something like that has no idea. You cannot resolve a conflict by opening a new location,” says Vogel. “If Muri had reacted like that, he would have come across as an insulted liverwurst. He resolved it with confidence.”

Yakin always has a nonchalant appearance

Vogel says he cannot judge from a distance whether Xhaka was right with his criticism. “But it certainly wasn’t the right time for that.”

Xhaka’s Larifari accusation. This is not entirely new in Yakin’s life. It is often said that he has a taste for comfort. As a player he even flirted with this image himself. For example, in the summer of 2003 with his ‘I-eat-gummy-bears-and-chill-in-the-hammock’ photo in sight. FCB coach Christian Gross was annoyed by it at the time. Although his then teammate, Boris Smiljanic, says Muri knew exactly when it was important and when to let things take their course as a player, Yakin’s reputation as an exceptional talent who was rather slow to start has stuck with him. He follows him to the dugout.

The quarrel with Constantin ended in court

He is always surrounded by an atmosphere of nonchalance, carelessness and nonchalance. “A cool sock,” actor and comedian Beat Schlatter calls the Nati coach. The commercial for an insurance company with Yakin in the leading role at the end of 2021 is fitting: the national coach in a purple suit, orange turtleneck and large sunglasses calmly and casually accepts a minor body injury.

In Valais, Christian Constantin praised him highly when he was accepted. When they broke up nine months later, he accused him of being lazy. The whole case ended up in court, where Yakin won. “He thinks so much about the opponent, about his teammates, about everything. But he is not the type to sit in the trainer’s office for twelve hours,” said Hakan Yakin, who was his brother’s assistant coach at Schaffhausen, in “Blick Kick” in December 2022. He said his brother would definitely be on the golf course can stand during the World Cup in Doha. “He is often portrayed as lazy. But he may get more out of less than other coaches. If necessary, combine something useful with something pleasant. My tip: just let Muri do it and everything will be fine. If you tell him to do things, he can do them.” According to information from Blick, Xhaka cursed loudly about Larifari training at the World Cup in Qatar. At the time, it remained entirely internal.

Yakin shaved his brother and sent Frei into retirement

They are so similar in spirit, so different in their demeanor. Xhaka is nowhere accused of complacency. On the contrary: he is the awkward fighter, brash, demanding and causing problems for Gladbach from an early age.

Like Xhaka, Yakin doesn’t care much about hierarchies and pecking orders. In Lucerne he shaved his own brother Hakan in 2011, and at FCB he later sent icon Alex Frei into football retirement, as it were.

Xhaka is not threatened with the same in the national team. Because Yakin is not only fearless and uncompromising, he is also smart. Without Xhaka this is not possible at the moment; The captain is too important, too powerful and not least too good for that. So it will certainly not be the last time that the two alphas Yakin and Xhaka disagree with each other.

Source : Blick