No return as team leader: FCB coach Vogel initiated his debunking himself

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Welcome weeks for FC Basel: Red-Blauw will only play against teams from French-speaking Switzerland in the Super League until mid-November. The matches against Servette (twice), Lausanne-Sport and Yverdon will ultimately show whether the dismissal of ex-coach Timo Schultz was the right measure against the sporting decline.

Schultz’s former boss is now his successor. So far it hasn’t gotten any better: 0:3 against Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy, 0:3 against YB. In the first two matches under his auspices, Heiko Vogel lost further credit.

Internally at FCB, a return of the German to the chairmanship of the sports director is now ruled out. Vogel’s job title “Trainer until further notice” can safely be shortened to “Trainer”. That’s Vogel now, nothing more and nothing less. Because one thing is clear: the role reversal from team leader to coach amounts to a descent of several floors in the red-blue power pyramid.

Disempowerment, involuntary and voluntary

A powerlessness that Vogel himself initiated. Involuntary and voluntary. First of all, he was very wrong with his choice of coach, Timo Schultz. But when he noticed, he took responsibility and offered the board of directors to clean up the mess. In the form of a comeback on the sidelines. Even though he had effectively ended his coaching career. That honors Vogel.

But the back and forth is also the reason for his end as team leader. No coach would take on the FCB job under sports director Heiko Vogel after the chaos since the beginning of this year. Moreover, the already strained credibility of Vogel and the club would finally be gone.

This means: if Heiko Vogel succeeds as a coach, he will continue to work at FC Basel for a long time. If he doesn’t, he will suffer the same fate as any coach who cannot deliver results.

In the FCB sports situation, it is not a disadvantage if the coach is just a coach. And can fully concentrate on leading the team out of the basement. Unlike president David Degen, Vogel avoids the word ‘relegation battle’ as much as possible, but he says: ‘We have to face reality. We can’t talk about being back in the spotlight in the spring. We need points as soon as possible and with the way we have trained in recent days, I think the players have understood the situation.”

Source : Blick