After the Nati coach was fired: now the women’s boss of the SFV responds to Grings’ Blick interview

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The women’s national team will meet in Pfäffikon SZ on Monday for the last meeting of the year. Under interim coach Reto Gertschen (58), the miracle of avoiding relegation in the Nations League must be achieved in the remaining matches on Friday in Lucerne against Sweden and on Tuesday in Italy.

But at the media meeting in the team hotel with SFV women’s football boss Marion Daube (47), dismissed national coach Inka Grings (45) is again a big topic. Daube describes that she could not immediately return to work after the dismissal of her former FCZ colleague. “There are always people behind such decisions. It is normal to have many thoughts afterwards.”

Daube puts Grings’ information about the case into perspective

But the Zurich resident with German roots also emphasizes: “The decision was right. It was inevitable.” As a reminder, the SFV heard through the media about Grings’ involvement in investigations against her former employer SV Straelen and local club chairman Hermann Tecklenburg (75), and this breach of trust subsequently led to her being expelled.

But Grings countered in the exclusive SonntagsBlick interview that her direct boss at the SFV was well aware that something from Straelen’s time could come out in the media. So the SFV knew about it? Daube puts it into perspective: “It’s true, Inka once called me and said there was a case involving Hermann Tecklenburg. The message was not that we should expect Inka to be involved somewhere and for the case to be of this magnitude. The information that she was also investigated would certainly have been important.”

In principle, it is a fact that the Straelen case and Grings’ suboptimal communication with the SFV were the straw that broke the camel’s back for the national coach. She was counted with just one win in 14 matches, plus there were questions about tactics and the complicated relationship with record player Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic. “It was certainly an accumulation,” Daube says now, suggesting that serious discussions about the future would have taken place during the winter break anyway.

This is what Captain Lia Wälti says

The women’s boss wants to take seriously the fact that Grings felt there was not enough support internally. She also wants a kind of ‘Pierluigi Tami’ for women.

The players’ reactions to the Grings-Out? Lia Wälti (30) and Meriame Terchoun (28) who attended the media event were certainly professionally cool. The duo was anything but part of the Pro-Grings faction in the team. Captain Wälti says: «There are things in life that work and things that don’t work. It was a difficult year. There wasn’t much coming together both on and off the field.” But Wälti and Terchoun also know: now the team has a duty to respond.

Source : Blick