a écrit le 31 juillet 2013 à 18h11 When, following the 1997 relegation, Volker Finke set about creating a new team from scratch yet again, he faced a problem he hadn't had in 1991. The typical Freiburg player - inconspicuous but clever, technically gifted and fast-learning - was now scouted by other teams as well.
GettyImages / BongartsJoachim Low: Inspired by Finke
At one point in Moneyball, Paul DePodesta says: 'I hope they continue to believe that our way doesn't work. It buys us a few more years.' The years they had bought at Freiburg were slowly coming to an end. In 2001, Volker Finke would look back on his decade at the helm and say: 'The tactical advantage we used to have is gone.' By which he meant that the league had learned too much from Freiburg.
Their style, which once contrasted so sharply with the game as played by the other teams, had become the new standard over the course of all those seasons. At the very latest after the national team's debacles at the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championships, German football finally moved into the foreign Freiburg territory and made itself comfortable there.
GettyImages / BongartsJoachim Low: Inspired by Finke
At one point in Moneyball, Paul DePodesta says: 'I hope they continue to believe that our way doesn't work. It buys us a few more years.' The years they had bought at Freiburg were slowly coming to an end. In 2001, Volker Finke would look back on his decade at the helm and say: 'The tactical advantage we used to have is gone.' By which he meant that the league had learned too much from Freiburg.
Their style, which once contrasted so sharply with the game as played by the other teams, had become the new standard over the course of all those seasons. At the very latest after the national team's debacles at the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championships, German football finally moved into the foreign Freiburg territory and made itself comfortable there.
