Klopp: Frank was the most developing coach I've ever had

Wolfgang Frank has shown us a completely different approach to football. We have become better better as a team. Therefore, he was the most simple coach I've ever had, says Jürgen Klopp. Today's Liverpool coach has fed as a player between 1995 to 1997 and 1998 to 2000. Together with Ralf Rangnick Frank introduced the four-chain and ball-oriented spatial coverage in Germany. He inspired a whole generation of players with his kind, so, for example, Sandro black and torsten Lieberknecht were bundesliga trainer.

Wolfgang Frank had the vision, the expertise and the courage to revive the team a new idea of ​​football.

Stefan Hofmann

Wolfgang Frank has Mainz 05 shaped like no other coach before him. He had the vision, the expertise and the courage to dow the team a new idea of ​​football, said Stefan Hofmann, the 05 CEO CEO. He was a positive sense of football crazy, he lived the football of early morning until late at night. He was a leader, driver, motivator, which is consistently followed by his idea of ​​football, and the gift had team and environment emotionally, added sports board Christian Heidel, who committed Frank twice as a coach, the impatience and restlessness of the football teacher who In 2013, after a serious illness at the age of 62, died, the commitments in Mainz led no longer lasting.

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Construction of a new office moved again

The Identity Stifting Naming, so Hofmann, documents itself on the training grounds through large banners on the places as well as several information boards. Originally, the association with the renaming also wanted to combine the laying of the foundation stone for the construction of a new building, which is also to be home to the outsourced office and has been talking about since 2012. However, the shortfalls due to the Corona pandemic led to a renewed shift of the project. In the past 25 years, Mainz 05 has invested nearly 30 million euros in the training area. Most recently, the training places of the professionals and U 23 were expanded and modernized for around 3.5 million.

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