Fußball in Simbabwe: “The largest stadium in the world was built here on the last square”

National trainer Nees message set

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“Football has an unbelievable position in Africa”, says Michael Nees. The 57-year-old Karlsruher must be erased. There are few opportunities for football development work, etwa in South Africa. There are better national teams from the Seychelles, Rwanda and newcomers in Simbabwe. After Reinhard Fabisch, Rudi Gutendorf and Klaus-Dieter Pagels are the four German selection coaches in the land of the Sambesi and the Victoriaval. The message with the Transfermarkt is one of the most important sporting events in African football.

He participated with the students of Christian Streich, Mirko Slomka or Michael Frontzeck in 2001 during the DFB-Trainerlehrgang. There is a focus point for the focus on the end of the Bundesliga, such as Freiburg-Ikone Streich or the many Slomka and Frontzeck, who as chief trainer at fünf bzw. sechs deutschen Klubs Station machten. No, it is likely that the world lands in South Africa, in Japan, in Kosovo, in Israel and in the eastern African island. If the opportunity arises, it is a matter of becoming bald with the blessing of Wahlheimat Simbabwe in Contact. “My first Landerspiel as a trainer is in the Seychelles 2003 in Simbabwe absolviert”, Nees states. “I was a naive and happy person, both at the game, 5,000 people were in the stadium.”

The fact is that the Arena was packed with 60,000 spectators when warming up. No, it is clear: “Men have earned more than 20,000 times more time and the total population of the Seychelles was no longer active in the stadium. The mood, the autumn, the war is unclear and lonely. As if I had already noticed that the country is totally football-frustrated.”

From July 2024, Michael Nees will be Simbabwes national trainer. ©ZIFA

21 years of später schließt sich der Kreis. No, it is no different in Simbabwe, says: ‘I am in my own home, we would like to build the largest stadium of the world here in Simbabwe and we will have a land show in the house, it would be a great place to invest. Gegen jeden Gegner – egal, wie groß.”

Take a look at the time of the Seychelles: “Land of absolutes”

From 2003 to 2004 Nees was National Trainer of the Seychelles and from 2006 to 2007 Selection Coach of Rwanda. Both stations are connected to each other and linked to each other. “The Seychelles were still a country of absolute conflict in 2003”, Nees remembers.

There is a lot: “If a family of the beautiful five-star hotels can imagine the man, one of the others can make a huge mangle a design or for a grundlegenden Gütern with its electric control system or babysitze for car. Was in Germany as self-confident empfinden, is in many African countries also not luxury. I think that the Seychelles national television during the trip in Australia made a design and no longer looked at Australia with the display of flat screens or a Mikrowellen herd in the air that a new generation has developed, so that this certainly can no longer be used ufen, weil es so it was in the Seychelles a fact. So go with the Auswärtsspielen a Day zum Einkaufen free. The players were father of the war, motivated and der Zusammenhalt war greats”, Nees said laughing.

“We spent a lot of time in a privately owned training camp in Germany,” he said, “but if we were not a guest in a hotel, we would also like to stay in an Art Jugendherberge with self-service treatment. The game must be removed and played in the group. A Gruppe war for Putzen ziständig, one for Abwaschen, one for Kochen. If I have major reservations, if I make an attempt to blow up a team, it may be that I still think it will go well, then I will become an absolute truth. Focus on team building in life and everything will go well. That is then reflected more broadly on the field. When you are at stake, an opaque man is a 100-odd players who play a flat war in the FIFA rankings, can win 2:1. In 2003 we were the eighth best in the FIFA world rankings. And that is the smallest country in Africa and a big sponsor. That made me happy.”

Nees: “Fußballers in Africa have great leadership skills”

Also in and with Rwanda needs a special moment. It was said: “In Russia in 2006 a new and young Nationalmannschaft was in power, which now comes from the Spielern from the einheimische Liga that has only been won. I have learned more than myself in that time, how great the Wort loyalty can be in Africa. My Torwarttrainer is one of the days, which training butchers in the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo is, his young brother, who is in the U20 of the Tor hut, is no longer able to perform, that is the Mannschaft verbflichte fuhlte. If you the day erfuhr ich, that his brother in the hospital is severely sick in death. I am about to grab a pack and let go. His brother is still frozen with the homecoming. That bothers me still today. “Watch for my life in Liberia in a qualifying game with a duration of 4:0.”

I have an African football hat that has brought about a professional experience over the years, which is not necessary. Erzählt: “The footballer in Africa has a fundamentally great Leidensfähigkeit. If you get the chance that a social solution is bought and a Soul of a professional ball, then you will not get out of it anymore. If you play in the Seychelles, you have not yet received permission for the federal states to use a farm equipment, it is a great experience to play the game, it is so good that the party is free and then has brought even more leistung. If there is a situation in Rwanda, there are quirky hotels at an Auswärtsspiel, but never bucht, and stands a zwei Uhr morgens or Unterkunft da. If there is total supremacy in the case of flugäu and flughäfen, my game can be played and slept on the ground a bit. The beds in Africa became bigger and more professional. Look at the CAF and FIFA. It is no longer a comparison of 15 to 20 years.

In Simbabwe it started with the Zusammenhalt family, Nees said. „Beispielsweise ist unsere Verbandszentrale übergangsweise nor a completely normal angemietetes Haus. Jeden Tag is bought for one of the kitchens and gemeinsam gegessen, who in a large WG. So it wasn’t possible.”

There is no need for greater football potential with Simbabwe

Grundsätzlich has done the work in the African Ländern, click on the Leben verändert. There are eight more hours needed on the small scale and on the large scale. “If I were on the African continent, then it is the joy of life and play”, said there. “I am sure that many of my colleagues are allowed to see it. If our training in the Ruanda hat is a smaller youth, it is a good hat. Trotzdem is not able to weld and with an unglazed Freude jeden Ball, which the Tor geschässen wurde, backückgeholt. At a certain pace, the pace is flogged with the wooden crücken by the gegend, inexplicable. If you look on the street, you can see that it is even more fun to play with banana shells, plastic and so that it can be played and played. “

While the two coaching stations in Africa, with the Seychelles and Rwanda, have not achieved any major roles in African football, Simbawe are in a different category. Ready for five times, the “Warriors” could qualify for the African Cup qualification, due in 2022. The goal is clear: The qualification for the tournament to be held in Morocco next year. In the first qualifying match to reach Kenya (0:0) and the Chamber (0:0), Simbawe can find the first punk a fact. If you see the trainer, you do not need a team win, you can play a few games at the performance teams during training.

With Marshall Munetsi (Stade Reims), Jordan Zemura (Udinese Calcio) and Tino Kadewere (FC Nantes), the Stammspieler play with the Topligen Europa with Aufgebot Simbabwes, with Marvelous Nakamba (Luton Town), Munashe Garananga (FC Copenhagen), Andy Rinomhota ( Cardiff City), Tawanda Chirewa (Coventry City) and Tawanda Maswanhise (FC Motherwell) are still active in Europe. “If you are a natural person, if you are a national trainer in a single country, you will be happy all the time,” Nees notes. „Der Druck, der hier herrscht, is aber genauso groß, wie in Europa. And the waiting time is probably not greater, but even if the Stammspieler dies. ” The first press conferences were attended by 40 journalists.

The great redevelopment as a national trainer is more, with the games in the knapp zur Verfügung standing time as possible re-set much. No, studies: “The international game calendar is packed until the start. I see that as a trainer I get to work on the education and the structure of the company. Of course it is my soul, with the national team Erfolg zu haben. If you go a step further, it is not so that you make a positive impression of the hinterlands and the ground construction sites, which provide one of my subsequent profitable costs. “

Interview with Henrik Stadnischenko