So schauts aus!

Can this organization and these framework conditions actually live up to the lofty training principles of DFB talent development? On the DFB Academy's website, under the tab "Information on the DFB Development Program," the principles are at least presented in grandiose terms! You need to know that the development program refers to the so-called regional-base training at the roughly 350 DFB bases. There, talented U13 and U15 players train together once a week for 90 minutes.

"Watzke Announces DFB Bombshell" is the headline of an article in which SPORT1 reports that Hans-Joachim Watzke, the DFB vice-president and Borussia Dortmund managing director, is setting in motion a reform of the reform in children's football (U6 to U11)! Excuse me, but the 64-year-old DFB vice-president is a successful businessman and one of the most influential — if not the most influential — football official in Germany, and certainly very knowledgeable in commercial matt

"I see Mats (name freely invented) as a player, not as a project," replied the young head coach of a U13 team at an academy (NLZ) to a worried father's question about the presumed playing time his offspring might get, at the point when, after three trial training sessions, the boy was facing the decision of whether to join the academy's team or not. For clarity: by "player," the coach meant something like a "squad player," while he referred to players with development potenti

Many young couples ask themselves whether they can live up to the responsibility of being parents, and whether, given the state of our environment or of society, it would even be fair to a young citizen of the earth to begin a life right now. Questions that previous generations also asked themselves, and ones that certainly aren't easy to answer. Accompanying a young life on its journey should, in my view, be approached not with worry but with trust and confidence, full of cu

In a certain sense, by writing the posts in my column "So schaut's aus," I belong to this group too, but I'm not proud of it. Actually, I wanted to dedicate the new article once again to the important topic of "parents" in connection with talent development, but the immediate influence of the media and current reporting gave me no peace, so I'm picking up the topic of "current, especially web-based reporting" and the dangers associated with it once again. In my second post, .