Hardly anyone has him on the screen
Guardiola proud of German coaches
11.05.2025 – 3:16 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Great honor for a German coach: none other than Pep Guardiola found praise for him – and he never trained a professional team.
Pep Guardiola is one of the most successful trainers in the present. With FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, he won twelve national championship titles, won the Champions League three times and was elected world coach of the year three times. His word has weight – and with it his praise for an almost unknown German trainer.
“I am very proud,” explains Guardiola on the club website of Manchester City and means the work of Oliver Reiss and his team. And further: “Of course I congratulate him for the incredible work. I think that the players are much better than they may have been before one, two or three seasons.” Reiss would have managed to convey an intensity to the team that it never had before him. Guardiola big words, but who is tearing?
The 42-year-old German currently looks after the U18 of the Cityzens together with his assistant coach, the Premier League legend Kolo Toure. Before the season, Reiss moved from the Hertha BSC youth academy to England. With City he won the title in the Premier League-North in the first season and will and his team will meet Aston Villa on May 17th in the final game of the championship, the winner from the south.
In Germany, Reiss is probably only known insiders. At the beginning of the season, he could have accepted the job as assistant coach under Cristian Fiél with the professionals from Hertha BSC, but he decided on a different way. So far, he has not trained a professional team, but was a coach in the youth department of Hertha BSC for 17 years.