Probably no other football club in Germany is looked at as closely as FC Bayern. The Munich are under constant observation, every mistake, every defeat is immediately publicized and exploited. It goes without saying that the head coach’s job of all things is not for the faint-hearted. Julian Nagelsmann has now spoken about the special mental challenges at FC Bayern.
“I actually had tests done on the risk of burnout,” revealed the Munich coach in an interview with “Amazon Prime” before FC Bayern’s Champions League duel with FC Villarreal.
“You do IQ tests, stress resistance tests against a wide variety of visual and auditory stimuli. And then there are test protocols that then spit out a percentage probability that you will eventually get a burnout or not,” reported the 34- Year-olds, who immediately added: “I’m at zero percent. I’m at zero percent. There are really few people who are at zero percent. I hope the machine is right.”
Julian Nagelsmann took over the German record champions last summer and is aiming for his first personal German championship of the current season with the Munich team.
Personal conversation with Rangnick about burnout
Most recently, the Max Eberl case caused a great deal of excitement in the German football landscape. The long-time Gladbach manager had withdrawn from sporting responsibility at Borussia Mönchengladbach due to mental exhaustion.
“For everyone it [Burnout, Anm. d. Red.] have: I think that’s a terrible feeling. I’ve been there with Ralf [Rangnick, d. Red.] talked about it. You just have to try to control things from the outside in order to keep the risk that comes or breaks out at some point as low as possible.”
Nagelsmann once worked with Ralf Rangnick during his time at RB Leipzig, when he was head coach and Rangnick Head of Sport and Development Soccer at the Saxons.
Rangnick had once given up his coaching job at FC Schalke in 2011 due to an exhaustion syndrome.