Ralf Rangnick and Julian Nagelsmann each lost a cup final
The prominent predecessors each lost a DFB Cup final against FC Bayern (0:3/2019) and Borussia Dortmund (1:4/2021) after tactical errors. Even if not everything worked out under Tedesco in the hard-fought work victory against the robust team from Union Berlin: The mentality is intact. And because of their speed, their power and their individual class, the RB ensemble does not have to fear an opponent either nationally or internationally.
There is no question that the football coach, who worked successfully at Erzgebirge Aue, initially at FC Schalke 04 and most recently at Spartak Moscow, pressed the right buttons. His speech, his choice of personnel, his orientation: everything seems consistent. “We did this together. The team is very hungry”says the multilingual Tedesco, who has found access to all factions of the multi-nationality-spiked luxury squad.
Domenico Tedesco has good prospects
The future belongs to his team of solo artists such as the highly talented Frenchman Christopher Nkunku, who according to Mintzlaff is not for sale this summer, or the no less talented Spaniard Daniel Olmo. Tedesco was recently noted that he was very tempted to refute some prejudices from his time at Schalke – keyword defensive football, lack of long-term development.
He wants out of these drawers; In Germany in particular, people tend to forget that Tedesco surprisingly finished runners-up in his first season before the royal blues took him down too. Spartak Moscow was instructive for the coach because he nursed back a traditional club that had crashed, Spartak is by far the most popular club in Russia. After he ended his engagement in Russia for private reasons in the summer, he didn’t immediately accept the first offers from the Bundesliga, the Italian Serie A or even from Hungary, Austria or Turkey.
At Erzgebirge Aue, the accountant hugged him
The wait for Leipzig was worth it: perhaps the ambitious club and the ambitious coach actually found two parties and found each other. When asked whether he would fit in particularly well in the “East” in a figurative sense because of his stations in Aue, Moscow and now in Leipzig, the guest worker’s son answered in Saxon for fun.
Without kidding the dialect, the German-Italian clarified: “I like the people here, they have a big heart.” From his time at Erzgebirge Aue, he has not forgotten how the accountant would have hugged him before every game – at RB Leipzig it is now the CEO.