Wants to be a Bundesliga coach
After the end of his playing career, Holger Badstuber wants to start his coaching career next year and eventually take over a team in the Bundesliga. “I want to gain my experience in the youth field and then see where it should go. I’m the type for senior and professional football, but I want to take my time and do targeted training. At some point I would like to show up in the Bundesliga,” said the former national player.table football” in an interview. But it could “at some point also be the top professional area abroad. The start of this new section is scheduled for 2023.”
Badstuber started his professional career at FC Bayern Munich and quickly became a regular player under coach Louis van Gaal. In his other stations at FC Schalke 04 or VfB Stuttgart, things never went as well as at the beginning, despite good phases. The 33-year-old, who has repeatedly struggled with injuries, officially retired two weeks ago, most recently with FC Luzern in Switzerland.
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“My career was special because I was able to experience every phase of being a footballer. There were grandiose sections, others cost strength. If you are successful, you not only go through football with great ease, but also through life. But I was also at the bottom and had experiences that I struggled with, but from which I came out stronger,” explained Badstuber, for whom the positive experiences outweigh the negative. There was never a moment for him to want to throw everything away. “No, I love the game way too much for that. Giving up was never an option for me, I never wanted to give up this weakness.”
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After 13 years as a professional, Badstuber has made a total of 386 appearances at club level with 16 goals and eleven assists. In 2009, the defender made the leap from youth to the first team at FC Bayern, for which he played 177 games – more than for any other club. “My career started from zero to one hundred, in the first three and a half years I had the most minutes at FC Bayern, then followed three years in which my body went on strike. It was a time that wasn’t easy and I wasn’t easy.”
The Swabian, who made 31 appearances for the national team, was often thrown back in his career due to injuries, and the many physical setbacks became a problem. “There were already doubts as to whether my body would still hold up – from others, not from me. If a player cannot be available for that long, a big club like FC Bayern starts to lose trust. I felt that. But these doubts were justified.”
Badstuber misses honesty in professional football and doesn’t want to step in
Badstuber did not always experience honesty at all stations. “No. Honesty is not universal in this business in general. And in my clubs, where things aren’t going so well, it starts with the head of the structure, with the club management,” said the native of Memminger. “You have to function, otherwise you’ll be gone quickly. Football has become a business of profit and power. The clubs and players want to get as much out of it as possible, humanity falls by the wayside.”
Unsurprisingly, Badstuber could not understand the decision of those responsible at VfB Stuttgart in August 2020 to send him to the reserve, but he accepted the new role. “Has it ever happened that a big name was demoted like that? I don’t know. Everything could have been solved differently. I have learned to accept such decisions and make the best of them. I did it. What I left behind was important to me,” Badstuber looked back. Sporting reasons were given to him as a reason. “Within two years, there were only two discussions with the club management. Those are the facts, I won’t follow them. I behaved respectfully and professionally.”
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