Yes okay from me. Gerland was never a good coach anyway … I mean what did he win as a coach? And please don’t count me titles where he was a co-trainer.
With all respect, but if you think only head coaches count, football never understood deeper than in the Kicker headlines.
Hermann Gerland is an absolute legend – not only at FC Bayern, but throughout German football. He was in the club for over 25 years, shaped and encouraged generations of players long before they even appeared on the title radar. Philipp Lahm, Bastian Schweinsteiger, David Alaba, Thomas Müller – all names that may never have made the same career without Gerland. And yes: Müller still calls him his “favorite coach”.
Gerland was under van Gaal, Heynckes, Guardiola and Flick assistant trainer-and was taken over directly by almost all successors. That only ended with Ancelotti. You will not be kept among absolute top coaches. This is professional excellence. He was part of the coaching teams who won the Champions League victory in 2013 and 2020, international and countless national titles. But yes-it doesn’t count because “assistant coach”. 😉
Even after his Bayern exit, he demonstrated again how valuable he is: Vice European champion with the U21, with an outstanding balance. Antonio di Salvo describes him as a “gift”, Neuer said literally at the time: “That Miro and Hermann go, it hurts”. Not for no reason.
Anyone who really believes that Guardiola, van Gaal or Heynckes would have just let him run along, completely fails to know how top teams work. A assistant coach like Gerland is a manager, mentor, tactic body and cultural keeper at the same time.
Sure – you don’t have to like it. But to say that he is not a good trainer is simply wrong. Assistant coaches are also a trainer, and in his case he was even more than that: link, sponsor, constant.
Success just has many fathers. Gerland was one of the most important. Point.
GREETINGS.