New coach Sandro Wagner jokes through Schweinsteiger

New Augsburg trainer introduces itself

Sandro Wagner jokes via Bastian Schweinsteiger

With Sandro Wagner, FC Augsburg has signed a prominent coach for the coming season. This also showed the media echo directly at his inaugural PK.

At his first press conference as the new coach of FC Augsburg, the new head coach Sandro Wagner showed himself in a good mood. With a smile he alluded to his gray hair and joked in alluding to the TV expert Bastian Schweinsteiger: “I already have a few gray hair at 37, a little early. I hope that I am not completely white at the end of the season-like Schweini.” His former teammate Bastian Schweinsteiger has now been completely gray.

Wagner repeatedly emphasized how much he is looking forward to his new task – the first coaching station in the Bundesliga. “He would” come to work “every day with a smile on his face”, he emphasized in front of the first unit and added a smile: “I am a worker. There will be a lot on the boys. “

Anyone who believed that the former assistant of national coach Julian Nagelsmann appeared with research was deceived. Sandro Wagner presented himself cautiously and emphasized that he was still a “learner” and “very humble – even if you might not suspect it”. He deliberately left concrete objectives open: “I have not yet played a game as head coach – it would be unwise to make big announcements now.”

The media interest was huge at his first appearance as a FCA trainer. Around 50 journalists and eight camera teams gathered in the press room of FC Augsburg to pursue his idea. Wagner himself was surprised by the big hustle and bustle – he couldn’t do anything for the hype, he emphasized. A lot of attention was even rather uncomfortable for him: “Who am I?” He asked.

Thanks to almost continuous placements in the Bundesliga table, FC Augsburg has a “gray-mouse image” in public. On the question of whether the Fuggerstädter Wagner obliged to get rid of the well -known personality of that image, the managing director Michael Ströll replied: “Sandro Wagner has been committed because he fits 100% in our requirement profile in a sporting nature and because it has the same ambitions as the club. Everything else was totally uninteresting for us.” Wagner “convinced in terms of sport and content”, plus “a clear plan of how he wants to play football”.

The former German international was still quite vague how exactly this football Wagner will look. He wants to have “active” football played. He is convinced of his squad. “If one or the other bratwurst had been too much, I wouldn’t have done it. I see a lot of potential,” said Wagner in his usual flippant way.