THE THREE COACHES WHO INSPIRED RANGNICK
Club reporter Stewart Gardner put that question to the forward-thinking German during our in-depth interview, which is available to watch now via the United App, ManUtd.com, and MUTV.Information Guide Nigeria
Seated inside Old Trafford, surrounded by history, Rangnick looks back on his story and points to the three men who helped him to become the respected ‘professor’ of football he is today.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to Canada“Yes, I would say there were two or three people who inspired me,” explains Ralf. “In the first instance, it was a friend of mine called Helmut Gross.
“He inspired not only me but also quite a few other German coaches. He was an amateur coach himself. In normal business, he was an engineer building bridges, but at the time he was probably the first coach in Germany who played with a back four with ball-orientated zonal marking.
“I met him when I was 23, 24, and he had great influence on my development as a coach, and since then we have worked together at Red Bull and in Hoffenheim.
“During my time as a coach, I was also inspired at the time by Arrigo Sacchi at Milan in the 1980s. They not only dominated European football, but they also created a very sustainable, a very special, a very unique style of football.
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“And in my first time of coaching in my home town in Backnang we played against Valeriy Lobanovskyi’s Dynamo Kiev, I was on the pitch and I have told the story many times that after 10 minutes I had to count the players on the pitch because I felt as if they had one or two players more than my team. After the game, I spoke to Valeriy Lobanovskyi with a translator and they told me that they trained that every day, pressing all over the pitch every time.
