Darmstadt 98: Schmitz: once a limelight and back again

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It was in February 2019, the SV Darmstadt 98 stood threatening close to the descent ranks, in relation between the former success trainer Dirk Schuster and the team crunched it for a long time and after the tedious 1: 1 at the SV Sandhausen the club finally parted by Schuster .

The trainer search lasted a few days, so you needed a transitional solution for the game against Dynamo Dresden. That s why I jumped for a game, recalls athletic coach Kai Peter Schmitz. But that was not just me, there also helped a few others at all corners and ends, which do not even appear in public.

Probably the most successful lilies coach of history

The game won the lilies with Schmitz on the side line 2: 0. With the maximum point quotient of 3.0 (a game, three points) today is the 50-year-old most successful Lilies coach of history. However, since he only owns the A trainer license, he was only allowed to act as Interim coach, which is not a problem for him.

It was clear that I then accessed the next coach if he needs me, he says. Already a day after victory, Dimitrios Grammozis was presented as a new coach. Schmitz returned back to the second link. A head coach needs good staff, so everything works. That makes me a lot of fun, I feel comfortable.

Something with every coach

Schmitz came in the summer of 2016 with Norbert Meier to the Böllenfalltor, later worked under Ramon Berndroth and Torsten Frings. SCHUSTER and GRAMMOZIS followed Mark s start and now Torsten Lieberknecht. Every coach has his peculiarities - and from each he took a little, he says. But that was actually with all people so to work with.

While the coach came and went, Schmitz remained. This is certainly because I m not a co-coach with a particular head coach, he says. It also happened to him other than the co-trainer of the Dresdner in February 2019: After the 0: 2, the Saxons of Chef coach Maik Walpurgis and his assistant Ovid Hajou. Since this season, Hajou is now co-coach in Darmstadt.

15 years at Mönchengladbach

Schmitz has studied sports and journalism and never played as a professional. As a coach he began for the youth of Borussia Mönchengladbach, was later under the then head coach Jupp Heynckes video analyst in the Scouting Department. At the lilies Schmitz was first athletic coach and game analyst in one person. He is now 99 percent employed in athletic.

Basically, the positions that are not exchanged during a coach change, he says. In Gladbach he worked for 15 years in this area. And in Darmstadt it already has some tradition that it is important for personnel continuity and does not equal all positions changes.

The week with the preparation for the Dresden game was a normal week for him. In my area, data collection and evaluation include. I look like the players perform in training and whether they have a good level. Also posed players or last the Corona cases I lead again. The only special feature: Because athletics are trained in blocks, the training in this area has been changed after the conference break.