Bundesliga: Grazer gradually carries its hopes

For days, there has been speculation about the appointment of former storm professionals to Heiko Vogel. Gradually, it was obvious that the task had more than irritated him. "Sturm Graz is always at the right time with me," he said. For him, this coaching position is "the highest goal in Austria". Of course, this goes hand in hand with a great responsibility.

The 47-year-old has repeatedly stressed the importance of sport in Altach on 25 November. "We really want to win the first game, everyone can count, but I do not want to think about what will happen one day, I want to focus on the first game," said Mählich looking at the table. He sees the storm with generally more quality, as a performance statement. Even in recent weeks it has seemed "maybe a little closer" to the storm, also revealed the previous badyst of ORF TV.

The coaching team remains unchanged

Mählich will lead his first training in the event of a storm. Stefan Hierländer and Peter Zulj will be absent. With both sought Mählich already Sunday the conversation. His game ideas, he would say to his new team first, he said on a related topic. Nothing will change in the coaching team. Joachim Standfest and Günther Neukirchner remain badistant coaches, goalkeeper Stefan Loch and coach Walter Niederkofler.

With the storm makers, the main subject was that a man back who had already responded to the expectations in an active way. "After 15 years of hard working bees, our fighting pig is back in Graz," said President Christian Jauk in his inaugural statement. Storm had made a decision that had not been made in the last 26 years, said the club boss referring to the coaches history.

Since then, or the involvement of Robert Pflug (1991-1992), the storm has no longer had Austrian coach. Serbo-Austrian bi-citizen Michael Petrovic (2003-2006) apparently did not count as such.

"Trust and pbadion"

With the signing of the contract, gradually, there is a chance that the storm will return where we want it, "said Jauk.In discussions, the former midfielder found the right words. was emotionally convinced. This is Roman's great strength. "I have a big team doing bad things right now.

Günter Kreissl said that Mählich's personality in looking for a coach was "foremost". "Storm is synonymous with fighting spirit, pbadion and realism, and as a player, Roman battled big names with confidence and pbadion," said the Sport CEO. Through his expert work in television, he has also proven himself in communication. At the same time, Kreissl stressed that the basis of the expertise was of course. Gradually know the league and the storm and have in Wiener Neustadt "clearly outperformed".

Little by little, I did not want to let myself go in the past. "This novel Mählich certainly changed somehow to the Millennium novel," he stressed, immediately stressing: "But the attitude of winning matches has not changed. to promise that. "