Biography of Nico Kovach

The story of Nico Kovac “Tactics for me does not matter. It is needed only when you lack something. If you play with your heart, then you don’t need tactics, it doesn’t matter, with two attackers, with three or one. ” When this says a football coach in a modern crashing gear and maps of the expected heads of the world, the manager who has accepted him to work should be alert.

Be sure to curl up accounts on social networks, explaining the game on screenshots, there will be pathos comments that this is an approach from X and in today's football not to survive. So in fact, it was, Twitter was crazy. But Nico Kovach knew what he was talking about. At the end of May, his Aintracht was able to escape from a hopeless situation. Kovach was not a favorite of the coaching race after the resignation of Armin Fe, but several people refused to voluntarily record a second Bundesliga in their resume.

Kovach had nothing to take risks, he never worked with the club on his own and agreed when he had long known the manager of Orlov Bruno Hubner called and did not even say hello, but said: “Will you go to us? When the final whistle sounded, the players who went crazy with happiness ran to the guest sector, and the cameras lost sight of Kovach. The head coach of the team, who had just completed an incredible breakthrough, did not join his players.

He saw Niclas Fullkrug sobs. He saw how Tim Laibold, a young defender who spent the first season at such a level, lies in the center of the field with his hands in the center of the field - and his fairy tale turned out with a sad end. Kovach went to the opponent’s players - to console them. About half a minute passed before Laibold succumbed to the words of the Croatian coach of the rivals and agreed to at least sit down.

He looked lost and hardly understood what the opponent’s coach tells about. With Turkey, we experienced the most severe defeat of all that can be experienced, ”said Kovach. Laibold grabbed his hand behind the coach and stood up. The Fullkrut stopped the natural children's hysteria. Only after that Kovach returned to the Aintracht holiday, and in October he received the Fair Play prize from the German football union for the nobility.

We are united by the fact that we are all people. I am not only a coach, but primarily a person, ”Croat said after receiving the award. Indeed, what is the tactic here?

The team sank into the area of ​​direct departure, the connection with the right to play in the joints was rapidly lost - the “Hoffenheim” with Julian Nagelsman began to show European cup football, and “Stuttgart”, which would be in the abyss after a month and a half, had not yet had time to crumble and walked in the middle of the table. The contract with Kovach was signed before the summer of the year, but he acted only in the First Bundesliga - the coach agreed to such an offensive condition.

The level of Frankfurt's hopelessness emphasized another fact: the club was in no hurry to look for Kovach housing, but this did not bother Nico - he rented a hotel room and lived in it. In the first training session, he told the players what they were unlikely to be expected to hear-instead of typical motivational words, Kovach tried to interpret them: life would not end if they fly out, but the main thing that they should do is to work out so that they themselves are not ashamed.

Even after from Bayer, he remained calm: “There is no need to be afraid of departure. I know from my own experience that fear is the worst that can happen to the athlete. ” At the end of April, Aintracht wins three matches, but no one has time to be happy - the leader and captain of the team Marco Russa find a tumor. RUS, already knowing about the results of the tests, asks him to put him in the first on the last round with Verder, and then for the first butt match against Nuremberg, but instead of helping the team, he scores on his own goal.

Stress of Kovacha develops into withdrawal, he and his brother Robert, whom NIA called an assistant, does not sleep for days. This is a problem of very many coaches, we live this 24 hours a day, ”he will say in the summer. Before the response in Nuremberg, Kovach did not have the strength even for a long installation. He went to the locker room and said two suggestions: “Guys, Aintracht has a summer story, you can become part.

Go and do it! Russ does not give up. Cancer could not interfere with the Aintracht defender Aintracht played with his heart, and the cameras that had lost sight of him after the final whistle of Kovach did not show his tears. Mato Kovach was a carpenter in a small town in the vicinity of Mostar and found a job at a construction site in Berlin - together with his wife Ivka, they decided that there may not be a different chance to leave depressive Yugoslavia.

But not only they decided so - from their country alone, more than half a million people moved from the Gastarbeters for a few years, the majority wanted to find a job in Berlin. Berlin began to grow in areas, most of which were migrants - mainly against the wall, and one of these areas was a Vedding. Small Street Turiner-Strasse on both sides is limited by parks.Even today, this is not the most pleasant place in Berlin, but among endless graffiti in the yards you will definitely find a couple of inscriptions in Turkish or Arabic.

Having left the Greek tavern, you will stumble upon a Yugoslav restaurant, and in the park, even a working day, there will be almost surely a group of young Turks, passionate about collective viewing of some video on a mobile phone. The house number 8 is on the Turiner Strasse and today it does not stand out-unchanged tags on the walls and a couple of pots with flowers on the second floor.

In the courtyard, a rubber -coating site - today they often play basketball here, which also quite clearly speaks of the Balkan origin of many local residents. Parents of the future Aintracht coach settled in this house, in one of the neighboring ones his future wife Christina lived, whom he met in childhood. Nico was born in the year, a little later he had brother Robert and Sister Nikolin, and just at that time the second wave of the crisis covered Germany.

This time, Yugoslav and Turkish migrants did not massively leave Germany, hoping that it would end as quickly as the recession of the year, but the crisis was more complicated. He touched on all the economic industries and lasted more than a year and a half, causing a shortage of jobs-half of the tourner-stock was left without sources of earnings, and there were more and more children on the streets.

Ivka Kovach got a job as a maid, and her eldest son, from three years old, began to kick everything that was somehow like a ball. When Nico went to school, life was shared by games after lessons at the school stadium and games at paved venues in the park on a tourner-stock. Parents, convinced Christians, managed to protect children from bad even despite the fact that both disappeared at work: “In fact, I owe parents to everyone that I have,” says Kovach.

One evening, a young guy was watching the game in the park. Nico finished playing and ran away home, and the observer did not dare to approach the child directly. The next day, everything was repeated, and the guy had to come for several evenings in a row before Nico came to pick up-because of his work he returned too late. The young man realized that this was his chance and ran to Mato Kovach: “Good evening!

Bring your son to the training "Rapid Vedding", he plays perfectly. " Mato Kovach looked incredulously at a summer guy who was not like a coach, but still asked the address of the training center, and the next day he also captured Robert from Nico and Nico. A young man who has been waiting for Kovach's father for so long was Andreas Meringue. You do not know anything about this man, but you know many whom he discovered.

Having finished his career at the age of 21, due to seven cracks in the leg, the meringue became a children's coach, and his hobbies was to watch talented children in Berlin yards-several years later, the meringues would find other brothers, Boatengs in the migrant region, and in just two German professional leagues, two dozen children found at the same time. After that meeting in the park, they did not see Kovach for almost 20 years, until one day the meringue came to gathering in Hamburg with a children's school of goalkeepers.

They were allowed to train the Hamburg, for which Kovach played then, and Croat recognized the profession of man who gave him the profession and ran from the other half of the field to hug him. A couple of weeks before that, Niko replaced Boban's bobban's bibs in his farewell match for the Croatian national team, against France at Saint-Denis-and not just replaced, but symbolically received a T-shirt with a “ten” from him.

Gertye Cellidorf President Otto Hyuna agreed to transition Nika to his team, and this was actually a pass to large clubs: “Little Gerta” either handed over players to a large, city “Hertha”, or sold them to other professional teams, as it was in the case of Christian Tsig, with whom Kovach moved to Zelendorf immediately. Nico was evaluated a little more cautious-he only saw the future stars in him and his brother: "They were completely obsessed, trained three to four times a day." Using the connections in the Berlin football alliance and the general confusion in the city after the wall of the wall, Hyon pushed Niko to the second team of the big "Hertha".

In July, Hyon was 90 years old, but Croat does not forget about him the whole career. For Kovach, such gratitude remains the norm: “Life is not a one -way street. They gave me Christian education, empathy is an important thing for me. We must return to the forefront that our grandfathers and great -grandfathers lived. I am not ultra -conservative, but it is important to remember the basic values, to tell people “good afternoon”, “thank you”, “please” and “goodbye” - is it difficult to at least be polite?

Kovach was grateful to Herte. In fact, he quickly grew out the level of the team, sleepily rolling from the second Bundesliga to the first and back, and even lingered too much in it, but leaving for Leverkuzen, he promised that he would return. He became a favorite player of a slightly indifferent Berlin public, the “boy from Vedding” loved everything, and he kept his promise.Kovach returned to Gerthu in 32 and planned to end his career in Berlin, but the management was preoccupied with the extension of the contracts of the Brazilian stars and the search for new Latin American.

74 thousand tickets were sold to the last home match in the Berlin career of Kovac, although in the previous round “Hertha” lost to Bayer, and there were not 50 thousand people in the stands. Croatus went out in the starting lineup, and Hertha with Hamburg played the best match of the season. The guests went forward twice, during the score, Gertha remained in the minority after removing Tsek for the simulation, and a few minutes later Marselino earned a penalty and performed the feed.

Kovach looked up from the guardian and jumped forward with his eyes closed, and when he landed, the score was already - Croat flew to the fan Ostkurve. This goal became victorious, and after the game Kovach was not let go of the locker room for almost half an hour. It will be very difficult for me to leave here. ” Three days later, he told Christine that it was necessary to collect things - the Kovach family made the first and, possibly, the last real move in life.

The daughter of Laura was five years old, soon she had to go to school. It was necessary to make a decision on the future when a call from Salzburg received. I moved to Frankfurt alone, because my daughter will finish school in the next three years, and in our work you don’t know where you will even be the next day. ” From the beginning of March to the end of May, a family who has been living in Salzburg has been in Salzburg for 10 years, Nico had never seen.

This is probably why he did not want to become a coach. Having left Berlin for the first time, he was in Bayer, and in Hamburg, and in Bavaria, he found himself between the main composition and a bench, which gave Gunther Netzer a reason to say that "we are dealing with the most underestimated player in modern Bundesliga." In Leverkuzen, Junior Bayano from Bremen in the first match loaded Kovach with his elbow on his neck so that he had to do an X-ray due to suspicion of a fracture-while Nico was treated, Bayer managed to form, and Croat for three years became the best M player in the league.

In Hamburg, for some time he was distracted by his mother’s disease. In the match with Aintracht, Kovach scored, after which he covered his face with his hands to hide tears - the journalists instantly suggested that Nico called such emotions in the morning of that day, Christophe Daum's contract with the German team. Dauma, who did not give Kovach fully revealed at the base of Bayer, convicted of cocaine use, but Croat was not torn to the emotions-a few hours before the match his mother was operated on in Berlin, and later Kovach admits that he was not ready to play psychologically.

For Kovach-trainer, this is an important memory-today he wants his players to be open with him: "If someone is tired or cannot play for personal reasons, he must tell me about it." In the spring of the year, “Bavaria” came to Niko, but “Hamburg” in a categorical form refused Munich. For Kovach, Bavaria was a dream - he ran in a red T -shirt with a mouse on his back according to the hard fields of the Vedding and represented himself Rummenigga.

A year later, Hamburg could no longer hold the most clogging central midfielder of the League, and Kovach was not afraid of competition for the place of Bavaria.