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Handball mission failure: VfL Lübeck-Schwartau broadcasts its youth A
No gamers, no coaches, no success: VfL Lübeck-Schwartau has given up on its youth A.
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Lübeck. New coaches, new ideas, new companions – that is how VfL Bad Schwartau has reworked itself in autumn 2020 to advertise aggressive handball. The subsequent step was taken lower than ten months later. The males’s workforce from A to C approached the boys’s workforce below the identify VfL Lübeck-Schwartau as a non-profit youth aggressive sports activities GmbH during which the financial sponsor of the second division membership holds an 85 p.c stake. “We wish to convey younger gamers nearer to the Bundesliga workforce. With the identify and the game,” defined VfL boss Daniel Pankofer, who has since shared the management of the gGmbh with youth coordinator Gerrit Klaasen. Klaasen set an bold purpose: “We wish to be the coaching membership within the space we was once.”
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Only eight A-Youth gamers stay
But VfL is presently aloof from its declare. “A vital interval of youth work” (Pankofer) has cracks. When it involves youth work, MTV Lübeck has lengthy been the area’s primary amongst males. Youth A, the boys’s home construction within the second division, has been enjoying within the Oberliga because the Bundesliga was relegated in 2020. The workforce was even kicked out of the sport. Background: Three gamers beforehand, two parted methods in the course of the season. Youth A misplaced all video games. At the top of the 12 months, coaches Stephan Schlegel and Gordon Keys additionally resigned and have been employed by the boys’s state league membership ATSV Stockelsdorf. No gamers, no coaches, no success. Later, mother and father complained that there have been typically solely two doable research classes as an alternative of 4, and that further choices weren’t taken. “Some issues did not go properly right here,” Pankofer admits. Klaasen provides: “We did not wish to proceed with solely eight gamers.” That’s why he took away the predator and refused to fill the youth of B. “It’s a pity,” says Klaasen, “however we nonetheless have an opportunity to qualify for the Oberliga within the new season.”
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August 2021: VfL head Daniel Pankofer (from left), Peter Repp and Thomas Drogemüller from VfL Bad Schwartau and youth coordinator Gerrit Klaasen current the brand new aggressive youth sports activities gGmbh mission.
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Club 111: “It’s disappointing”
Thomas Nawrocki, chairman of Klubs 111, the area’s largest sports activities enterprise community, lamented the top of A’s youth: “It’s a blow to our neck, utterly incomprehensible.” Euro grew to become the most important sponsor of VfL youth. 30,000 euros have been invested in 2021 in comparison with 10,000 euros final 12 months. Nawrocki: “The result’s enjoyable. After all, promotion of younger skills is essential for us as a membership.”
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However, Pankofer doesn’t contemplate this a failure. “It’s an image we do not like and it hurts. But we’re transferring ahead professionally and there are numerous constructive indicators for the longer term.” A brand new full-time youth coordinator might be launched shortly. “It would not work that manner anymore,” says Pankofer, including: “We’ve obtained an excellent placement from the youth of Group B, there are sufficient good coaches, together with the athletics coach. It appears actually good for subsequent season.” In addition, as a associate of Viactiv (medical insurance), further tasks equivalent to diet counseling and psychological help have been launched. “There’s rather a lot occurring proper now,” Pankofer mentioned. We’re right here, we’re on the ball.”