DFB-Teammannager Oliver Bierhoff speaks to combine professional sports and school with each other. Cancel the plan of Julian Draxler school did he "regrets".
Berlin (SID) - national team manager Oliver Bierhoff sees the task in the professional football also, school and work. Asked on the first expressed intention of Schalke's exceptional talent Julian Draxler, to cancel the school, the former German captain in the world on Sunday interview said: "I have regretted that." Because it should be in my opinion the right to reconcile both things. "Because there are enough top athletes from other branches, who also still work."
You should always support a sportsman, regarding school or also study part-time. Bierhoff: "because this is also a kind of character training." The EM hero of 1996 Hagen studied even 13 years during his playing career at the Open University and graduated as a graduate in Commerce.
Finished Hichhack to Draxler
The back to Draxlers schooling is however now finished. The 17-year-old midfielder from the runner-up visited Schalke 04 since February the Berger Feld comprehensive school not far from the arena of Vizemeisters. S04-trainer and Manager Felix Magath had sparked a controversial debate with the decision to leave, with the agreement take Draxler whose parents from the school. Among other things the player Manuel Neuer and Mesut Ozil had visited before Draxler the Berger Feld comprehensive school.
Bierhoff also said the risk to fall after the end of the career into a hole: "The danger is clear." Because I do believe that it is a football player in a very special world. "You live for about 15 years as under a Bell." At some point everything was over but. "And it is a major challenge to deal with and newly arrange everything," said Bierhoff.