Football of women – Champions League for Bavaria and Wolfsburg “three numbers too big”

Most recently, a beautiful strategy paper among those responsible for the women’s Bundesliga has circulated. Designed by the Portas agency, whose global director of women’s football, Patrick Massey, presented the visions of the future. You don’t just want to create a professional league and a first -class product, but also a platform for German clubs “to compete and win on European and global stage”. So it was in the target picture. If everyone is honest, claims and reality could not diverge a few weeks later.

Unexpectedly

With FC Bayern and VfL Wolfsburg, the flagship associations said goodbye to the quarter-finals of the Champions League without a sound. The masters from Munich were against Olympique Lyon (0: 2, 1: 4), the cup winners from VfL a day later against FC Barcelona (1: 4, 1: 6) without any chance. The double lesson must be a last wake -up call for a league that has missed the connection internationally.

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In the previous year, no club from the Bundesliga had come to the knockout round. Now defending champion Barcelona, ​​record winner Lyon and the two London clubs Chelsea and Arsenal make up among themselves, who travels to Lisbon on May 24th. German clubs have no place in the semi -finals. “The step in the top four is unreachable for us,” Wolfsburg’s coach Tommy Stroot admitted frankly. “We saw in both games that Barcelona has an incredibly individual quality. This shows what work we have in front of us. It is important to invest further, otherwise the distance is as it looks. ”One could not have formulated more clearly that the current squad at this top level is not competitive. In the meantime, Barça is even “three numbers too big,” says VfL player Rebecka Blomqvist with his world selection, including ex-Wolfsburg women Ewa Pajor, Carolin Hansen and Ingrid Engen.

Not a good address

The Wolfsburg factory club is now threatening the first title season in 13 years. In the DFB Cup, the series winners had already said goodbye in the quarter-finals, in the championship there are hardly six points behind FC Bayern with five outstanding games. The international farewell therefore hurts twice. Goal scorer Lineth Beerensteyn admitted honestly on Thursday evening in Estatia Johan Cruyff: »It is crap, I don’t want to lose 6-1. We have to get it out of our heads quickly. ”Foreign top players will think about whether German clubs are really the right address.

It is striking that top performers at the German national team also reached its limits. The deputy DFB captain Janina Minge found it like “a hat” after the first leg that she had been overflowed by the opponents so often. The Munich women also looked similar. Bayern coach Alexander Straus admitted Zerknirscht: “Such teams are mercilessly punish you if you make mistakes.” FC Bayern received a lesson in terms of speed, precision and effectiveness.

The best on the planet

Niko Arnautis from Eintracht Frankfurt does not want to paint so black. »Lyon and Barcelona are the best on this planet. These are other addresses, «said the longest-serving Bundesliga coach in a media round. “We have to see that we will stay with the German clubs for the next few years.” However, Eintracht, as the Bundesliga knitter, had already said goodbye to the Champions League last summer before the group phase started at the qualification tournament against Sporting Lisbon. And so the previous club 1. FFC Frankfurt remains the last German representative who won the Champions League in 2015-with a effort in the Berlin Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark against Paris St. Germain, which Chancellor Angela Merkel also looked at. At that time there were no strategy papers for women’s German football, the Bundesliga played at the forefront and even set the tone.