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Without a break we continue. I must now quickly to the stadium, the first game starts right.

On the way through the city center, the Navi in ​​the tunnel becomes disoriented. We turn from wrong and know for the area around the main station now very good.

Arriving at the stadium Katrin Bartels tried to get my accreditation. No one goes to the telephone and the national anthems have been playing. But I'm on time on site, begins as it.

Some viewers are also there, more to come later. At the entrance of Stockholm, the traffic control center was also advertised for the World Cup on the signs. In the city itself, however, we see less of it.

USA gets the ball. You start very nervous. Austria can compete in the first two drives well. But then US strikes with athletics. Short screen passes and away you go. The United States is damn fast, large, athletic and dizipliniert. And unfortunately, they act damn arrogant. She quickly lead 19:0 in the first quarter at the end of it 63:0 for the favorites. A bit high for fighting bravely Austrians. With two I talk in the evening at the hotel yet. They were very creased, a bit more they had been hoping for. But the physical superiority of the Americans was clearly. Since it has already pretty gerummst.

After PK Katrin Bartels has found a pub for us. Football Germany-England. The classic. A great game. If football ever so would, who knows if I will still not the round ball would chase. But it's not. While we sit, come more and more to. All fans of the German team. A Swedish Päarchen, Exchange students from Germany. It forms a large group. 4:1 was, for a game. Immediately I complain no more about the Wembley goal, as it is one to one between England and us. With the final whistle, I go to the stadium again, for here now play our opponents Sweden and Canada. Canada has a slight advantage. The Swedes are very small. A bit of it reminds students Tackle Football and or Frodo from Lord of the Rings. But they are quick and committed. The audience roars the team forward. great atmosphere. Shortly before the end of the third Quarters it is thrilling. The Defense of Canada captured a ball and carries it to 12:0 back. But Sweden counters with Kickoffreturn touchdown. 12:6. Sweden fightet really hard. But in the end saves Canada with an interception the game and wins his opener. Easy is not a game at the World Cup, but both opponents are feasible. The sentence could also come from Waldis World Cup club 😉

After the game, another PK. Again, I'm sitting alone in front of the coaches and players. Laureen from the IFAF leads confidently through the press conference. Allso super, but unfortunately not a single journalist on site. Not even in the Sweden game. Sad. The Football World Cup does not take this as an excuse, because Sweden yes is not it. IFAF rewinds the entire PR stuff from, only to journalists no one has thought. On demand Laureen not know even, as the invitations were running locally. Probably no one has bothered drum. This is a pity, because the rest of the World Cup is super great. So far, everything works, locally the organization is great, There are regular shuttle buses. Perfect. Only when the press unfortunately it still Harpert.

I'm going back with Team Canada. You quickly this week. Everything nice and relaxed here very. For 20 Minutes, the German vanguard sets times to the water and enjoy the hotel, the look and the rising moon.

So relaxed, it is then also not. Back in the room goes again to work. write an article, bring laptop online, Add videos, Images on laptop, etc…

I am falling asleep. The 48 Hour day comes to an end. Good night.

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The 48-hour day is over. Immediately after training on Saturday I drove to Stockholm with Thorsten Kunert in the equipment truck. That was stress.

First of all, we had to make a detour to Berlin. The story with the pants. The details will come later, only that much: Thomas Winter sent another set of pants from the national team's pool with ICE Express from Hamburg to Berlin. We had to pick it up, although the navigation system already calculated that we were short on time. So let's cucumber through Berlin. We flew through Mecklenburg -Vorpommern for it, Foot on the gas and always at the limit. It comes as it comes, the ferry was of course delayed and we could wait in Sassnitz. No matter, The main thing is on board. Almost four hours crossing from 23:00 to 3:00. I also closed my eyes for an hour somewhere on an uncomfortable seat. And kept looking at the screen, the one without sound, but brought a film with Robert Redford with Swedish subtitles.

The view from the deck was fantastic. Behind us the full moon, which was reflected in the sea and before us a portent of the midnight sun. The sky showed a twilight in the north with great colors for hours. But since it was freezing cold on deck, straight back in.

From Trelleborg it is 600km to Stockholm. Through the night, which was no longer at half past three, we drove north. And fought against sleep. Thorsten had threatened me before the trip: Because I once called him curmudgeon on the blog, should I suffer on the journey and then fly out of the car in Sweden. But we got along well and luckily he drove most of the route, because my eyes kept falling shut.

One 10:30 we were in Stockholm on time. Katrin Bartels received us. She had already organized the most important things. First the jerseys were put in the washing machine. We had to look for them first. But when searching, you quickly come into contact. Team Canada players helped us out. Later I showed Austria the flat there.

Then we had to unload the bus. I do not know, how many times i have run. But I know, that we have a hell of a lot with us. Really much. We're also the only team with an equipment room. Thorsten has a storage room, half full of old furniture, to get. Within a few hours she was unrecognizable. Here is his realm in the basement now. We have a lot more with us than our opponents anyway. We are the only ones to have our own doctor with us.

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Der dritte und letzte Tag in Strausberg geht seinem Ende zu und ich bin geschafft. Die zwei täglichen Trainingseinheiten in der prallen Sonne haben mich einfach dahingerafft. Nicht nur dass der erste Tag mit Anreise, Theoriestunden, Trainingseinheiten und Videoanalysen für mich knappe 13 Stunden gedauert hat, am zweiten und dritten Tag ging es nicht minder flott weiter.

Nachdem am Freitag das praktische Training noch ein wenig chaotisch war, weil sich alle wieder in ihre Positionen und Teams finden und auch die Spielzüge wieder neu aufeinander abgestimmt werden mussten, ging es wieder mit frischem Elan und neuer Motivation wieder auf das glühende Kunstrasenfeld.

Vom Training schubbern regelmäßig noch diverse Granulatbrocken in Schuhen und anderen Ausrüstungsgegenständen, aber das hindert niemanden daran auf allen Spielpositionen Gas zu geben.

Ich habe hier in Strausberg viel gelacht, habe auch einmal, ein langer Tag in Sonne auf dem Trainingsfeld kann einen auch schon mal an die Leistungsgrenzen bringen, kurz nach einem besonders ordentlichen Block meiner Mitspielerin Sarah ein paar Tränchen vergossen. Aber was soll es, die blauen Flecken werden hier wie alte Kriegsnarben verglichen und bestaunt. Ich muss auch noch daran denken, mich bei meinem Defense-Line-Coach für seine Geduld zu bedanken…

Mein Defense-Line-Coach Markus Grässer und der Defense-Coordinator Daniel Koch geben ihr Bestes uns auf den kommenden ersten Gegner Schweden einzustellen. Die WM in Schweden hat bereits heute begonnen, unser erstes Spiel wird am Dienstag sein. Videoanlaysen, Walk-Throughs und Individuals, abgestimmt auf die verschiedenen Positionen im Feld, haben das einzige Ziel das Team als eins arbeiten zu lassen, um abgestimmt auf die Gastgeber vorbereitet zu sein.

Den heutigen Abend im Camp haben wir mit Packen verbracht. Wir haben noch diverse Kleidungsstücke erhalten, die uns als Mitglieder der Deutschen Nationalmannschaft ausweisen, aber damit hat uns das Komitee zugleich einen Gefallen getan und gleichzeitig so manche der Mädels nahe an einen Pack-Kollaps gebracht. Wie bereits bekannt, sind nur 20 Kg im Gepäck erlaubt und so sah man heute Abend diverse Mädchen und Frauen hektisch nach den Federwaagen für das Gepäck suchen. Wie nur alles in die Taschen packen? Was wird hier gelassen? Heute Abend kann keiner verleugnen, dass wir wirklich Mädchen sind…

Langsam wird es ruhig auf den Fluren und auch ich werde mich gleich schnellstmöglich in die Federn begeben. Mein Körper wird es mir danken. Jetzt ist es gleich 12 Uhr nachts und Frühstück wird morgen früh um sechs sein, damit wir uns gegen 7 Uhr auf den Weg zum Flughafen gen Stockholm machen können. Natürlich in unseren Deutschland-Trainingsanzügen.

Also werde ich nun meine restlichen Dinge zusammenklauben und auf den Tisch für morgen legen, This brings me to the bus to the airport afloat out of bed and early.

Tomorrow night I'll be in Sweden and Tuesday tread my first game on the road to World Cup. I can still hardly believe.

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The tempo in training is faster. Preparing for Sweden begins.

The coaches pulling tempo and the team has been awarded. It's fun to watch. Today, the press was there and the team trained straight with the game jerseys. The jerseys and pants were now the number one issue. Especially with the pants not all fit as desired. Some were not purely, the other matched twice pure. Sometimes the size M was smaller than S. Chaos at lunchtime. Now in training it has settled some. A solution is in sight, but more on that later.

For press event was TV, Radio, local press and the Huddle. Jörn Maier and Daniel Koch stood to answer questions in a relaxed atmosphere.

For me now, the departure is at. Next time I'll call from Sweden. Together with Thorsten Kunert go ichdas Equipment to Stockholm and movies tomorrow then the first two encounters. Departure is at 17:30, one 22:30 we take the ferry from Sassnitz and we still dannhaben 600 km from Trelleborg to Stockholm before us. In the morning we will then arrive. Katrin Bartels as Chef de mission is flown today and participates in the Technical Meeting. Thorsten honks, I have to go…..

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The first training is done. The first two theory units too.

Conclusion: There is much to do. Although a lot got stuck and we can build on the Silberborn stand, there is still much to be done. Some things didn't look bad on offense. But we're only just beginning on the way to the World Cup. Now it's time to work hard. Make the fire burn. the right swing is still missing. But that will come, I'm sure.

Tonight there was a little barbecue party. Thorsten as the grill master took care of the meat on the plate.

I'll stop now and join the people around the campfire. This fire is already blazing today. Enough for the first day…

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It's finally starting.

Tonight, my computer or the mail in recent weeks has converted and copied from the desktop to my laptop.

the night was early in the morning to 5:00 PM to end. The alarm clock rings as loud, as if to wake the whole street. At the main station in Frankfurt we meet the four girls Mainz. Actually only used just three, because Michelle Schaffer comes at the last minute. to have booked together without, We're in the same Wagon, only one row away from each other. Since the train is empty, flee the other passengers and let the eight seats around the two tables. It is much told and laughed. Somewhere behind Fulda the Playbook is taken out and learned. One side is with euro coins and rings an offense. Sonja Meurer has a cheat sheet for everything. Really for everything. Rebecca Brown calls the Defense Formation of copper money and Birgit swing playing the line stunts and lightning. The conductor looks pretty stupid, as he passes. I also look a bit surprised as a series on sudden Svenja Konoawalczyk stands before me. The Kielerin works yes in Heidelberg and was sitting all the time on the train. Only with their sleep mask, I did not recognize.

With 10 Minutes late we arrive in Berlin and have to take a commuter train later. But Thorsten picks us up with the car at the station. choose the girls as an alternative to running the bed of the Sprinters. During the five minutes to the Sportpark the national anthem sounds from the dark cargo hold. In a good mood we arrive.

Here everything is perfectly prepared. Christiane Lang comb has already been threw the coffee machine in Orga meeting room. are in our room plastic bag with new clothes. Toll, how much has been put on the legs. Thanks to donations, the packet is a T-shirt was, a cap, adds a key chain and a Bottle. The latter in particular is useful in this weather. Everyone carries his bottle around with them, so that enough water is drunk. And of course, each bottle was immediately labeled with the name. Here you feel welcome, Now the work can begin

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Daniel Koch: “Don't underestimate Sweden, USA not so far away and final is possible!“

As a defense coordinator, Daniel Koch has one of the three key roles in the coaching staff of the new German women's national team. After graduating from Humboldt High School in Ulm, he studied at Ulm University of Applied Sciences / Neu-Ulm and earned the degree of a graduate industrial engineer (FH). Meanwhile, he also looks back on ten years of experience as a trainer and, of course, has the AFVD Trainer A license. Koch has also acted as a referee for a long time and of course sees this as an advantage, because you cannot know enough about football rules as a coach. As an adolescent, he was selected as an active player in the Bayern selection and played for various men's teams, most recently at the Franken Knights in GFL2 Süd.

Jörg Schlueter talked to him about his personal women's football World Cup expectations.

Football-aktuell.de: Do you already have the concept for the upcoming Strausberg Camp ready?? What else will they be taught there??

D. Koch: We will primarily watch this video of the international match Sweden-Finland and further deepen what we have learned in the Silberborn Camp. This also applies to the playbook. We also want to focus specifically on the Swedish national team, since they'll be our first opponent and I don't think so either, that we should underestimate Sweden.

Football-aktuell.de: How does a defensive coach prepare for opponents?, that cannot be analyzed in advance?

D. Koch: As already known, we have league game records from Canada and the USA. We know the names of the players in the squad and focus primarily on the game systems of the open team and look first, whether the opponent runs more or prefers the passing game. I have already looked at the material together with our offense coordinator Jörn Maier and we have analyzed, for example, that Sweden prefers two formations. On the one hand, they are running-heavy and have a mobile quarterback, who also often fakes plays. On the other hand, their two wide receivers are very large (each approx. 190cm) and can use play-action moves. Our material is already very useful for preparing for Sweden. Depending on the course of the tournament, we will prepare for other opponents with the fresh video material on site. In doing so, we will generally focus more on the system and the moves, than prepare for individual players.

Football-aktuell.de: Is more than third place possible for Germany? Your tip for the World Cup?

D. Koch: I think so, that the performance gap and the performance density between the six teams is not so great. The US is not that far away, as some experts suspect in the run-up to the World Cup. I would even predict, that participation in the finals would be possible for us.

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Man sollte nie etwas glauben, was man nicht selber probiert hat. Als Tight End der Darmstadt Diamonds hatte ich die Möglichkeit, mich von der Qualität der drei süddeutschen Nationalmannschafts-Coaches persönlich zu überzeugen.

Markus Gräßer(Defense Line Rhein-NeckarBandits)

Markus ist in der Nationalmannschaft genauso wie im Verein fürdie Defense Line zuständig. Und die hat uns ganz schön zu schaffen gemacht. Besonders beide Defense Ends wirkten gut gecoacht und haben ein super Spiel gemacht. Auch derDefense Tackle #54 machte uns viele Plays kaputt. Apropos kaputt. Ich persönlich habe in einem Spiel selten so viele blaue Flecken eingesteckt wie gegen die Bandits.

Facemask verbogen!

Das habe ich auch noch nie erlebt. Mein Facemask hat sich im Spiel so verbogen, dass ich mir ein Neues kaufen muss. Ich kam mir vor als hätte ich so ein altes Single-Bar Facemask wie es Kicker noch vor 15 Jahren in der NFL trugen. Da passte deutlich mehr als eine Faust durch, was ich auch zu spüren bekam. Lange Zeit dominierten beide Defense-Reihen das Spiel, am Ende entschied ein wildes Offense Feuerwerk innerhalb der letzten zwei Minuten das Spiel. Wir gingen zweimal in Führung, um dann doch mit 28:24 zu verlieren.

Wenn Markus es schafft, unsere Defense Line in der Nationalmannschaft genauso einzustellen wie die der Bandits, dann wird es für unsere Gegner ein langes Turnier.

Daniel Koch (Defense Line Franken Knights)

Daniel Koch ist hauptsächlich Defense Coordinator im Jugend Team und coacht daneben die Defense Line im GFL 2 Team der Knights. Den Test konnte ich leider altersbedingt nur im GFL2 Team vornehmen, aber diesmal als Offense Line Spieler. Direkt mittendrin also. Zahlenmäßig waren uns die Jungs schon deutlich überlegen. Elf Defense-Line Spieler standen gerade mal zwei etatmäßigen O-Liner gegenüber, aufgefüllt durchDefense Line Spieler und einem Tight End. Elf Spieler auf einer Position bedeutet auf jeden Fall schon mal ein vernünftiges Training. Denn bei elf Spielern bekommen viele nicht so viel Spielzeit wie sie sich wünschen. Wenn sie dennoch am Spieltag bereit stehen, zeugt das von der Qualität der Coaches. Denn nur wenn man das Gefühl hat auch im Training was zu lernen, sich weiter zu entwickeln und dabei Spaß hat, ist ein Spieler auch mit weniger Spielzeit zufrieden. Über die Qualität der Spieler braucht man kein Wort verlieren. Franken Knights haben immer sehr athletische Spieler, technisch gut gecoacht und schnell. Das war auch diesmal so.

Daniel Koch übernahm gegen uns den Job in der “Skybox” und funkte seine Erkenntnisse in die Teamzone. Leider konnte ich den Funkverkehr nicht abhören (das hätte uns bestimmt geholfen) aber im Ergebnis war Franken stets gut gegen uns aufgestellt. Wir konnten zwar den Ball erfolgreich bewegen, aber am Ende reichte es nur für einen Score.

Conny Jäckel (Wide Receiver DarmstadtDiamonds)

Dieser Test ist der schwierigste und einfachste zugleich. Schliesslich hatte ich mehr als genug Gelegenheit Conny beim Coaching zu beobachten. Doch den eigenen Coach und die eigene Lebensgefährtin zu beurteilen kann nie objektiv sein. Fakt ist, dass sie viel Zeit in die Vorbereitung investiert. Jede Übung wird geplant, getestet und umgesetzt. Ständig diskutieren wir über die Leistung der Spieler, analysieren die Videos und arbeiten an der Weiterentwicklung für unser Team. Die Diskussionen sind auch für mich immer sehr lehrreich. So lerne ich auf Running Back und Wide Receiver viel dazu, habe aber zum Glück noch ein paar Vorteile auf den anderen Positionen. Conny hat bewiesen, dass sie in der GFL2 ihren Mann stehen kann und wird dies auch in der Nationalmannschaft tun.

Fazit des Test

Absolut positiv. Ich glaube, wir haben die richtigen Coaches für die Weltmeisterschaft. Dieser Eindruck aus dem Trainingslager hat sich jetzt mit dem Test verfestigt. Und die Coaches sind nicht nur fachlich sehr gut, sondern auch menschlich. Es hat viel Spass gemacht sich mit Ihnen nach dem Spiel zu unterhalten. Die Weltmeisterschaft kann kommen.

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.. feels her well?

On Saturday the last game with their team. cut. Darmstadt Diamonds are for the next 14 Days packed to the side. From now on football only revolves around the national team. The whole thinking is geared to Stockholm.

The tension is palpable scho detulich. It becomes more difficult, to focus on everyday things.

Once the equipment. We also suffer from the Staff under the 20kg rule: Laptop, Stands, hard drives, Photo apparatus, Camera, Charger. The technology list is long. be everything must be checked. install updates, control software. Fortunately, I have Thursday free, make the last adjustments. I can all the documents, transfer messages and information on the laptop. I have all the information, Login information and technology, to cultivate the homepages, PR to write messages and send? Ja, the list should be complete. The list of addresses of journalists? Ja, is already there. But do not take too much paper, Security is difficult!!!

Oops. What's this? Okay tonight I have a meeting for the European Championship 2010 in Frankfurt. This is only just 30 days out. switch briefly as again. But starting tomorrow, we go only to the WWC 2010.

Weekend in Rothenburg ob der Tauber we had the opportunity, time to stroll through the old town before briefly. Here there is not only during the World Cup a huge number of fan items in black, red and gold. Incredible. Many things on the edge of bad taste, but some also looked really good. But to buy I could but then not bring. Zum Glück, because the 20kg rule must not be ignored.

Now is the last talk time. Perhaps we can even convince someone to come or Pressekeonferenz about the WWC 2010 to write. I can not hear it anymore: “We just have World Cup”, “At present it is not so good”. I press Germany fingers crossed. I really wish the team, that they beat Ghana tomorrow. At least at that I wish to 99%. The other percentage dreams of, that on Thursday's fifteen editors with me, sign up for the PK and information from the WWC 2010 to ask, because they do not know, how to fill the front pages on Friday.

It could go slowly…

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