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Pretty cold hit me and my team-mates Steffi and Miri into Silberborn. After a short detour via Holzminden and the local supermarket, we got hold of a parking space right outside the door. Gradually, other players from different teams arrived. Some I knew very well (Players in the 1. Party), some I did not know (Players in the 2. Party). The acquaintances greeted each other with hugs and chatter went straight off. When women come together… :-).

After the performance sports director has arrived, it was about time 10 Pm for check-in. In the order of logging the rooms were occupied. I shared a room with Steffi (BKL) and Sandra and Anja (both Dresden). Steffi must have felt pretty sure, with so many liners in a room ;-).

A short time later it was the first theory session on the program, separately for offense and defense. I was allowed to attend the Defense Theory.
According to the theory, we went with Upper pads out already. As nice as the weather in the morning, too bad it was the afternoon. Regen, Thunder and lightning shortened first practice, so it followed right back to the theoretical went. Even after dinner was not an end to the theory. Slowly, the fatigue was spreading and the capacity faded by the minute. Finally, I think it was so half 10, we were allowed to bed. I was following immediately :-).

Next morning: theory, Walktrough, Full Pads Training. It was still raining, so that the “race” was no longer recognizable as such. mud, Mud and mud again. If you do not stuck, slipped one from. Naja, the conditions were the same for all yes. So slowly turned me with a sense one, I did not know before. I had good competition on my Positon and true. I had to give everything and show, I could. Every word the coach was analyzed and scrutinized in the head: “What he means now so?” “Was that good or bad?”. With this feeling I went to sleep every night. So that's it, when your own performance is evaluated outside of their own team of neutral Coaches. Oh man… so I had to cope first. Nevertheless, the fun in the scrimmages was not neglected.

Saturday night was there yet surprisingly one meetings with the Postioncoaches. I was extremely uneasy. What to expect? What will he tell me? Am I good, I have to prove the next day again. Am I bad, I have to prove myself and am also possibly. inhibited by the criticism. That is hard. On Sunday, the last day there was the final-Scrimmage. There, too, one was reminded again, that this is the last chance here to prove themselves.
With each error, I have committed, the feeling was worse. “Is this the end?” On the other hand the fun comes out then but, the Football for me is yes. So I played free of the liver, by instinct. To 36 Plays the end of the camp was then announced. Now everything is done, Now nothing can be more change. The coaches have decided or will decide still in subsequent Coaches Meeting.

Conclusion: It was a new experience to train with so many good Spielerinnnen together. It was to compete against to see a new experience. And it was also a new experience, like football Germany brings together and how friendly the players were each other. A huge compliment goes to the Orga and Staff Team. Christiane had always turn to them an open ear and you could with any concerns. You had to worry about anything, it was all taken care of. I felt very well attended. Thank you very much.

PS: I'm going crazy and I look forward with all the good players together to stand on the field. 🙂

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Was für ein trauriger Morgen. Es regnet. Nicht ein bisschen, sondern ständig. Dazu hat man uns allen über Nacht eine Stunde geklaut. Einge haben abends zusätzlich die eine oder andere Stunde verschenkt, weil sie noch nicht einschlafen konnten.

Heute ist der große Tag der Entscheidung. Wer heute alles gibt und das neu Gelernte umsetzt, kann die Entscheidung der Coaches noch beeinflußen. Das Einzige, das jetzt schon feststeht, ist: Heute abend wird eine Entscheidung getroffen.

Der Vormittag steht ganz im Zeichen von Coach Trabi. Zuerst sind wieder einmal Special Teams gefragt. Mittlerweile hat der Regen aufgehört. Jetzt stehen verschiedene Positionsgruppen mit ihren Walkthru oder leichten Technik-Übungen auf dem Programm. Für den Rest bedeutet das eine Verschnaufpause.

Nach dem Essen steht das abschliessende Scrimmage an. Die letzten 36 Spielzüge im Camp. Die Coaches planen ganz genau, welche Spielzüge sie von welchem Spieler nochmal sehen wollen. Alle Quarterbacks bekommen eine Chance. Bei den Running Backs wird Suse Erdmann geschont. Sie steht als eine der wenigen bereits fest im Kader für Stockholm. Die Restlichen bekommen ihre Bewährungsprobe.Im Scrimmage erweist sich die Deutsche Defense als sehr stark und kann Vorteile für sich verbuchen. Das beruhigt, wenn man sich in Schweden später auf die Defense verlassen kann.

Nach dem Scrimmage folgt die große Verabschiedung. Es gibt ein Teamfoto, sowie Gruppenfotos. Die Portraits hatten wir ja schon gestern gemacht. Zum Glück, denn einige Spielerinnen kann man vor lauter Matsch kaum noch erkennen.

Nun folgt das große Aufräumen. Das ganze Equipment muss wieder im LKW verstaut werden. Die dreckigen Jerseys werden eingesammelt. Viele Kisten werden geschleppt.

Die Coaches treffen sich mit der Leistungssportdirektorin Christiane Langkamm im Meetingraum. Die schwere Entscheidung steht an. Jeder Postion-Coach gibt seine Reihenfolge der Spielerinnen bekannt. Besonders bei den Wackel-Kandidaten werden Vor- und Nachteile ausführlich erläutert und zusammen mit dem zuständigen Coordinator und den anderen Coaches diskutiert. Auch Coach Trabi, zuständig für die Special Teams, kommt immer wieder zu Wort, denn manchmal sind die Special Teams das Zünglein an der Waage.

Für mich, der die meiste Zeit des Trainings nur durch den Sucher des Fotoapparates oder Videokamera gesehen hat und sich nicht jede Position genau angeschaut hat, sind einige Entscheidungen überraschend. Das Traurige an Auswahlmannschaften ist manchmal die Auswahl. Einige Gesichter kennt man schon seit Jahren, andere hat man gerade kennengelernt. Ich habe in den letzten Tagen viele nette und sympathische Spielerinnen kennengelernt. So wie man generell sagen muss, dass die Stimmung im Camp sehr gut war.

In Strausberg werden aber viele davon nicht dabei sein können. Es muss auf 45 Spielerinnen reduziert werden. Die Erklärungen der Coaches sind überzeugend und wir sind sicher, die Spielerinnen ausgewählt zu haben, die in Stockholm den größtmöglichen Erfolg versprechen.

Nach dem Meeting werden die Sachen gepackt. Zusammen mit dem Equipment-Fahrzeug sind wir die letzten vor Ort. Es endet wie es begann. Mit Sonnenschein und einer leeren Jugendherberge, die in den letzten Tagen einige der weltbesten Football-Spielerinnen zu Gast hatte.

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The entire gallery is now online. The pictures are uncircumcised and untreated.

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In Sideline View is there a best-off with after-treatment

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The individual portraits there soon here.

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Dedication of Ortsbürgermeisters Wolfgang Peters

He could not resist taking. On Saturday mayor Wolfgang Peter personally came to the training camp of the national team. he was greeted by competitive sports director Christiane long crest, also accepted the gift of the place Silberborn. A chronicle of the place with the theme “From the cabin space for tourist”. Wolfgang Peter insisted on not taking, to sign the book with a personal dedication to the national team. To avoid delaying the training operation, disappeared he unfortunately before a camera on hand was.

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Nach dem Coaches-Meeting machten sich als beinahe letzte die Berliner Autos auf den Weg: Coach Trabi, Physio Steffen, Team-Managerin Mariam und ich fuhren bis unters Dach vollgequetscht mit dem Auto in die Hauptstadt zurück, während die Equipment-Crew den von “Anzak Autovermietung Berlin” gesponsorten Lieferwagen gen Osten steuerte. Am heutigen Vormittag trafen wir uns dann gleich wieder, um den Kleinlaster zu entladen. Wassertonnen, Step-Over-Bags, unfassbar dreckige Trikots und sogar ein (Spielerinnen, dankt es dem Matsch!) nicht benutzer Blockschlitten kamen zum Vorschein. Kisten, Tüten, Becher, Tape, Leinwände, Beamer, Kühlboxen, Probehelme, Werkzeug und Ersatzteile…
was haben wir nicht alles angeschleppt; das Auto sah aus, als ziehe ein gesamter Haushalt um. Jetzt ist alles wieder gut verstaut, die Waschmaschinen laufen auf Hochtouren und wir bereiten uns geistig bereits auf das nächste Camp im Juni in Strausberg (bei Berlin) vor. Von dort geht es dann direkt zum Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld und zur WM nach Stockholm.

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Bettina Janssen National Team Training Camp Silberborn

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The weather is a little better. better means, that you can train. It is still raining in between and when the wind is up it is also bitterly cold. But we can do it, for which we are meeting here: Football!

The first training session of the day takes Coach “babies” Melzer. He has developed an extensive program, to test the players for special teams. While the kicker, Punter, go down Long snapper and Returner to the square, I may I film the test kickoff and Kickoffreturn. May, because the camera is in the warm dining room of this, slowly turn into a mud desert during the girls on the field before me. In five rows side by side they run over and over again the field down. With an increasing number of girls is changing the white and red jerseys slowly into a uniform brown. Later we will see, that there are many shades of brown, depending on how old the stains are.

The following team training is of course filmed. When InsideRun offense succeed some big plays. Later in the scrimmage, the Defense has again ahead.

standards Lueck, our video man, the cameras collected immediately after training. Now the hot phase begins for him. All videos are transferred to his laptop and stored each move individually. This will take the longest in the entire process. We to record the Indies all drills on. The scrimmage will be even partially filmed with three cameras. If standards has everything on his laptop, then he takes him out to dinner and the coaches get the way the videos on their hard drives copied. Thanks to modern technology every coach is all the video promptly on his laptop available. A great thing, especially if you are the one with the situation 10 to 15 years compares. At that time there was only VHS Video. Copying took forever and when playing the comfort was not very. Instead of VHS and television, you now have computers and projectors.

In the afternoon we are back on the square. There are now only a few corners, that we haven't plowed over yet. The player slides out more often. The first injuries also occurred. Our two physios Meike and Steffen have their hands full with taping and treating minor injuries, but now our team doctor Dr. Marco Ezechieli to do. The space conditions are partly to blame, some of them are injuries, that can happen in football. All injured from here get well soon and the wish that they will be well soon.

In the afternoon we have the press again. This time it is the Neue Westfälische, that we can welcome. Suse Erdmann is wanted as an interview partner, who presented itself in good shape in the training camp and dances through the opponents several times in the afternoon as if they were slalom poles.

In the evening, in addition to the video and theory units, all defense players will have a one-to-one talk on the program. Defense Coordinator Daniel Koch and his coaches talk to each player in their group. They show you up, where they are currently in the ranking, what is expected of them on the last day of training, where their strengths and where their weaknesses are. So every player knows the starting situation for the last day. The measure, which is rather unusual in football, is well received by the players.

In the evening everyone sinks into bed tired. The night is short, not least because the time change steals an additional hour from us. Rumor has it that a coach fell asleep in his room while preparing for the next day over work…

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Coach Trabi ist ein Phänomen. Mit bürgerlichen Namen Robert Melzer ist er in der Nationalmannschaft zuständig für die Wide Receiver und die Special Teams.

Der Zeitplan im Trainingscamp ist voll. Absolut voll. Coaches und Spielerinnen haben nur sehr wenige freie Minuten, um mal etwas durch zu schnaufen. 15 Minuten zwischen Abendessen und Theorie-Sitzung sind da schon viel. Alle arbeiten hart und viel. Coaches, Staff und Spielerinnen. Ab und zu muss man sich diese Pause auch mal nehmen. Und das machen auch alle. Nur Coach Trabi scheinbar nicht.

Er bringt zum Abendessen Laptop und Arbeitsmaterial mit . Bevor ich mit meinem Essen fertig bin, steht er schon wieder auf, verkündet mal schnell die Spielerinnen für die Special Teams. Ergeben sich durch die Veränderungen im Zeitplan mal 45 Minuten Leerlauf, setzt er schnell ein weiteres Special Team Meeting an. Jede Minute wird genutzt. Die Analyse von 90 Minuten Special Team Testing erledigt er nebenbei zwischen den Einheiten, Videoscouting und Theorie. Ein Phänomen dieser Mann. Er scheint nie müde zu sein, ist immer aktiv. Respekt. Seine Spielerinnen können sicher sein, dass er ständig für sie da ist und ihnen alle Informationen gibt, damit sie besser werden können. Das Video-Coaching am Samstag abend musste Leistungssportdirektorin Christiane Langkamm dann energisch abbrechen, damit die Spielerinnen auch noch genug Schlaf bekommen. Die Spielerinnen wissen das zu würdigen und ziehen voll mit. Als die Wide Receiver ein zusätzliches Training machen, kommen sogar die Defense Backs dazu und freiwillig machen mit.

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Not in the mood for rain, still a bit frozen and back in the office with a slight cold.

I have a huge respect for the girls, who gave their best all weekend in the weather and fought hard for a place in the team. Most of them will be completely exhausted today.

We only had a very slow internet connection. My UMTS stick just made it 9600 Baud. I had that last 1990 with BTX (if anyone remembers it). The internet terminal in the youth hostel was faster, but not much either. And it didn't have a USB port, so the options were limited. Damage. That'll be better next time.

Reports and pictures will follow today…..

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We have been on the road since early in the morning. Coach Markus Grässer, Defense Line Coach, and who I played with ages ago, picked us up. Head north over the motorway. During a stopover in an American fast food restaurant, we meet the first players. The car from Nuremberg also takes a break here. When the sun is shining, we arrive in Silberhorn one hour before the meeting point. The first players, flown in via Paderborn Airport, are already waiting for us.

The hostel's father is very open-minded and first shows us the space. A nice reception. Car by car, more players are now arriving. You greet each other, After all, you have known each other for years even without a national team. “Hello, the hair a little shorter now?” I am amazed, some coaches quickly got used to the women's national team.

That the difference between women and men is smaller than you might think, you will feel it in the next few minutes. The tension increases. Everyone wants to show, what you can. The minutes before training are the same in every team. No matter if that gentlemen, Are teenagers or women. But first there is theory, only then you go to the field.

Meanwhile the sun is gone. The announced rain is coming. And it's gotten a lot colder, when the players enter the training ground for the first time. But it gets worse. At the inside run it starts to lightning and thunder. The moves suffer from the wet and cold and when the lightning gets thicker, remains only a logical step: cancellation. We prefer the theory unit from Saturday morning, so that the time is used sensibly. “Be flexible” Coach Trabi has already written in the special team playbook. Then let's stick to it.

The team leader, Competitive sports director Christiane Langkamm and manager Mariam Khamsi-Strauch, are traveling with the hostess father. You check the artificial turf pitch in Holzminden, which the host's father has reserved as a precaution. Thank god you have to say, because after the rain the water is on the square behind the youth hostel. After the snow has melted, the water does not flow away as quickly as usual, the hostel father explains to us.

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