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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 group from A to C approached the boys’s group below the title 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 % stake. “We wish to deliver younger gamers nearer to the Bundesliga group. With the title 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 objective: “We wish to be the coaching membership within the space we was.”
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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 group was even kicked out of the sport. Background: Three gamers beforehand, two parted methods in the midst of the season. Youth A misplaced all video games. At the tip of the yr, coaches Stephan Schlegel and Gordon Keys additionally resigned and had been employed by the boys’s state league membership ATSV Stockelsdorf. No gamers, no coaches, no success. Later, dad and mom complained that there have been typically solely two potential examine classes as an alternative of 4, and that extra choices weren’t taken. “Some issues did not go nicely 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 tip of A’s youth: “It’s a blow to our neck, utterly incomprehensible.” Euro grew to become the largest sponsor of VfL youth. 30,000 euros have been invested in 2021 in comparison with 10,000 euros final yr. Nawrocki: “The result’s enjoyable. After all, promotion of younger abilities is essential for us as a membership.”
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However, Pankofer doesn’t take into account 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 shall be launched shortly. “It would not work that manner anymore,” says Pankofer, including: “We’ve received an excellent placement from the youth of Group B, there are sufficient good coaches, together with the athletics coach. It seems to be actually good for subsequent season.” In addition, as a associate of Viactiv (medical health insurance), extra tasks equivalent to vitamin counseling and psychological help had been launched. “There’s so much occurring proper now,” Pankofer mentioned. We’re right here, we’re on the ball.”