Julian Nagelsmann of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim has told of a verbal attack by alleged hooligans of FC Augsburg. However, the future coach of RB Leipzig survived the situation unscathed.
“We take the coaching team for walks every morning on match day. This season in Augsburg have insulted us – I would say hooligans -” Nagelsmann told the picture. His colleagues and he would have been called “hopp-pigs” and “bull-pigs”.
Nagelsmann, however, escaped an argument: “They did not attack us. I wouldn’t have wanted that either. There were some tough guys there. That was an awkward situation, because you don’t know how they react. That was once in three and a half years.”
Otherwise, however, he did not have any negative experiences as a TSG trainer on away trips. All in all, however, he had to hold back a little in the meantime: “Privately I am less on the road, so not in the evening, but in general. I go less to the swimming pool, less to the movies, less food because it’s exhausting.”
The 31-year-old always tries hard to fulfil all the wishes of the fans, but often doesn’t keep up: “That’s nice, the people are nice after all. I’m not shy of contact, I don’t send them away, but it takes time.”
With the forthcoming commitment with RB Leipzig Nagelsmann of itself can maintain to have become more self-confident and more surely in its opinions. Despite missing out on the Champions League, he’s satisfied with the past season: “Rationally speaking, we did well this season.”
He had experienced great mutual respect at TSG and described this as the “greatest happiness in life”. In retrospect, he called his entry into the Champions League on the 34th matchday of the 17/18 season the most beautiful moment: “That was brutally emotional.”
