Florian Kohfeldt keeps emphasising how important it is for him to never be completely satisfied. “We’ve always got to be dissatisfied, deep down. We must keep working hard every day to improve,” states the Coach. He’s clearly striving for more, as are the whole team.
Things just won’t go well without an irrepressible striving for more, and without the desire to get the next three points. It’s difficult to fulfil your aims when you stand still, something which Florian Kohfeldt realises. He tells the Werder players day after day, not only before, during and after training, how important it is to work on improving and never be completely satisfied. “The first step towards failure is being satisfied. There’s nothing wrong with speaking about what went well, of course, but it’s important to still emphasise what didn’t go perfectly and work on it,” says the Coach.
The amount of points Werder have picked up from their first two games shows that these mechanisms are becoming embedded into the team. The Coach has his own opinion on this: “You can’t hold anything back – you’ve got to constantly invest your energy in whatever you do. Therefore you’ve got to be completely focussed at the right moments, but then be relaxed the rest of the time.”
It’s not just Nuremberg that Kohfeldt wants to beat: “We want to win every game. It didn’t happen against Hannover, but parts of that game we played better than when we played Frankfurt. We want to always improve of course, and play nicer football. The main aim is success, and will stay that way. Every game doesn’t have to be an attacking master class, as long as we succeed.”
