Bernd Winkler and Dusan Pavlovic in dialog
The primary half of the common season within the ADMIRAL Girls’s Bundesliga is over, and our ladies have made an instantaneous impression in our debut season, not solely by taking two convincing wins in a row. What precisely is the present standing? We sat down for a double interview with Bernd Winkler, head of our ladies’s soccer division, and head coach Dusan Pavlovic to debate their first few months within the ÖFB Girls’s Bundesliga and the related expectations for our younger workforce.
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Double interview with Bernd Winkler and Dusan Pavlovic
First query – how would you summarise the season thus far?
Bernd: “Very passable! I might even go as far as to say we at the least met, if not exceeded, our expectations.”
Dusan: “I’d describe it as largely superb. Our expectations have positively been met. From a training perspective, you’ll be able to at all times anticipate a bit of extra, after all, and in that respect, I believe it is a disgrace that we got here away with none factors within the video games in opposition to prime groups like St. Pölten, regardless of our good performances.”
With a spot within the championship group at present inside attain, what are the interior expectations, and the way have they developed over the course of the primary half of the season?
Bernd: “The expectation is that we first set up ourselves within the league and initially place ourselves in mid-table – that was what we got down to do earlier than the season. So, not a lot has modified, aside from the truth that we have seen that the trail to the following step is not that distant.”
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Dusan: “Within the video games in opposition to St. Pölten and the like, we additionally noticed that we might have achieved much more. These are the experiences we have to achieve in order that we will proceed to maneuver up.”
Our workforce is relatively younger and – as you talked about – suffered a couple of huge setbacks early within the season. How did the ladies deal with that, Dusan?
Dusan: “Very well, particularly for his or her younger age! You see typically sufficient in skilled sports activities that it isn’t a on condition that groups can merely recover from such setbacks and preserve going – however we, or relatively the ladies, did that actually properly! Simply final week in opposition to Hartberg, we conceded a objective out of nowhere after taking a 2-0 lead. It took us possibly a minute, after which the ladies have been again on the assault, so I’ve to reward the workforce.”
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What sort of soccer or model of play can our followers anticipate within the Girls’s Bundesliga?
Dusan: “We’ve a really clear method of taking part in. We play with depth and defend positively. We have already made some actually good steps in our growth. It could be our first Bundesliga season, however we’re already shifting fairly properly inside the plan we need to implement on the pitch, despite the fact that we clearly have our factors the place we nonetheless want to enhance.”
The thought from the very starting was to deliver Salzburg ladies into the Bundesliga.
Bernd Winkler
How did the beginning of our debut Bundesliga season go, and what insights have we gained over the previous few weeks and months?
Bernd: “General, it has been extraordinarily optimistic! We have managed to introduce ladies from our U16 workforce to the Bundesliga in a brief house of time. The thought from the very starting was to deliver Salzburg ladies into the Bundesliga so they might play an vital position there. In fact, I used to be very excited earlier than the season to see how it will all work out. Only in the near past in opposition to Hartberg, we had three 16-year-olds within the beginning lineup, which remains to be very, very younger for the Girls’s Bundesliga.”
I can 100% suggest everybody to return to certainly one of our residence video games on the academy!
Bernd Winkler
And off the pitch?
Bernd: “In fact, we needed to do some homework beforehand, and I am actually happy with how properly all the things goes. You may as well see that our entry is already having a huge effect, as a result of it is merely one thing totally different for the groups when FC Pink Bull Salzburg go to. Proper from the beginning, we obtained a number of requests from ORF and the Bundesliga for dwell video games, considerably greater than in recent times with our associate membership Bergheim, for instance. The house video games are additionally simply extremely cool! The opening sport specifically was an actual soccer pageant. I obtained quite a lot of optimistic suggestions from followers, who mentioned they actually loved the entire expertise and the optimistic ambiance. I can 100% suggest everybody to return to certainly one of our residence video games on the academy!”
It is positively a privilege to be right here with the complete teaching workforce and employees.
Dusan Pavlovic
Dusan, what does it imply to you personally to be the top coach of our first ever ladies’s Bundesliga workforce?
Dusan: “I am simply extremely fortunate to be right here from the very starting, ranging from U16 degree. It is clearly a very cool factor, and I am very grateful to the membership for giving me the chance to take this step. It is positively a privilege to be right here with the complete teaching workforce and employees, together with Isabella [Schweighofer] and the others. They’re a terrific group on and off the pitch! And what makes me happiest is seeing the gamers doing properly and persevering with to develop.”
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After this weekend, the ladies’s worldwide break is upon us – how far can our go together with their nationals groups?
Bernd: “We’re delighted that, along with a number of gamers on the Austrian U19 nationwide workforce, we’ve got two senior internationals for Bosnia, Aldina Hamzic and Vina Crnoja, in addition to Lucia Orkic on the Croatian nationwide workforce. 4 gamers are additionally anticipated to be referred to as as much as the Austrian nationwide workforce, together with Sara Grabovac, who’s simply 16 years outdated! Particularly for the Austrian nationwide workforce, it is an enormous step to have gamers from our personal league. Previously, they have been primarily simply international gamers, and that reveals that there is already a optimistic growth right here.”
Bernd, you’ve got been main the ladies’s soccer venture at our membership for 3 years now, from the very starting, and have been a part of the complete growth from a pure U16 workforce to the Bundesliga. The place will ladies’s soccer be at our membership in three years?
Bernd: “That is an fascinating query! The previous few years have been very speedy by way of growth. I believe the following steps ahead can be a bit slower now that we have created the construction with the three groups. If we proceed to work so constantly and the teaching workforce round Dusan does it so properly, we’ll be capable to take additional steps ahead although. Let’s discuss it once more in three years!”
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Lastly, a query for each of you: What’s going to it take so that you can say on the finish: “That was a profitable first season!”
Bernd: “Nicely, if the season have been to finish at the moment with our present place within the desk, then would positively be a optimistic debut season – a hundred percent.”
Dusan: “From my perspective, too! Above all, I’d hope that we handle to get factors in opposition to one of many prime 4 or three groups – then I’d be utterly completely satisfied!”
House match at academy on Friday night
Your subsequent likelihood to see our ladies’s workforce dwell within the Bundesliga is that this Friday! At 19:00 CEST, our ladies will host BW Linz/Kleinmünchen in a house conflict on the academy. Admission is free, as at all times!
