Bernd Winkler and Dusan Pavlovic in dialog
The primary half of the common season within the ADMIRAL Ladies’s Bundesliga is over, and our women 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 girls’s soccer division, and head coach Dusan Pavlovic to debate their first few months within the ÖFB Ladies’s Bundesliga and the related expectations for our younger staff.
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Double interview with Bernd Winkler and Dusan Pavlovic
First query – how would you summarise the season to date?
Bernd: “Very passable! I might even go as far as to say we at the least met, if not exceeded, our expectations.”
Dusan: “I might describe it as largely best. Our expectations have undoubtedly been met. From a training perspective, you may all the time anticipate a little bit extra, in fact, 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 high groups like St. Pölten, regardless of our good performances.”
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With a spot within the championship group at the moment inside attain, what are the inner 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 far-off.”
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 acquire in order that we will proceed to maneuver up.”
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Our staff is relatively younger and – as you talked about – suffered a couple of massive setbacks early within the season. How did the women deal with that, Dusan?
Dusan: “Rather well, particularly for his or her younger age! You see usually 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 reasonably the women, did that basically effectively! Simply final week in opposition to Hartberg, we conceded a aim out of nowhere after taking a 2-0 lead. It took us possibly a minute, after which the women had been again on the assault, so I’ve to reward the staff.”
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What sort of soccer or model of play can our followers anticipate within the Ladies’s Bundesliga?
Dusan: “We’ve got a really clear means of enjoying. 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 effectively inside the plan we wish to implement on the pitch, though we clearly have our factors the place we nonetheless want to enhance.”
The concept from the very starting was to convey Salzburg women 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: “Total, it has been extraordinarily optimistic! We have managed to introduce women from our U16 staff to the Bundesliga in a brief area of time. The concept from the very starting was to convey Salzburg women into the Bundesliga so they may play an essential position there. After all, I used to be very excited earlier than the season to see how it might all work out. Only recently in opposition to Hartberg, we had three 16-year-olds within the beginning lineup, which remains to be very, very younger for the Ladies’s Bundesliga.”
I can 100% suggest everybody to return to one in every of our dwelling video games on the academy!
Bernd Winkler
And off the pitch?
Bernd: “After all, we needed to do some homework beforehand, and I am actually happy with how effectively all the pieces goes. You can even see that our entry is already having a big impact, as a result of it is merely one thing totally different for the groups when FC Crimson Bull Salzburg go to. Proper from the beginning, we obtained a number of requests from ORF and the Bundesliga for stay video games, considerably greater than lately with our associate membership Bergheim, for instance. The house video games are additionally simply extremely cool! The opening recreation specifically was an actual soccer pageant. I obtained a whole lot of optimistic suggestions from followers, who stated they actually loved the entire expertise and the optimistic ambiance. I can 100% suggest everybody to return to one in every of our dwelling video games on the academy!”
It is undoubtedly a privilege to be right here with your entire teaching staff and employees.
Dusan Pavlovic
Dusan, what does it imply to you personally to be the pinnacle coach of our first ever girls’s Bundesliga staff?
Dusan: “I am simply extremely fortunate to be right here from the very starting, ranging from U16 stage. It is clearly a extremely cool factor, and I am very grateful to the membership for giving me the chance to take this step. It is undoubtedly a privilege to be right here with your entire teaching staff and employees, together with Isabella [Schweighofer] and the others. They’re an incredible group on and off the pitch! And what makes me happiest is seeing the gamers doing effectively 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 along with their nationals groups?
Bernd: “We’re delighted that, along with a number of gamers on the Austrian U19 nationwide staff, we’ve two senior internationals for Bosnia, Aldina Hamzic and Vina Crnoja, in addition to Lucia Orkic on the Croatian nationwide staff. 4 gamers are additionally anticipated to be referred to as as much as the Austrian nationwide staff, together with Sara Grabovac, who’s simply 16 years outdated! Particularly for the Austrian nationwide staff, it is an enormous step to have gamers from our personal league. Prior to now, they had been primarily simply international gamers, and that reveals that there is already a optimistic growth right here.”
Bernd, you have been main the ladies’s soccer undertaking at our membership for 3 years now, from the very starting, and have been a part of your entire growth from a pure U16 staff to the Bundesliga. The place will girls’s soccer be at our membership in three years?
Bernd: “That is an attention-grabbing query! The previous couple of years have been very fast when it comes to growth. I believe the following steps ahead shall 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 staff round Dusan does it so effectively, we’ll have the ability to take additional steps ahead although. Let’s speak about 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: “Effectively, if the season had been to finish immediately with our present place within the desk, then would undoubtedly be a optimistic debut season – 100%.”
Dusan: “From my perspective, too! Above all, I might hope that we handle to get factors in opposition to one of many high 4 or three groups – then I might be fully glad!”
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Dwelling match at academy on Friday night
Your subsequent probability to see our girls’s staff stay within the Bundesliga is that this Friday! At 19:00 CEST, our women will host BW Linz/Kleinmünchen in a house conflict on the academy. Admission is free, as all the time!
