Bo Henriksen Interview: Mainz coach, Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel came out of football news

BO Henriksen was nine points from security for the 13 games of the Bundesliga season when they unite Mainz last year. Not only did not keep them, but now he follows the Champions League football in the first season.

It is an extraordinary story, but then Henriksen is an extraordinary person. 50-year-old Dane once was called one of the best players in the lower leagues of British football in English football, one of the best players and bosses with the boss.

The undeniable thing is something special in Mainz. This club is famous for being developed by Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel, but nor the first quarter ended. Now it’s just two points from four games to play a team playing a team last season.

How did Henriksen do it?

Says “fear of fear” Sky sports. “I had to take it immediately and dare to dare to make people dare to be themselves.

“And it was so bad at this point, everyone will listen to a calf.”

Perhaps. However, Henriksen backed the words with actions. In the second match of the responsible, the goalkeeper Robin Zentner’s goalkeeper Robin Zentner’s goalkeeper Robin Zentner was a straight shot in the second half of Mainz collected undefeated leaders in the second half.

“I have heard so much coaching faith and confidence, then a second after a second, saying that someone is wrong, and this player has lost the game because they did not move here. And then it was destroyed.”

Henriksen supported the goalkeeper. “Come on to him, I said next week. You can talk and talk, but if you don’t show your players to believe in them, they will never believe you.” For more than a year and Zentner has not yet missed a game.

Many have improved. Jonathan Burkartt is a stop. At a stage before the appointment of Henriksen, there was a goal in the 21 games. Only three more people scored the Bundesliga goal this season. The game style has been changed.

“When we came, they just kicked it high and long,” he says Henrits. “We have changed around, we want to play more in half spaces, in fact, we are creating a chance. I think we pressed the highest teams in Bundesliga.”

Talking to the pride of the tempo. “The crowd is incredible.” As soon as they do in Borussia Dortmund, Borussia annoys him. “We possibly 98 percent there. This is not enough. I hate being average. I was a middle player.”

Classes from Kidderminster

For English audiences, one of the most stakeholders of Henriksliga’s most interesting coaches to be one of the most interesting coaches, which allegedly players the highest player in the football league.

In the early 2000s, the club and the player was a short open, but Henriksen affected Worcestershire and affected him. “It’s a fantastic place and it was really fun, because this was my childhood hero’s hero Jean Molby.”

Henriksen knew the coach had already knew and learned more about the game about the game. So what did he discover? “Many drinks. Fights in the training. The things I have not seen in my life have not seen before.”

“It was the last chance for players because it was the last chance for these players. It was a little different in Denmark. You were a lawyer or something.

“I learned this in many ways, not football, but about people.

Reminds you of a certain event when you live in the box to gain a fine. Harriers won the game, but it was his own Captain Sean Flynn, who later faced. “He was a fantastic person. He raised me against the cabin,” he said.

“You say, man, man?

To create a new story in Mainz

Still remains a hairstyle. “We really can’t change who we are.” And the classes of these periods in the UK continue. “Culture is everything for me. I am proud of the culture we created.” It’s still something to build relationships.

“If you don’t like your boss, there is no chance you will do your best for him. After that, your body will no longer want to. So if you don’t create a good culture, I will not last long.”

The walker should know as no traveler coach is. “I had seven years and seven years and six people. I know what it takes.” This considers this in Denmark in the first years and building clubs. He went to Midtjylland in 2021 and won the Denmark Cup.

Interestingly, before saving Mainz, the next case saw the next work, the Swiss Super League’s bottoms turned everything in FC Zurich. “I’m hidden in the last 20 years,” he insists. However, this achievement with Mainz is another level.

Why? He just did not save them, he was kicked. Henriksen talks about the difference between preventing and achieving. After the Escape ACT, Mainz lost some of the best players, Sepp Van Den Berg, Brentford and Brajan Gruda’s transfer to Brighton.

“A little fear came to the team again,” he said. “They thought that we had to restore everything. It was perhaps here, perhaps a miracle than to save them from Engcale.” We had to create a new story. “

It was an unshakable beginning, but Mainz won over seven to six in winter, including Bayern Munich. “It’s been better and better.” They once again believed. Not surprisingly, Mainz’s sports director Christian Heidel calls him an encouraging genius.

“If I don’t have this relationship, I can’t help anyone,” he says Henriksen. “Life is about relationships.” As one of the middle field player Nadiem Amiri, who called him “positive madly” and a subtle form behind him five years later.

“I think I think I’m crazy because I dare to be myself.

“Nadim I never see it in football before. He thinks I’m not a normal coach, but I’m not just about being my. I’m not logical.” It’s just for me. “

As Heidel pointed out, Henriksen is like a pigeon crackdown A motivator is more clear to the man. “Of course, we have changed tactically.” However, Henriksen, like a clopp in front of him, gives loans with interesting and environmentally friendly.

“Today, we have many helpers and analytics around us to help small details and tactics. We have been tactically fantastic, my staff is unusually good. But this is about culture

What motivator encourages, then? “These are the little things. This is the people. When you see Jonny called on the national team or recalled the National Team, this is the place for me that I get the pump of my heart.”

What’s next? This is admiration. Well, Henriksen speaks to Kidderminster from possible visit. “I have to go back a day.” However, before that, the big question, he graduated and maybe the Champions League in Europe, and maybe not.

“We have not yet won something but we had a fantastic season.” Complete the double on Bayern Munich this weekend and may be completely different. “It would be very special to the whole region.” A modified area by bo Henriksen.