Brief History Of: Ralf Rangnick

Who is Ralf Rangnick? What has he achieved? Why is he considered one of the fathers of modern German football?

This is a brief history of Ralf Rangnick, and an overview of the coaches he has influenced.

Written by Seb Stafford-Bloor, illustrated by Henry Cooke.

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#Rangnick

[micahkiyimba]

Lobanovskyi was a GREAT Man and coach who had a personal relationship with each player. There were so many good footballers and Coaches in the USSR that did not get a good chance to show their abilities to the world

[mohdridhuanmdkamal]

Somehow, these "rebuild" type managers such as Rangnick, Bielsa, Rehhagel are always something special, with footballing philosophies that defy their times and reverberate all across the footballing world. Yet, their own successes are mostly overlooked because they tend to lack trophies.

[vchandrasekaran]

Expecting him to turn around man utd in half season is way too much. People over estimate what he can deliver in 6 months and under estimate what he can do in 2.5 years 😊

[MrReese]

His time at Hoffenheim could have been a lot more successful - they were first place going into the winter break, where a friendly against HSV saw their goalgetter Ibisevic (18 goals up to that point) getting hurt so badly that his season was over. That was the reason why Hoffenheim only finished 7th.

[jakubkulikowski]

Tifo, please make a piece on Lobanvsky. Due to geography, he seems to be overlooked quite a bit.

[rasto]

I laugh involuntarily everytime someone says "Das Reboot". Such a great title

[donlavita]

Been a Ralph fan since Hoff days. He found bobby and my FM 14 save was a great save

[JNT]

it took klopp 3 years to turn liverpool into a monster. 6 months wont do anything for rangnick, however he can start building a system and structure for the club

[arnavkhantwal]

Both Rangnick and Marcelo Bielsa are blessing the PL

[malcolmkawooya]

This man is a real life Football Manager save.

[Wreckedandruinedand]

This man has achieved so much, lifting small 4th tier clubs into the top flight, yet still a lot of people just care about the major trophy as a standard for a good manager (which Rangnick currently doesnt have any of the top-flight silverware), overshadowing his remarkable feats from club to club, and most importantly: his vision and philosophy.

[Stelo]

I never thought in my life to see my hometown Reutlingen (5th tier of german football nowadays) featured in a Tifo video. Crazy times

Edit: spelling

[ganiniii]

I love it when a manager signs for a club. He's always awesome.

[victorc]

The RB Bragantino project which he was a part of is being part of a true revamping in brazilian club level football, with clubs focusing a lot more of their investments into software/data analysis for scouting, youth player development and overall having more efficient governance. It's pretty interesting to see and may be good material for future videos

[AAMIRKHAN-ytel]

kinda sad that he doesn't get world recognition until he signed with man utd

[BRNakamura]

RB Bragantino have found recent success in the Brazilian League. They reached the Copa Sudamericana final, even tho they lost it, they're currently 5th in the League standings, which nets them a Copa Libertadores Qualifying round place, although the last couple of games have been rough.

[dabormaianjude]

Whilst he did influence Klopp indirectly, Klopp is not really a "disciple" of Rangnick. Klopp's lineage of pressing and counter-pressing (or gegenpress) comes from Wolfgang Frank, his former coach at FSV Mainz, who himself draws his tactical influence from Arrigo Sacchi.

[tanmaysharma]

His mentality is that of a lion, hope that he makes man utd go the right path.

[nana]

Tifo Rangnick also won the DFB-Pokal (German Fa Cup) together with German Supercup in 2011 with Schalke.

[wba]

What's really cool about managers like this is that their success is either born out of failure (i.e. not making it as a pro footballer at a high level), an injury, or a reinvention later in life.