Leverkusen -
This man has seen everything in football. And he can feel the league!
Jupp Heynckes, 64 hurries, with Leverkusen from record to record - and straight to the autumn championship.
At least! What a blessing that Bayer's sporting director Rudi Voeller had the courage to Heynckes after his successful but brief interlude Bayern make again right quick.
For Heynckes presented not only a club-record start, but is also the first coach in the history of the Bundesliga, is undefeated with his new club the first 15 games after the season.
So far, the record of Kalli Feldkamp (1978-79 season with Kaiserslautern) and Klaus Toppmöller (2001/02 Leverkusen) with 14 unbeaten games held.
Jupp Heynckes - depending oller, the doller! 1989 and 1990 he won the German championship last as coach of FC Bayern. Just for comparison: these triumphs experienced the youngest coach in the league, Thomas Tuchel (36) of Mainz in 2005, as a teenager watching TV.
And although Heynckes last 0-0 in Hanover with 23.5 years, sent a very young starting eleven from the field, the senior among the league coaches greeted with three points Vorspung unchanged from the top. In Focus: Top-scorer Stefan Kiessling's 12 season goals.
Much more Heynckes but wisdom lies in the defensive: only nine goals in 15 games are by far the best value in the league. And this is typical Heynckes: Even with his two titles, Bayern were only 54 goals in 68 games, the secret of success.
Values, of which the second-oldest coach in the league, Louis van Gaal (58) can only dream of. Heynckes is he was just ahead: When the little Louis in Holland enrolled, Jupp was born in Germany already in puberty ...
