Diego Demme ya taba aiki tare da wasu daga cikin manyan masanan dabaru a kwallon kafa ta Turai, amma Ralf Rangnick — wanda aka fi saninsa da 'Uban Gegenpressing' — shi ne ya bar alamar da ta fi zurfi a kan aikin sa.

A wata hira ta musamman da FourFourTwo, Demme ya yi tsokaci kan tasirin da Rangnick ya yi a lokacin shekarunsu tare a RB Leipzig, yana yaba wa mai horar da shi tsohon ba kawai don ya ƙara masa fahimtar dabaru ba, har ma don canza tunaninsa game da ƙwararriyar aiki gaba ɗaya.

«Ina tsammanin abin da na fi koya daga Rangnick shi ne game da yadda za a zama ƙwararru. Shekaru 10 ne suka shige, amma shi ƙwararru ne a dukkan abu; ya ba mu mafi kyawun magani, mafi kyawun abinci, mafi kyawun wanka,» in ji Demme ga FourFourTwo.

Ɗan wasan tsakiya na Jamus ya so abincin da Rangnick yake tsarawa bayan wasanni sosai har ya fara shirya su gida bayan zaman motsa jiki. «Na son abincin da ya ba mu cin bayan wasannin sosai har wani lokaci nakan dafa wadancan abinci guda bayan zaman gym nawa,» ya bayyana. «Nagelsmann yana da dabaru sosai, amma ina tsammanin na fi koya daga Rangnick saboda mun yi aiki tare tsawon shekaru masu yawa.»

Hira ta mintuna 30 a filin jirgin sama da ta canza komai

Rangnick ya shawo kan Demme ya bar Paderborn — waɗanda suke kusa da haɓakawa ta farko zuwa Bundesliga — ya shiga Leipzig a watan Janairu 2014. Shawarar ta biyo bayan hira ɗaya ta mintuna 30 a filin jirgin sama. Abin da ya zama kamar mataki ɗaya zuwa baya ya zama mataki biyu zuwa gaba cikin sauri, domin Demme ya taimaka wa Red Bulls su sami haɓakawa biyu a cikin shekaru uku.

Da Demme yana sarrafa tsakiyar filin, Leipzig sun tabbatar da kansu a matsayin ƙarfi na gaske a Bundesliga, a ƙarshe suka kai finaIin DFB-Pokal ta 2018/19 — wasan ƙarshe na Rangnick a matsayin manaja na kulob ɗin kafin ya canja zuwa matsayin Head of Sport and Development na Red Bull.

Lokacin Demme a ƙarƙashin magaji Rangnick, Julian Nagelsmann, ya daɗe watanni kaɗan kawai kafin ya tafi Napoli a shekara ta 2020. Matakin ya tabbatar da hikima: ya lashe Coppa Italia ta 2019/20 — kambun farko na Napoli a cikin shekaru shida — sannan Scudetto ta 2022/23, yana ƙarewa jiran shekaru 33 na lakabi na gasar.

Gado na Rangnick: mai horarwa da ke ci gaba da gina

A cikin sama da shekaru 40 a rikon kulob, Rangnick ya lashe 2. Bundesliga tare da Hannover 96, ya jagorance Hoffenheim zuwa haɓakawa biyu a jere, ya kai Schalke 04 zuwa DFB-Pokal da rabin finaIin UEFA Champions League, kuma ya gina dukkan tsarin kwallon kafa na Red Bull a duk fadin RB Leipzig da Red Bull Salzburg. Tasirin sa kan tsara masu horarwa — da suka haɗa da Thomas Tuchel, Nagelsmann, Ralph Hasenhüttl, Marco Rose, da Roger Schmidt — an rubuta shi sosai.

Hanyoyinsa marasa sasantawa ba su dace da kowa ba. 'Yan wasa ciki har da Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesse Lingard, da Anthony Martial sun yi rikici da shi a lokacin da ba a gamsu da shi ba a Manchester United. Duk da haka nesa da Old Trafford, Rangnick, mai shekaru 68, ya sake gina darajarsa cikin ban mamaki. A matsayin manajan ƙungiyar ƙasar Austria, ya kai su ga zagaye na 16 a Euro 2024 kuma ya tabbatar da shiga Kofin Duniya ta farko a cikin shekaru 28.

Ga Demme — wanda ya yi ritaya bayan ɗan wasa na ƙarshe a Hertha Berlin — darussa da Rangnick ya shuka a ciki sun tabbatar da cewa suna da ƙima kamar abincin da ya yi wahayi. Kaɗan ne daga cikin masu horarwa, kamar yadda ake ganin haka, suka taɓa ciyar da jiki da hankali na kwallon kafa da irin wannan inganci.