Since Red Bull decided to get into football, Ralf Rangnick became one of its most important men. In 2009, the Austrian energy drink company wanted to enter German football and settled in Leizpig, where it bought its place to play the Oberliga creating RB Leizpig. Three years later, after winning the Cup with Raúl y Jurado's Schalke 04 in 2011, the one from Backnang entered the Red Bull factory, where he has performed successfully until he has reached the top four in Europe two seasons ago. .
Under ex-Liverpool Gérard Houiller, Red Bull group football director, Rangnick became the sporting director of both the energy brand's projects in Europe: Salzburg and Leizpig. Upon his arrival, he redefined the transfer policy in Germany, betting on young talent for its development and subsequent sale.
The list of players who reached the elite after passing through there is long and outstanding, with Haaland together with Timo Werner being the last two jewels of the brand that also appears on the CVs of the European champions with Liverpool, Sadio Mane and Naby Keita. ANDlite, by the way, which he never approached as a player, staying in the semi-professional categories of German football.
In 2016, the mission for which he was hired was fulfilled within the deadline set by the owners. The logo of the red bulls was in the Bundesliga, something for which he was even forced to go from the offices to the bench, where later he also bet on emerging talents such as Nagelsmann, when he put in charge of the ship at its peak after his success at the Hoffenheim. The results and a modern, effective and effective football make it clear that his choice was a success. ORna that Bayern has not been slow to replicate. He too decided to get fresh air and headed to Lokomotiv Moscow this July. Now, he receives the interest of Barcelona according to Mundo Deportivo.
Although his career shines more from the office than from the grass, Ralf Rangnick has already received offers to return to the edge of the grass. This was really close to Milan, where his hiring generated a war between the CEO and the sports management that ended with the departure of Boban from the club. There, they offered him a role of 'manager' in the English style with power over green and outside of it to direct the squad as he requested. This would be one of the points that could now distance him from taking charge of Barcelona.
As a regular coach, Rangnick has had an extensive career. He started out as a player-coach at Vicktoria Backnang in the 1980s and progressed his career between the Stuttgart academy, Korb and another brief coach-play stint at Lippoldsweiler. After going through the Regionalliga with Reutlingen and the 2. Bundesliga with Ulm, he received Stuttgart, then went to Hannover and from there, to Schalke 04, where he won the German Cup. After Gelsenkirchen, he spent his longest period on a bench in Hoffenheim and then started at the Red Bull factory, where his method led Barcelona to become interested.