RB Leipzig Coach Zorniger: Good experience for Subrata Pal!

German fourth division (Regionalliga Nordost) club, RB Leipzig are not going to sign Indian international goalkeeper Subrata Pal ( RB Leipzig: Subrata not selected, but club to invite him again), but at the club, they were all praise for the Indian keeper. Here is what RB Leipzig’s Head Coach Andreas Zorniger told me about Subrata Pal.

You had Subrata Pal at RB Leipzig for a couple of weeks in training, though only a week with your senior team. What is your impression about him?

He is highly motivated, a very friendly and very well behaved boy.

I think it was good experience for him to train under a man like Perry Bräutigam (RB Leipzig goalkeeper coach), and he had a good understanding with our other goalkeepers, who together got the best out of him in training. He will have seen that you are allowed to make few to no mistakes here as a goalkeeper in Germany.

And I think these two weeks will have helped him to improve, and we could see it ourselves in the little time he was here.

Was this your first contact with Indian football?

I have seen a little Indian football on television, but it was the first Indian player to train under me though Perry Bräutigam worked with him most of the time.

What would be your judgement on Subrata Pal?

You could see that he has got the talent, and the basics to become a very good goalkeeper, but also one could see that he needs to work even more on himself to become better and better.

You are new to RB Leipzig, which is seen as something special in German football. Surprised to suddenly have had an Indian goalkeeper amongst your players?

I knew when I signed the contract with RB Leipzig due to the involvement of Red Bull, that this is not a usual football club.

Surely, having an Indian goalkeeper came as a surprise to me at the start, but in training, for us to have a talented fourth goalkeeper was not an issue, actually it was good for the training sessions to have another goalkeeper.

So in the end, it helped us, and I hope the same for Subrata as well!