German football coaches erstellen einen Matchplan, they draw up a match plan for each game. The sports writer Christoph Biermann used the word as the title of his 2018 book, Matchplan. Die neue Fußballmatrix. In 2021, a column in the weekly Der Freitag teased the coaches. When journalists press them about their plan, the column said, they explain it in a way that nobody is likely to understand.