Sports Managing Director Marcel Schäfer sets great hopes in interim coach Zsolt Löw after the separation of coach Marco Rose. One is “convinced that he is the right man” to breathe in the unsettled team “Energy and Life”, Schäfer said in a media round on Monday. Before the semi-finals in the DFB Cup on Wednesday (8:45 p.m.) at VfB Stuttgart, Löw needs “not to reinvent football,” emphasized Schäfer. Rather, it is about “putting the strengths in the foreground, bringing new winds and new energy in to put a new impulse for the remaining tasks this season”.
On Sunday, one day after the 0: 1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach, RB announced the separation of Rose and presented Zsolt Löw as an interim solution until summer. Those who will take over the coaching position in the coming season left Schäfer open. “We have a clear plan for the profile and a clear idea of how we want to play football,” said the 40-year-old: “We will have conversations accordingly and present a convincing solution.”
From 2015 to 2018, Löw was already a assistant coach under Ralph Hasenhüttl and Ralf Rangnick in Leipzig before becoming an assistant to Thomas Tuchel at his stations Paris, Chelsea and FC Bayern. Since January he has been acting as a “Head of Soccer Development” at RB in the team of corporate football chief Jürgen Klopp. The plan apparently stipulates that Löw will move back to RB in the summer. In the Bundesliga, the Leipzig team lags behind their demands in sixth place, the qualification for the Champions League is at risk.