In the middle of the promotion race, coach Markus’s second division has separated. After three defeats in a series and the rumors to move to Schalke 04, the FCK leadership pulled the consequences.
On Tuesday evening, the club initially only confirmed the personal details already reported by the Bild newspaper: after a crisis meeting between the club tip and the trainer, the chapter was completed with immediate effect, and its assistant coach Florian Junge must also go. Instead, Torsten Lieberknecht takes over the coaching position and already runs the training on Wednesday.
:All for the trainer
After a big struggle with luck and skill in Kaiserslautern, the Nuremberg prevail-and give their coach, the former FCK scorer Miroslav Klose, a big evening.
“The exemption of the coaching team explains the FCK with the impressions of the past few weeks that the team has not fully exploited their potential and did not achieve their maximum performance,” said a club notification: “After an in-depth analysis, those responsible lack the conviction of counteracting this trend in the current personnel constellation.”
The former FCK professional Lieberknecht had resigned in the League rival Darmstadt 98 in September, according to which the will by managing director Thomas Hengen and sports director Marcel Klos, the experienced coach is now to create the return of the Red Devils to the Bundesliga after 14 years of abstinence. Despite the latest bankruptcy series, the leap upwards is still possible with only three points behind relegation place.
“The fact is, we have lost the last three games, of course, it hurts, but we know where we come from, we know which team we took over, we know how we want to develop. And I think we also took big steps forward”, at the beginning of the 0-2 defeat at relegation candidate Braunschweig on Saturday in the sports show: “We never spoke of the promotion.”
The FCK bosses no longer trusted the turning point, also because the best season since the second league promotion in 2022 was recently clouded in addition to the sporting descent. Sky had reported a conflict of interest from a tangible interest of the Schalke in the former S04 professional at the beginning as a head coach for the coming season.
At the beginning of the season, the start of the coach monument Friedhelm Funkel, who had jumped in in the second half of the turbulent season 2023/24. After a strong season, the FCK finally went out the air. After the last four defeats in five games, the beginning was criticized – the topic of Schalke did the rest.
For the beginning, another coaching station ends noisily. At 1. FC Köln, the Cologne -born in 2019, as the leader of the 2nd Bundesliga, had to go three game days before the end of the season (and the promotion). At the Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, the affair around a fake vaccination pass came out in 2021. Also in 2024 at the third division club Dynamo Dresden was released shortly before the end of the season.