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Two days following the dismissal of coach André Breitenreiter (49), TSG Hoffenheim is regarding to sign a successor. According to BILD information, the Bundesliga club is regarding to reach an agreement with Pellegrino Matarazzo (45).
The commitment should be completed in the next few hours. Matarazzo should then be on the bench in the home game once morest Leverkusen on Saturday and change tack.
Breitenreiter was released on Sunday evening following nine league games without a win and a crash in 14th place. Previously, he and his team suffered a 5-2 defeat once morest VfL Bochum.
Breitenreiter returned to the Bundesliga from FC Zurich last summer and succeeded Sebastian Hoeneß. The originally targeted goal of the European Cup is already a long way off following 19 match days. 15 points are missing in sixth place.
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Ex-Stuttgart coach Matarazzo was already assistant coach to Julian Nagelsmann in Hoffenheim. He also stayed when Nagelsmann moved from Hoffenheim to Leipzig in 2019.
At the beginning of January 2020 he took over the second division team of VfB Stuttgart as successor to Tim Walter. He rose to the Bundesliga with the club.
In his first season in the Bundesliga, VfB Stuttgart finished ninth in the table under him. In his third season at VfB, he was able to secure 15th place on the last day of the game and thus once more relegation in the Bundesliga.
After not winning a single one of the first nine games this season, Matarazzo was fired as VfB coach last October.
Hoffenheim’s first preferred candidate was Ralph Hasenhüttl (55, formerly of Leipzig and Southampton). The Austrian, who, like Adi Hütter, was also traded as a successor, had announced that he was not available.
