2023-08-21 10:56:47
Now it is official.
The former Bundesliga coach Hannes Wolf (42/including HSV, Stuttgart and Leverkusen) will be director for the youth, training and development department at the DFB!
Wolf was presented in Frankfurt on Monday and will remain the U20 coach.
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Wolf leads a competence team for the promotion of young talent, which also includes the former national players Sandro Wagner (35) and Hanno Balitsch (42).
DFB President Bernd Neuendorf (62): “He is an important building block for the new structure that we want to give ourselves for the sporting area. He has a lot of experience not only here in the association, which is very important, but also in the professional field, in the professional leagues.”
Wolf is responsible for one of three directorates in the sports department at the DFB. Sports director for the men’s senior national team is Rudi Völler, the post for the same area of responsibility for the women’s selection is still to be filled. In addition, a senior management position is to be filled.
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For the role of sports management, ex-world footballer Nadine Kessler (35) is traded, would then have the authority over the directors of the national team and U21, women’s football and young people.
The former central midfielder went to UEFA after retiring in 2016, where she has headed the women’s football department since 2017.
Kessler became European champion with the DFB-Elf in 2013, Europe’s footballer of the year in 2014 and world footballer. In the women’s Bundesliga, she played for Wolfsburg and Potsdam, was German champion four times and won the cup three times. The 29-time national player ended her career in 2016 because of a knee injury.
Ralf Rangnick (65) and Matthias Sammer (55) were recently also in the room as candidates for the post of management.
One of the three director posts has now been filled with Wolf.
Wolf: “Together with our competence team, we will provide impetus for good youth training in Germany.”
And further: “We want to work hand in hand with all the bodies involved in training to improve training on the soccer fields in this country.”
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