Thomas Sageder’s term as LASK coach has come to an end. The athletes gave up the 40-year-old and his previous assistant Maximilian Ritscher will set up the team until the end of the season.
“We didn’t make this decision lightly. However, recent sporting developments have now prompted us to give the team a new impetus,” explained sports director Radovan Vujanovic.
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LASK expects Ritscher to provide a new boost. The 30-year-old ended his career in 2018 due to injury and moved to the academy’s coaching team. He went to LASK via the then second division FC Juniors OÖ, where he became part of the Bundesliga coaching team in the winter of 2022. – most recently as assistant to Sageder.
After the surprising separation from Dietmar Kühbauer following last season, Sageder was just as surprisingly presented as his successor. At his first coaching position in the Bundesliga, Oliver Glasner’s former assistant coach in Wolfsburg scored more points with the athletes in the fall than his predecessor Kühbauer in the same period, despite additional European Cup games and the radical change in style of play – for which he was also hired.
In the spring the development stopped: the defense was stable, but only four goals were scored offensively in seven games – the situation was made worse by the loss of Robert Zulj. Due to the 0-1 defeat at Sturm Graz last Sunday, LASK also lost third place. Now he drew the consequences from LASK.
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Günther Mayrhofer
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