A new broom sweeps clean. Even before the market launch of the artificially intelligent text production machine Chat-GPT, this must have been one of the most common sentences in tabloid sports journalism. He is always used when a coach is fired somewhere. With a view to the 21st matchday of the institutionalized German third-class soccer system, it could now be modified: Interim brooms do not sweep well.
Three of the 20 third-division coaches had been kicked out last week: Michael Köllner at the former top favorite TSV 1860 Munich, André Meyer at Hallesches FC, who were in danger of relegation, and Rüdiger Rehm at FC Ingolstadt. Since the new Zampano is still being sought in the sixties and in Halle (Saale), the interim solutions were allowed to sit on the bench at the weekend. Jens Kiefer, who was actually employed as head of the youth department in Halle, was hit particularly hard: M…
