Women’s National Team
DFB extends Voss-Tecklenburg’s contract until 2025
Has extended her contract with the DFB: women’s national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg. photo
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The DFB creates clarity in the most important position in women’s football: Martina Voss-Tecklenburg will stay beyond the 2023 World Cup. President Bernd Neuendorf praises professional and human strengths.
The German Football Association has extended the contract of national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg until 2025.
The DFB announced this in a video link with the 55-year-old, the association president Bernd Neuendorf and Joti Chatzialexiou, sporting director of the national teams.
“These were good discussions, I expressly refer to the technical side. But what is also very important to me is the human side. I felt that it had become a very familiar relationship in the last few weeks,” said Neuendorf on Monday morning. Assistant Britta Carlson will also stay until 2025, she has been a confidant of the national coach for many years. “The thoughts are of course that we are planning something else. We are looking forward to the future and to everything that is to come,” said Voss-Tecklenburg. She is “very proud”.
Contract until 2025
Another cooperation between Voss-Tecklenburg and the association had been indicated for some time. The 125-time national player herself had said that she would like to stay until the 2027 World Cup. The DFB is applying together with Belgium and the Netherlands to host it. The new contract now only runs until the EM 2025, the host of which will be announced by UEFA this Tuesday. The DFB has thus clarified the most important personnel issue for the women before the next international matches on Good Friday in Sittard against the Netherlands and next Tuesday in Nuremberg against Brazil.
Voss-Tecklenburg took over the office from Horst Hrubesch in 2018. At the 2019 World Cup in France, she failed with the German team in the quarterfinals against Sweden and thus also missed the Olympic participation. At the European Championships last year, the native of Duisburg led the DFB women to the final, where they lost to hosts England. The German team wants to play for the title at the World Cup. In the preliminary round, Morocco, Colombia and South Korea are the opponents.
