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Hannes Wolf instead of Sami Khedira – How the DFB is now planning
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Hannes Wolf is to be promoted to technical director at the DFB
Quelle: picture alliance/dpa/Carmen Jaspersen
After the failed negotiations with world champion Sami Khedira, the DFB is rethinking. The former Bundesliga coach Hannes Wolf is to become technical director at the association – and in future to lead a competence team. Two former Bundesliga pros are available.
The video has been public for almost six months and lasts one hour and six minutes. In it, Hannes Wolf and Hermann Gerland provide instructions for forms of play in children’s and youth training, which the German Football Association (DFB) recently revolutionized in order to improve youth training. The two coaches – Wolf is currently the coach of the German U20 selection, Gerland most recently worked as an assistant for the German A and U21 selection – talk to each other in the video and explain different forms of play.
So far, however, interest in the duo’s statements has been limited. Just under 33,100 people viewed the video on YouTube. The 42-year-old Hannes Wolf in particular, who was head coach at VfB Stuttgart, HSV and Genk, may have to make himself heard, become better known and acquire more skills in German football.
The latter at least seems to be in the offing. After the failed negotiations with Sami Khedira, the former Bundesliga coach Wolf is to be promoted to technical director at the DFB according to a report in the “Frankfurter Rundschau”.
Talks with Khedira broken off
The coach of the year 2017 is valued at the DFB and, as the champion coach of Borussia Dortmund’s youth team, also has the necessary experience in the youth field. U18 national coach Balitsch has been with the DFB for six years, Wagner most recently coached SpVgg Unterhaching for promotion to the 3rd division and then switched to the DFB to work as Wolf’s assistant coach at the U20.
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According to media reports, Khedira is no longer a candidate to succeed Rudi Völler as DFB sports director. Völler and DFB President Bernd Neuendorf have broken off negotiations with the 36-year-old. Khedira did not have the feeling that he was the ideal candidate and probably did not have the powers and competencies that he would have liked. However, the talks did not fail because of salary issues.
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The DFB is looking for a sports director. Rudi Völler, who took over the task after Oliver Bierhoff’s resignation, would like to give up the position again after the home European Championship in 2024. Khedira was recently in talks as sporting director at the DFB with the prospect of becoming Völler’s successor. The former Bundesliga professional confirmed talks with the DFB at the beginning of August.
