Christian Ziege: Back to Borussia Mönchengladbach After 17 Years

Christian Ziege, here as a guest at the anniversary celebration on August 1, 2025, is working for Borussia Mönchengladbach again.

The coaching carousel has turned a lot at Borussia Mönchengladbach’s youth department at the turn of the year!

The starting signal for the massive restructuring was the promotion of Eugen Polanski to head coach of the first team. His jump to the professionals, which he made together with assistant Tobias Trulsen, triggered a whole wave of new appointments.

Christian Ziege becomes assistant coach for the Gladbach youth team

Sascha Eickel initially took over the U23 as an interim solution. The club has now used the winter break to rearrange everything for the second half of the season.

Mirko Sandmöller, the head of the youth center, explained at „borussia.de“we deliberately waited for the game-free period. This means that concentration should not be disturbed during ongoing operations: “We saw the winter break as a better time to use the preparation with the new coaching team and start the second part of the season as well prepared as possible.”

Oliver Kirch, previously coach of the U19, is now in charge of the U23 in the Regionalliga West. He is assisted by Daniel Mair and Maximilian Nadidai. As a result, Mihai Enache moves up a step from U17 to U19. He will be supported there by two prominent names, Marcel Ndjeng and Daniel Ginczek.

But the most spectacular news comes from the U17! Denis Hauswald, who previously coached the U15s, takes over command there. In addition to Nils Wüsten, he will be assisted as an assistant by a former national player: After 17 years, Christian Ziege is making his comeback at Borussia!

After the end of his playing career, the former Gladbach professional was initially the U17 coach at Borussia, and has since also been assistant and interim coach and sports director for the professionals. He resigned as assistant coach in 2008. He then worked, among other things, as a trainer in the DFB’s youth sector.

The U15 is also being recast: Nathan Nzuzi and Jona Simon are taking over, with the support of Michel Lieder. With the U16, however, everything remains as usual: Felix Galli and Tae-Young Moon continue to lead the team, assisted by Markus Hansen. There will be no changes to the coaching positions in the age groups from U14 down to U9. (red)

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