Former SC Freiburg head coach Christian Streich has formally ruled out a return to professional football management.
The 61-year-old, who concluded his 13-year tenure at the Bundesliga club in 2024, confirmed his stance during a conference at the German Sport University in Cologne on Saturday, T-Online reported.
Streich, a fixture of the Freiburg organization who managed the team for 488 matches, cited a lack of desire to return to the sidelines. “I watch the games, then I see the coaches and I think to myself: I don’t want to go there anymore,” Streich said at the event, according to T-Online.
The decision to step away from the sport is rooted in the physical and mental fatigue experienced during his final years in the Bundesliga.
“At the end, I was very tired. I didn’t feel well,” Streich told T-Online. “In the last two years in the Bundesliga, I didn’t have the energy anymore, so I couldn’t feel any joy in this profession.”
While Streich has transitioned into a role as a television expert for ZDF, he maintains an active interest in the evolution of the game.
“I don’t think we have a youth development problem,” Streich said. He added with a smile that he may no longer be close enough to the daily operations of the sport to offer a definitive judgment on the matter. These comments reinforce the position he expressed earlier this year, when he first suggested that his career as a professional coach had likely concluded.
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