Second division bottom club Eintracht Braunschweig separated from sports director Peter Vollmann and shortly afterwards presented a new coach, Daniel Scherning.
Medium earthquake at Eintracht Braunschweig: Two days after the bankruptcy in the Niedersachsensenderby at Hannover 96, the Lower Saxony team initially parted ways with Peter Vollmann, only to introduce Daniel Scherning as their new coach a few hours later.
The 40-year-old signed a contract with the “Lions” until June 30, 2024. With options for the 2nd and 3rd leagues, as the club announced. The former Osnabrück and Bielefeld coach will be leading training at Eintracht this Tuesday. Scherning brings Andreas Zimmermann with him as a new assistant coach. Interim coach Marc Pfitzner recently coached the team, but suffered two defeats in two games.
“We have to try to ignore everything that has happened so far this season.”
—Daniel Scherning
“I am firmly convinced that we have the sporting potential to initiate a turnaround and catch up as quickly as possible,” said Scherning, who will face his former club Osnabrück in his first game as Braunschweig coach (Saturday, 1 p.m , in the NDR Livecenter). “The focus is initially on the extremely important game on Saturday in order to approach the next few weeks positively with a sense of success. We will work intensively towards that.”
Scherning will be officially introduced on Thursday (11.30 a.m.) at a press conference for the home game against VfL Osnabrück.
Kessel takes over Vollmann tasks
“Daniel Scherning completely meets our requirements profile. He has shown a plan and clear solutions that he would like to implement with our team in the fight to stay in the league,” said Benjamin Kessel.
Eintracht’s sports director will take over Vollmann’s duties. “We hired Benjamin Kessel as sports director in the summer with the clear intention of building him up to be Peter Vollmann’s successor. He will now take on more responsibility in his position earlier than originally planned and expand his area of responsibility,” explained club president Nicole Kumpis.
Braunschweig in last place in the table
Vollmann, whose contract as sports director ran until December 31, 2024, is blamed for the traditional club’s sporting decline; he was criticized for the composition of the squad. His coaching decision to replace Michael Schiele during the summer break with Jens Härtel, who has also since been fired, also did not work out. With just five points after twelve games, BTSV is in last place in the table and is already seven points behind relegation place 16.
“After the weak start to the season and an in-depth analysis of the past few months, we have come to the decision to make a change in the sporting management with a view to the future,” said supervisory board chairman Jens-Uwe Freitag, who thanked Vollmann for his “great commitment”. . “Under his leadership, we were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2020 and 2022 as well as staying in the league at the end of last season.”
Vollmann keeps his fingers crossed for Eintracht
Vollmann said he is keeping his fingers crossed for the team in the fight to stay in the league: “I am convinced that they can and will achieve their goal.” The 65-year-old returned to Hamburger Straße as sports director at the beginning of the 2019/2020 season, almost 17 years after his time as Eintracht coach.
Peter Vollmann continues to keep his fingers crossed for Eintracht.
In 2002, as coach of the Blue-Yellow, he celebrated promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga, in 2020 and 2022 he put together two promotion teams, and again made it into the lower house of football. Last season we ended up in 15th place and staying in the class.
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Sports current | November 7, 2023 | 12:17 p.m
