While there were still rumors about the attitude of Jonas Boldt as a new managing director of Sport at Hertha BSC, the second division soccer team from Berlin in the late evening of Easter Sunday with a resignation quake for excitement: Because the former professional and today’s academy director and licensee boss Andreas “Zecke” Neuendorf took his hat off.
Hertha BSC has completed Easter Sunday with a resignation quake: As the Berliners announced in the late evening, Andreas “Zecke” Neuendorf resigns from his office as director of academy and license player area.
The whole thing happens “for personal reasons”, as the capital association announced.
The former Hertha professional and later official informed the team and the sporting leadership on the Sunday after the 3-2 victory in Ulm about his decision, it said in a message on the club’s own homepage.
“I made this decision anything but easy, because Hertha BSC is my club. The last few years have been very challenging for the club and also me. I am convinced that the (Berliner) path has been the right one and I wish my Hertha the strength to continue this way,” said Neuendorf and added: “Only from now on without me.”
Hertha BSC thanks “Blue and white veteran”
He had “deliberately decided to take this step and to communicate my decision. Hertha has the opportunity to search for a suitable successor early and to plan the coming season,” explains his approach. He was “very grateful to the large Hertha family for the support and understanding of my decision”.
Managing Director Thomas E. Herrich announced that he was very grateful for Neuendorf’s work and referred to the many services of the 50-year-old in almost 200 competitive games as a professional and in ten years as a responsible person (including as a young coach in various classes, as a assistant coach and since the beginning of 2023 head of the license area) in the club.
“We lose a blue and white veteran with tick. He will always be welcome in the future. Once Herthan, always Herthaner,” emphasized President Fabian Drescher.