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Paderborn gives the green light: Kwasniok comes for this sum
Updated on 04.06.2025 – 4:41 p.m.Reading time: 81 min.
The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.
The coaching question of 1. FC Köln has apparently been finally clarified: As the “picture” reports, SC Paderborn has agreed to change from Lukas Kwasniok. The East Westphalia let the 43-year-old, who is still under contract until June 30, 2026, move to Cologne for one million euros plus possible bonuses.
With Kwasniok itself, FC had already agreed on a two -year contract by 2027 in the past few days. Since Paderborn now gives the green light, the proclamation of the personnel is only a matter of form. Vice President Eckhard Sauren recently told Radio Cologne: “I hope that we will be through this week.”
The 1. FC Köln experiences groundbreaking days. While the Bundesliga promoted with desired coach Lukas Kwasniok, according to “Sky”, was able to agree on a two-year contract and now with SC Paderborn for the transfer fee for the 43-year-old Pokert, the board members Werner Wolf and Eckhard Sauren have announced their farewell. President Wolf and deputy Sauren announced at Radio Köln that they did not want to compete with new teams at the general meeting in September.
Together with Carsten Wettich, also Vice President, the two of them wanted a third term, but the support of the member council was missing. “After almost 25 years I will say goodbye to 1. FC Köln,” said Wolf, who held various posts during this time. Sauren added that it was “the most sensible step to give the members the choice of other teams and personally to draw the consequence with a little melancholy”. Meanwhile, Wettich wants to stay in office together with entrepreneur Wilke Strom and the former FC player Tugba Tekkal.
Speculators had long been speculated about the change: Tim Lemperle switched to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. This was announced by its sports manager Andreas Schicker in the evening at the ordinary general meeting of the association with loud applause. The attacker comes from Cologne free of charge. Lemperle had scored ten goals for the Cologne team in the past second division season.
Football Bundesliga club Hoffenheim ended the season on a disappointing 15th place. “It was a shit,” said Schicker in retrospect and added to the coming season: “It is important for me that the TSG stands for something again that there are profiles. That we have players where we would like to go back to the stadium and we are all back together.”
The 1. FC Köln has probably found a new head coach. At least the joint committee, the crucial body of the billy goats, gave the green light for the 43-year-old’s commitment after a conversation with Lukas Kwasniok. First reported Sky.
Sports director Thomas Kessler has now received the order to conclude the negotiations with Kwasniok. Previously, Kessler had held talks with numerous coaching candidates and finally presented Kwasniok as the first election to the joint committee. This has now been confirmed.
Isak Johannesson is about to switch to 1st FC Köln and thus angered the fans of Fortuna Düsseldorf. In the past season, the Icelander had repeatedly expressed his love for Fortuna and even kissed the coat of arms after a goal at the derby in Cologne. After his intention became known, hundreds of angry comments from Düsseldorf followers quickly gathered on his Instagram profile. Johannesson was referred to as “traitor”, he wished for injuries. In the meantime, he has switched off the comment function to stop the fan rage.