The sparrows have been whistled from the roofs for days. Now it’s perfect: Christian Titz leaves 1. FC Magdeburg in the direction of Hannover 96, for him Markus Fiedler takes over.
It has been certain since June 15 (June 15): Christian Titz is no longer a coach of 1. FC Magdeburg, for him Markus Fiedler, previously coach by VfB Stuttgart II. Both trainers still had contracts during their disposing clubs. Nothing is officially known about flowed transfer sums.
Fiedler takes over the helm
The 39-year-old trained the Swabian second representation since 2023, rose to the 3rd league and recently made relegation. Before that, he trained various youth teams from the Cup winner from the Neckar. To his change, Fiedler said: “The farewell from Stuttgart is incredibly difficult for me. I was able to experience ten wonderful years with this great club. When the request came from Magdeburg, it quickly became clear to me that I would like to take this chance.”
Two years ago, Markus Fiedler trained VfB II in the regional league. Now he is supposed to fill out the great footsteps of Christian Tititz at the 1st FC Magdeburg in the 2nd Bundesliga.
On June 23, Fiedler is scheduled to lead the first training session of the Elbestädter. Otmar Schork, Managing Director Sport of the FCM, said on Sunday: “Markus did an excellent work at VfB Stuttgart for a few years and had young, talented players in a targeted manner. Together we want to continue to successfully design the future of our FCM in the team.”
Titz goes to Hanover
Titz changes to league competitor Hannover 96. The 54-year-old receives a two-year contract with the “Red”. Assistant coach André Kilian also goes to Hanover. The FCM announced this in a press release.
Christian Titz will be seen more often on the Hannover 96 bench. The trainer signed a two-year contract with the Lower Saxony.
“I am grateful that I have been given the trust and responsibility to take over the coaching position at Hannover 96. Now I am very excited to meet the team and the team around it, and I look forward to the city and the people in the area of the club, which we want to integrate and take from the start on our way together,” said Titz.
Schork: “It was a neck hit”
Via Titz ‘departure had been speculated since the end of the season. Three days after the last second division matchday, Schork had the Change request of the successful coach. “The coach came up with the desire to make a change. I can’t yet say whether the coach stays,” said the 67-year-old at the time.
In February 2021, Schork had poured the Elbe and has been forming an unshakable duo with him-not least in the spring of 2024, when the second division class maintenance wobbled, the atmosphere in the area was on the brink, but the sports director consistently strengthened his trainer. It is hardly surprising that Schork now confessed in the course of the football teacher’s surprising initiative: “I deal with it professionally. Personally, it was hard to hit me. It was a neck strike.”
Success duo of the past few years at FCM: coach Christian Titz (left) and sports director Otmar Schork.
The shared experiences remain, Schork said when announcing the change of coach on Sunday. The FCM’s managing director Sport, above all, described the cohesion in the team and in the coaching team as “exceptionally good”. This was also crucial that “we kept calm even in difficult phases and continued to work on the matter”.
May 2022: Christian Titz caught the master trophy of the 3rd league. Three years later, the FCM even knocked on the gateway to the Bundesliga.
Most successful FCM newspaper time Under Titz
Four years ago, the Mannheim -born Titz saved the sports club, which was stumbled in a sporty club, from falling into the regional league. In the shortest possible time, he missed the team an unmistakable, attractive offensive football trimmed on a short pass, with which the FCM then dominated the 3rd league and returned to the 2nd Bundesliga as a sovereign champion in 2022.
After two years of relegation battle in the Bundesliga Unterhaus, the blue and white mixed in the past season until the penultimate matchday in the promotion race in the past season. In the end The Magdeburgers landed in 5th place. Under Titz, the former European Cup winner experienced his most successful time since the turn.
Dirk Heyne, who spent almost his whole football life at 1st FC Magdeburg from 1967 to 1991, was also head coach of the blue and white from 2003 to 2007.
Only Heyne and Härtel outdo Totitz
For the 54-year-old, who previously stood on the sidelines at Rot-Weiss Essen, Hamburger SV and FC Homburg, it was personally the longest head coaching station in the professional sector. He was in office exactly 1,581 days. After the reunification, the Magdeburg chief post only had two coaches-club legend Dirk Heyne (1,692 days, April 23, 2003 to December 9, 2007), who almost missed the first second division climb of the FCM in 2007 and Jens Härtel (1,596 days, July 1, 2014 to November 12, 2018), which then the march from the regional league to the 2nd league should succeed.
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