Timo Schultz new coach of football team VfL Osnabrück

Schultz was presented on Tuesday at the “purple and whites”. Born in East Frisia, after a turbulent year, including three coaches (Uwe Koschinat, Pit Reimers and Antwerp) and the almost relegation into the regional league, the traditional year in the regional league is to lead.

“I know the VfL very well from my active time as a player, no other club has played more competitive games. Since I was a coach, the paths have crossed each other several times in the offspring and in the license area,” said the 47-year-old football teacher, who signed his contract with VfL on Tuesday afternoon. “I really feel like the task at VfL.”

“We are convinced that with his personality, with his expertise and his football style, it fits VfL, our team and the bridge.”

Michael Welling

VfL managing director Michael Welling said: “After the Separation from Marco Antwerpen We created the profile of the new trainer and discussed it with Joe Enochs and sharpened when it was clear that he would become a new director. On this basis, we dealt intensively with Timo Schultz, and so we were able to do all the conversations together. We quickly found that the respective ideas of football coincide and there is also an interpersonal basis. We are therefore very pleased that we were able to win Timo Schultz for VfL. “

Sports director Enochs: Schultz stands for attractive football

This was also confirmed by VfL sports director Enochs: “Timo Schultz fulfills our defined requirement profile – both with his competence as a football teacher and human. He has a variety of experiences in the young talent center and in the senior sector. With his previous teams, he stood for a football, which was characterized by a lot of dynamics, high running, tactical flexibility and intensive pressing was. “

Schultz is an absolute team player who can both develop individual players, according to Enoch: “We are happy that we were able to successfully bring the conversations with Timo to the end and that he is now our head coach.”

The coaching chair at VfL Osnabrück is a real ejection seat. More than 20 trainers have been sitting on the bench near Lower Saxony since 2000.

Schultz started his coaching career in 2011 in the youth area of ​​FC St. Pauli. At the Kiezclub, for which he had previously played for six years, the football teacher from Wittmund became coach of the professional team in 2020. After two and a half years, “school”, as he is called, was released at the Millerntor.

This was followed by stations at the Swiss Club FC Basel and 1. FC Köln. Schultz took over the Rhinelander for the second half of the Bundesliga season 2023/2024, but could not prevent the descent. The “Effzeh” then ended the collaboration with the 47-year-old, who has been without a club since then.

VfL and Marco Antwerpen go separate paths. This was announced by the Lower Saxony third division on Friday.

Antwerp and Dröpper defend themselves against termination

Schultz succeeds Antwerp at VfL. The 53-year-old and his assistant coach Frank Dröpper had been released despite the relegation. According to matching media reports, there are said to have been massive atmospheric disorders between the team of coaches and parts of the team.

Antwerp was no longer helping that he had led the “purple whites” to remain a league from an almost hopeless situation. Both the 53-year-old and Dröpper have submitted a legal action for dismissal, so that their discharge may have a legal aftermath for the traditional club.

For 21 years Joe Enoch’s player and coach at VfL Osnabrück was already a player and coach. Now the traditional club is bringing the American back as director of football.

After a disappointing year, VfL is reorganizing in the 3rd division. Three key positions are newly filled.